The note was in his handwriting. The video was in his voice. Neither one of them was him.
Blackmailed into running America’s most powerful secret intelligence program by hostage videos she later learns were forged, a Homeland Security veteran traces the lie to a black-site prison holding the man she loves.
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A note on the kitchen counter, in his handwriting. No phone call. No conversation. Brock James, gone.
Months later Sam Jameson checks herself into a psychiatric hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has run out of ways to carry it.
She is also, as of six weeks ago, the most powerful intelligence officer alive.
Capstone has no charter, no oversight, and better access than the NSA and CIA combined. Sam took the chair because a dying spymaster named Artemis Grange showed her hostage video of two men she loved.
Grange has weeks left. He wants to correct the record before he goes.
The videos were manufactured. Composited faces, synthesized voices, half a second of lag hidden inside ordinary transmission delay. The technique is older than she is. It was not developed for foreign targets.
The note was manufactured too.
Which means Brock did not leave. Brock was taken, signed out of the Air Force by a general who does not exist, into a program that keeps men in shipping containers and writes nothing down.
Sam has a borrowed Gulfstream, a dying old man, one lonely field asset, and a hospital in Botswana with a locked north wing.
She has never been in worse condition to do any of this.
Book Ten in the Sam Jameson series. One complete story, opened and closed.
A dying spymaster coerces a Homeland Security counterintelligence veteran into taking over Capstone — an intelligence-fusion apparatus with no charter, no oversight and better access than the NSA and CIA combined.
The note on the counter was in his handwriting. He never wrote it.
Genre & Subgenres
For readers of Daniel Silva, Mark Greaney, Karen Cleveland and Chris Pavone.
Espionage & Conspiracy Thriller
An intelligence-fusion program with no charter, a rendition arranged through a phantom personnel order, a black site and an extraction. Run from inside the most powerful programme in the world by someone who was blackmailed into the chair.
Dual-Timeline Historical Conspiracy
Roughly half the chapters are 1971, third person, inside an MKUltra-adjacent programme in San Francisco. That strand has its own complete arc and its own ending, and no other book in the series has it.
Captivity & Rescue
The plot is an extraction. The narration is first person and present tense, framed as therapy sessions, written by someone who has run out of ways to carry it. A real departure from series norm.
The note on the counter was in his handwriting. He never wrote it.
She runs the most powerful intelligence program in the world. She is doing it from an inpatient ward in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The man who blackmailed her into the job has four weeks to live and one confession left in him.
A composited face, a synthesized voice, and half a second of lag hidden in the transmission delay. That was all it took.
Capstone has no charter and no oversight. Everyone who knows about it agrees it should not exist. Nobody shuts it down.
She runs the most powerful intelligence program in the world. She is doing it from an inpatient ward in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The man who blackmailed her into the job has four weeks to live and one confession left in him.
The Tropes Inside
Everything she was shown looked exactly like life. None of it happened. Neither did the handwriting.
He has weeks left and one piece of business outstanding: the woman he blackmailed into his job. Guilt and strategy look identical from the outside.
No charter, no oversight, no congressional committee. Everyone who knows about Capstone agrees it should not exist. Nobody switches it off.
A phantom signature on a routine reassignment order. That is the entire mechanism for making a serving American officer vanish.
Shared draft folders instead of sent mail, burners bought by the leg, SATCOM tracking, muzzle-flash discipline. The methods here are the working ones.
The face swap, the voice model, the half-second of lag hidden in the transmission delay. Explained plainly enough that you will look at your next video call differently.
Somebody had to arrange things on the ground. Somebody always does, and somebody always has their own reasons.
There was another candidate for the chair Sam never wanted. He took the news quietly and has had time to think.
You can work on a person for hours over a secret they were never given. It simply does not produce anything.
Real Reviews, Real Readers
“Right up there with James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and Frederick Forsyth.”
“It’s 5 a.m. and I just stayed up all night reading!”
“Sharp, extremely well written, and scary as hell!”
“Special Agent Sam Jameson is one very tough, gutsy lady… one of the best suspense/thriller books I have read in a long while. My new favourite suspense author.”
“I love this series… Love this smart mouthed, sassy, sexy agent. I hope her luck holds in future books!”
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Deep Fake - Sam Jameson Book Ten
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Great series. You will sit up all night reading!