The Leverage Point

Marlo Hayes thought he’d left his past behind forever.
Seven years ago, CIA systems analyst Rob Thornberg helped topple a government using psychological warfare so precise it looked like an organic revolution. Now he’s a suburban project manager in Texas, married to the woman he loves, desperate for nothing more than a quiet life and a family.
But the past has a way of collecting its debts.
When a cryptic warning shatters his carefully constructed world, Marlo discovers that his greatest operational success was actually his most devastating failure. The Ecuador operation didn’t just eliminate a regime—it created the perfect conditions for America’s enemies to turn his own methods against him.
Now someone is systematically hunting his former team, using the very techniques Marlo perfected to destroy everything he’s built. Nina is dead. Elena is dead. The others are running for their lives. And the woman Marlo married? She’s been watching him for seven years, reporting every detail of his civilian life to handlers who are now debating whether to protect him or eliminate him.
Caught between Chinese intelligence seeking revenge and American agencies covering their tracks, Marlo faces an impossible choice: disappear forever and abandon the teammates who once saved his life, or risk everything on the most dangerous gamble in intelligence history—transforming his deadliest enemy into an unlikely ally.
Because sometimes the only way to survive the system is to change it completely.