Hunter

Operator Without a War

He walked into the Arlington DOD office on a Monday morning with a classified service record, a coffee he did not know how to order, and the names of eleven dead men tattooed somewhere behind his sternum. Ryder Callum has survived three combat deployments, two black-site extractions, and a classified operation that officially never happened — but he has never survived a performance review. Now General Aldric Callum, the only father he has ever known, has pulled every string available to place his best operator behind a desk, and Ryder cannot disobey a direct order even when the battlefield is a cubicle farm.