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Lateral Movement
Paperback
Series: Zero Trust, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday, Marcus Ghost Reeves breaks into a defense contractor's network looking for a payday. What he finds instead is MERIDIAN - a domestic surveillance program tracking forty-seven thousand American citizens. Journalists. Congressional staffers. Civil liberties attorneys. People who threatened the program's existence.
Some of them are dead.
Within seventy-two hours, Marcus is the most wanted hacker in the country. The FBI is building a case. Paladin Defense Systems has hired a methodical, relentless security chief named Derek Sato to find him. And a man named Colonel Harmon is offering a fifth option Marcus didn't know he had: join an off-the-books cyber operations team, or face prison.
There's a catch. The team's first mission is cleaning up Marcus's mess - and the people who built MERIDIAN will kill to protect it.
Marcus has always worked alone. He's never trusted a partner, never followed someone else's plan, never had to care whether his mistakes got other people hurt. Now he's the weakest link on a team of specialists who are risking everything on his intelligence - and his ability to stop being the person who got them into this.
The evidence is on three hard drives. The truth is in forty-seven thousand names. And the only way out is through a system that was designed to make people like Marcus disappear.
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