Circuit Breaker

Cal Marsh spent thirty years keeping other people alive — a small-town cop turned force-protection man turned corporate security director, the professional who decides how and never where. He was good at being invisible. He was better at being expendable.

Then an engineered collapse hands a radical political movement the pretext it has been waiting for, and a dying executive presses a red folder into Marsh's hands at a burning airfield. Inside it: proof that Black Monday was no accident. Proof that could still hang a government — if it reaches a federal judge five hundred miles north, up the blacked-out spine of Appalachia, through a country that has learned to watch everything.

But the new America runs on data now. Green tables and friendly chimes. Cameras that count you. A machine that doesn't hate you — it just adds you up. And somewhere between Charlotte and the Shenandoah, the machine and the government stop being two things.

To get the truth north, Marsh will spend everything: a network of strangers who ask nothing and give everything, a cache of hard-won tradecraft, and finally the one thing he swore he'd never be again — the man who comes through the door instead of standing outside it.