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Alpha Strike

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A new geopolitical alliance is spreading like wildfire—and it’s threatening to ignite a global crisis.

After years of confronting state-level threats from China and Russia, the United States and its allies now face something far more unpredictable: a powerful, shadowy syndicate forged between Mexican cartels and extremists in Africa’s Sahel region.

Their goal is simple—maximize chaos, reap profits, and tear at the seams of the liberal democratic order.

Harrison Kohl, Director of the CIA’s Special Activities Center, is handed a single directive from President Eleanor Cashman: dismantle the network at any cost.

But Kohl quickly discovers this enemy doesn’t play by familiar rules. Armed with cutting-edge weapons, cloaked by advanced operational security, and backed by billions in illicit funding, the syndicate is more than a threat—it’s a revolution in organized violence.

When conventional operations fail, Kohl is forced to make a desperate move: activate disavowed assets and launch an off-the-books campaign that could either destroy the syndicate or drag the United States into scandal—and defeat.

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David earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy. (That’s not a typo. He’s probably the only English major you’ll ever meet who took multiple semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, naval architecture, and weapons systems just so he could read some…

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