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The BAG
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2025
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They wear their loyalty on their lapels-but trust is a currency that's running out.
When the Banded Association of Governments (B.A.G.) recruits nine rogue spies to dismantle the world's most shadowy empire, their only common ground is a lunch bag pin-and a target on their backs. From the carnage of Kabul's alleys to the glittering deceit of Rio's Carnival, this fractured team must outwit The Black Sun Syndicate, a cabal bent on stitching chaos into the global fabric.
Meet Wilford Tortilla Richardson, the wheelchair-bound strategist with a spine of steel, and Viktor Volkov, the Syndicate's faceless puppeteer known only as The Shadow. Between them stand a mosaic of outcasts: a vengeance-drunk Afghan brute (Dorito), a Brazilian seductress with a taste for neurotoxins (Honey BBQ), and a disgraced pilot (Pickle Chip) who's one firmware update away from burning his past to ash.
But the pins they wear-their lifeline-are more than symbols. They're trackers. And someone's selling their secrets.
As missions spiral from Berlin bunkers to Cape Town's underworld, the B.A.G. discovers the Syndicate's endgame isn't conquest-it's control. Of narratives. Of nations. Of them.
Who's the mole?
Can a spy trust the hand that feeds them poison?
And when the final chip falls, will any of them be on the right side of the rubble?
Trust is the currency. Betrayal is the cost.
In a world where allies bleed lies and enemies wear familiar faces, The Banded Association is a razor-edged thriller that asks: How far would you go to unmake a shadow?
(Coming soon-where every ally is a liability, and the only truth is the bullet that doesn't miss.)
P.S. Keep your lunch bag pin close. The Shadow is watching.
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