“It’s Anselm that’s out there.” Puck’s grin was wicked. “Would you want to be Cain right now?”
Harris literally and visibly shuddered. “A hurt and angry Anselm on the warpath? Fuck no.”
Raze frowned. “Is there something I should know about this Anselm of yours?”
Harris didn’t answer right away. “You and me, Raze? We’re the boogeyman to most people—bloodthirsty killing machines or whatever. We’re what most people have nightmares about.” He gazed out across the rubble. “Anselm? He’s what the devil himself has nightmares about.” Another pause. “And now he’s out for blood.”
Sneak Peek
SNEAK PEEK:
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Are you ready? This is it—really, really it—THE END of this series.
Alpha, Beta, Omega…
Harris, Thresh, Duke, Puck…
Lear…
And now, the stunning finale:
Anselm.
The breathless conclusion…the end of a nine-book series spanning more than five years.
Are you ready?
I don’t think I am. But here we go anyway…
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ALPHA ONE SECURITY: ANSELM
1: Knife in the Dark
It’s not so easy, to be a ghost.
To be hunted? It is even harder.
My name is not my own. My official birthdate? Belongs to a long-dead man. I have no credit score. No social security number. No birth certificate, no hospital records, no bank trail.
I do not exist.
In the world of black ops, of spies and secret agents, assassins and fixers and cleaners, this is not so unusual. To scrub a person from official records only requires the right access and a certain set of skills. My very good friend and brother-in-arms Lear can do it blindfolded, one-handed, and half asleep.
I am more of an anomaly: I have never existed.
Even the language I speak which most assume is my native tongue…is not.
Who am I?
I am Anselm See—last name pronounced Zay.
Spy, assassin, sniper, commando, ghost.
There are stories told of me in pubs and dive bars throughout the world, wherever those indoctrinated into this world of shadows and lies and blood gather after an operation to unwind. Some are apocryphal, some are factual, some are fictional, and I do not often concern myself with sorting out which is which. I do not care, mostly.
I have my brothers—Harris, Thresh, Duke, Puck, and Lear—and they are all the family I need. All I have, if you would like to know a piece of the truth. They have my back, and I have theirs. They do not know all the truth of me—no living person does…not even me.
I have been the hunter.
I have been the hunted.
This, though? The man hunting me, and the hunt itself…it is different, this time. He knows my ways, understands my methods. He has the support of Cain’s version of Lear, a master of digital detection guiding him.
And now, there is her.
Them.
I’ve stayed in the shadows my entire life. Never taken a lover for longer than a month. Never stayed in any one place longer than a week. I do not have a home—neither house nor apartment nor condo nor long-term hotel room. I do not own a car or a motorcycle, and while I have ID and passports and credit cards and debit cards, they are all fake, as easy to discard as an old T-shirt.
I did not want this—not for me, and certainly not for her.
Not for either of them, but especially not for Story. She is too young, too sweet, too innocent. Too much like the sister I once had, now thirty-five years in her grave.
Selah Binyamin is…something else. If I am a ghost on this earth, she is the spirit which haunts me. Familiar, yet unknown. I hear her voice and I see my mother, soft and wild and beautiful and sad. I see her move, and there is my aunt Ane, who danced careless and free in the white skirling cold of a Lapland snowfall and taught the serious child I was to smile.
Selah, whose past is as unlikely and tragic as my own, and her adopted daughter, Story—the embodiment of childhood sweetness and light; their lives are in my hands.
If Selah is to live, I have to find her, and rescue her.
If Story is to live, I have to stay alive, and I have to kill my enemies—of whom there are many, and one in particular who seems to know my every move.
I have to do it all with a seven-year-old girl in my care.
I have never doubted my skills—I was taught them from the time I could walk, after all. I have never doubted my place on this earth: I have always belonged in the shadows, at the edges of the dark. I am who I am—name and history be damned, I am Anselm See, and I am the knife in the dark which evil men fear, the bullet from afar seeking the blood of the wicked.
Now, I have moved into the light, and I have to become the savior. It is a role I am not prepared for, yet it is mine nonetheless.
Take my hand, Story; close your eyes and shut your ears—you do not want to see the blood spilled nor hear the screams of my victims, which are those who would do you harm.
Wait for me, Selah. When your captors begin to weep in fear, you will know I am close, for their death is at hand.
I am Anselm See.
And Cain? You have made a grave mistake, my friend.
It will be your last.
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