It was supposed to be simple: a gala opening, a high-stakes client introduction, then dinner with the one person who still made the world feel steady. But before the night could even settle, bodies began to drop quietly at first, then all at once, and the rooms' glittering certainty curdled into panic. Something impossible was moving through the crowd. The pattern, the precision, the signature, they all pointed to the Vulcan, a serial killer who should have stayed buried. To chase that truth, Mace has to drag his own secrets into the light, and he can't afford what exposure would cost. Detective Anstice, sharp, relentless, and always one step too close, sees the fear he's trying to hide. So does his former FBI boss, a man with a grudge hot enough to burn down what's left of Mace's life. Then the killer shifts focus. The messages sharpen. The timing tightens. And when Mace realizes he's the next mark, he finally sees what's really happening and how little time he has before he's erased.

Dive into the thrilling world of Mace Franklyn, a character haunted by his past and driven by redemption. Follow his gripping investigation into a series of coed murders at the University of Michigan, where every twist and turn keeps you on the edge of your seat. Experience the suspense and political intrigue that make this literary fiction spy novel a must-read!

For some, religion is not faith at all; it is camouflage, a holy mask worn to hide a raw hunger for power. FJ Harmon based this, his first book, on a fictionalized character, Mukhtar Sheik Mohammed, who waswaterboarded eighteen times over five years at Guantanamo,has not forgotten, has not forgiven. He lives for revenge on every hand that broke him, every voice that mocked him, every nation that dared to humble him. Labeled the mastermind of 9/11, he waits as the political winds shift and a faltering prosecutor cracks open the door that should have stayed sealed. Welcomed back into the shadows by his mentor, Mukhtar learns to twist a Zionist's dread of peace into a weapon, stoking fear until it burns hot enough to power his retribution. And in the grip of that obsession stands his nephew, Jacob,born of an Israeli mother and a Muslim father,dragged toward a fate he never asked for, because he holds the key to Mukhtar nuclear plan.

Fj Harmon grew up  in the Detroit suburbs, raised by a single mother and driven early by the need to make something of what he’d been given.  He earned a BSEE from Lawrence Technological University, then spent the next 30 years in the Maryland-Washington, DC, corridor working in Information Systems Technology related to Naval and Strategic Intelligence.  In this world, details matter, and consequences can be measured in lives.  When he finally retired to the beach town of Southport, North Carolina, he did what he’d been itching to do for decades: he started writing.  That same year, the North Carolina Port Authority announced plans for a deep-water port on Southport’s Cape Fear River at a site wedged between a nuclear power plant and Sunny Point, a strategic arms depot serving the Middle East.  The premise was too explosive to ignore.  The result was his first novel, Revenge for What Is Sacred.  He followed it with Duplicity’s Child and Returning Fire, stories driven by the complex character Mace Franklyn, a man who seems to find trouble wherever he goes.