The Operative and the Analyst
Paperback
Publisher: Pixie Publishing
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Olivia Hale has spent five years analyzing systems for one of Washington's most powerful intelligence contractors, keeping her head down, following protocol, and never asking questions no one wants answered.
Then she notices a pattern she can't explain.
At first, it looks insignificant. A handful of irregularities buried inside routine infrastructure data. But the deeper Olivia digs, the more the inconsistencies spread across programs, agencies, and classified networks that were never supposed to intersect.
By the time she realizes what she's uncovered, it's already too late.
Now under investigation by the very institutions she once trusted, Olivia finds herself trapped inside a machinery built to erase problems before they become public.
The only person positioned to determine what happens next is Cameron Barrett, a covert operative trained to identify threats long before they fully emerge. But as the operation around Olivia escalates, Cameron begins to recognize something far more destabilizing than a security breach:
She's telling the truth.
As institutional pressure closes in, Olivia and Cameron are pulled into a hidden war fought through perception, narrative, and control, where power survives not by remaining innocent, but by rewriting reality faster than anyone can expose it.
And once the system decides the truth is dangerous, the people who can see it become dangerous too.
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