Red Scorpion: Rising : Third Novel in the Jack Kendall Series

The final chapter of the Jack Kendall series — and the most explosive yet.Jack Kendall is home. After hunting killers across Portugal, Taiwan, and the blood-soaked streets of Okinawa, the Marine veteran and cyber troubleshooter is ready to set everything down — hold his grandson, find peace, and fly to Basel to be with the woman he loves. But the world has other plans.In Beijing, an ambitious Finance Minister named Hai Ming seizes the Chinese Presidency — and with it, orders the long-threatened invasion of Taiwan. In Budapest, the ruthless ex-KGB hacker Dimi Zosh plots to steal twenty-five billion dollars in Bitcoin from the Green Kyoto blockchain. In the shadows of Tiananmen Square, a ghost known only as Yellowslayer deploys elite Komodo kill squads across three continents. And somewhere deep in the Australian outback, the NSA's most dangerous secret — a team of deep-cover operatives codenamed Red Scorpion — is finally activated.As Chinese warships close on the Penghu Islands, invisible bombers cross the Gobi Desert, and a cryptocurrency heist unfolds inside a Taipei hotel conference room, Jack's daughter Regina races through Okinawa hunting a Russian hacker — while discovering that the enemy she thought was dead is very much alive.From the NSA's classified listening post beneath the Australian outback to the USS Eisenhower in the South China Sea, from the streets of Shanghai to the rooftop bars of Taipei, Red Scorpion: Rising is a white-knuckle geopolitical thriller that weaves cybersecurity, military action, and human courage into a breathtaking final confrontation — where the line between war and peace dissolves, and one family must hold the world together.Written by a United States Marine Corps veteran and 28-year cybersecurity professional, this is fiction grounded in the real technologies and real tensions of our time. The courage is not fictional. Neither is the threat.Book 3 of the Jack Kendall Series— the thrilling conclusion following Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon and Shores of Okinawa.A portion of the proceeds benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.• Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4w8Prws