Red Horse
A cyber hacker in Tehran. A kidnapping ring older than the Cold War.
Tehran. Haleema Sheraz — by day a government cyber operative, by night a dark-web specter known online as Sirus — returns home to find her father vanished without explanation. The state machine she normally weaponises against Western targets is suddenly, pointedly, uninterested.
Her private investigation uncovers something far larger than a single missing man: a trafficking pipeline stretching back through Cold War black sites to Operation Paperclip and the bones of Nazi research. Meanwhile, her brothers slide toward an ISIS-inspired uprising tearing the country apart, and the rescue of a father becomes a fight to hold a family together.
On the other side of the firewall, Joe Bowen and Hugo Reese of Liberatus realise one of their most valuable assets is the hacker they have never met in person. Red Horse is a kinetic, Tehran-set cyber-thriller that fuses hard tradecraft with the slow-burn dread of the Dark Paradigm conspiracy.
Transmission · Excerpt"The police report said 'no suspicion of foul play'. Haleema read it twice and knew, with a hacker's certainty, that every line was a lie."
- ISBN
- 978-1916239753
- Released
- 2018
