Sea Spider

Book F of The Alphabet Series – 26 Letters, 26 Stories

The fluorescent lights of the Madrid station hummed, a low, persistent throb that usually blended into the background noise of clicking keyboards and hushed phone calls. Today, it felt like a physical pressure against Oscar Torres’ temples. He stared at the chron, the red numbers mocking him with the simple fact of Ethan Mitchell’s absence: 21 hours, 47 minutes. Twenty-one hours and forty-seven minutes since the last blip of signal from Mitchell’s secure phone. Twenty-one hours and forty-seven minutes since a ghost slipped through their fingers.

Mitchell hadn’t been a glamorous asset. No field ops, no charming informants, just a quiet, almost invisible presence in the IT support team. The kind of guy who fixed your printer without being asked, who knew the network inside and out, and who you only really noticed when something went wrong. Which, now, everything had. A seasoned agent, Oscar knew better. He had to investigate on his own.

The initial search revealed little—a meticulously clean departure, as if Mitchell anticipated a search. But a minor credit card transaction flagged by financial oversight led Oscar to Cape Town, to a beacon of luxury overlooking the harbor. It was a long shot, but Oscar needed someone to follow the trail, someone who could operate outside the established channels. Fiona Jones. A scalpel, dispatched when blunt force wouldn’t do.

Fiona’s arrival in Cape Town soon uncovered a connection to a former SVR agent, Igor Golubev, a player in a far more complex game than a simple missing person. As Fiona dug deeper, she stumbled onto evidence of a data breach, a compromised network, and a conspiracy that reached the highest echelons of power. The leak of Project Coriolis, a NATO project, would destroy the trust between Europe and the United States.

But in a world of shadows and deception, loyalties are fluid, and the lines between friend and enemy are blurred. As Fiona hunts for the truth, she finds herself caught in a web of betrayal, where every move is calculated, and every alliance is a potential trap. Sea Spider is a relentless thriller, a tale of espionage, conspiracy, and sacrifice, where the price of truth may be higher than anyone is willing to pay.

Sea Spider delivers relentless suspense, global intrigue, and a desperate race against time— an unforgettable chapter in The Alphabet Series.

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