Grant Blackwood

 
Overview

Ghosts of the Past

Twelve years ago, Agent Briggs Tanner was sent into China to help strategic mastermind General Han Soong defect to the West. The escape went perfectly, until, somehow, the secret police interrupted them at the final rendezvous. Tanner barely escaped the country — but Soong and his family were arrested, and made to disappear…

Threats to the Future

Now, Soong has resurfaced. He’s contacted the CIA with the message that he is alive and must get out of China — and the only person he will trust is Briggs Tanner. But even as Tanner prepares to confront the chaos of his own past and once again go up against China’s brutal secret police, forces around the globe are watching him, waiting for the moment that will secure their power, lead the world to the brink of war — and seal Tanner’s fate once and for all.

“Briggs Tanner is coming back.”

 
Overview

One Man

Veteran covert agent Briggs Tanner never liked coincidences. In his business, they always meant trouble. So when a man is brutally and professionally assassinated right in front of him, Tanner wants answers.

One Mission

Why was the man killed? Who pulled the trigger? And what is the mystery behind the key the man clutched in his dying hand — the key that Tanner now possesses?

One War Without End

His search will lead him on an international trail of espionage — from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, through the bullet-ridden back alleys of Beirut, to a secret buried since World War II — a deadly secret that only Tanner can keep from falling into the wrong hands…

“Briggs Tanner is coming back.”

 
Overview

Dinaric Alps, Bosnian region of Austrian Hungarian Empire, 1918

Four Allied soldiers stumble across a biological weapon that could wreak devastation on the world — and take a vow to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Ever since, the deadly substance, code-named Kestrel, has been guarded by the descendents of those four brave men — each with the mission of keeping its existence a secret.

Chesapeake Bay, August 2003

The wife of former CIA director Jonathon Root has been kidnapped — and no one except Root himself knows who carried out the crime or why. His grandfather had been one of the soldiers responsible for stealing Kestrel — and now a group of Bosnian terrorists are trying to force Root to hand it over.

Enter agent Briggs Tanner. His mission: follow a trail through the Alps, to the heart of where it all began — before millions of lives are lost.

“Briggs Tanner is coming back.”