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The First Fracture
Paperback
Series: Black/Line
Publisher: Michael Lavelle Jr
Published: Sep 7 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
BLACK/LINE: THE FIRST FRACTURE
Four operators. One extraction. A conspiracy far larger than any of them expected.
Daniel, Mike, Sofia, and James are among the best operators in the world-four specialists who have spent years learning how to move as one seamless unit. Daniel is the disciplined leader. Mike is the breacher whose humor masks years of buried grief. Sofia is the signals expert who can see patterns nobody else can. James is the ghost: a reconnaissance specialist who can disappear into darkness before anyone realizes he's gone. Together, they are an exceptionally effective team-and four people who barely know one another beyond the battlefield.
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Their latest assignment takes them into the hunted port city of Kandar, where they're sent to extract Dr. Adrian Vale, a forensic accountant caught inside what initially appears to be a corporate security crisis. But the first moments of the operation reveal something is profoundly wrong. The dead were killed hours before the team arrived. Cameras have been deliberately positioned. The scene has been staged.
They weren't sent into danger by accident.
They were expected.
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As the team digs deeper, they uncover a financial network spanning corporations, governments, contractors, and covert operations. Sofia begins reconstructing the machinery behind it, expecting to find the organization ultimately controlling the money. Instead, she discovers something far more disturbing: there is no final recipient. The system isn't simply funding a hidden organization. The system itself is the weapon.
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And someone knows the four operators intimately.
Their tactics. Their histories. Their weaknesses. Their instincts.
The deeper they investigate, the more their own pasts become part of the conspiracy. James discovers that something buried in his former identity may have provided the enemy with access to the team's most sensitive history. Daniel begins questioning what his people have kept from him. Mike's personal grief turns the investigation into something dangerously close to revenge. Sofia is forced to confront a truth that threatens to destroy the assumptions holding the entire operation together.
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For years, the four of them trusted one another completely when the shooting started. But trust inside a firefight is different from trust between people.
And that difference is where the fracture begins.
BLACK/LINE: THE FIRST FRACTURE is a gritty military conspiracy thriller about loyalty, buried identities, corporate power, and the terrifying machinery operating behind the world's visible conflicts. It's the story of four highly trained professionals discovering that the enemy doesn't necessarily need to defeat them in combat.
It only needs to make them stop trusting each other.
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