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The Matchbook
Paperback
Series: Matchbook, Book 1
Publisher: Jonathan\Finegold
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They needed his mind. The mission demanded everything else.
Seven years after his best friend Ben died in the North Tower, CIA cryptographer Alex Mercer still carries what was left behind: a friendship cut short, a future that never came, and a cheap paper matchbook that became the one thing he could never let go.
Now the Agency needs a codebreaker in the field.
A forgotten Soviet-era mainframe lies buried beneath Pakistan's Makran Range, and Alex is the only man who can unlock it.
But reaching it means going where a cryptographer was never meant to go: through brutal Navy SEAL training, into one of the world's most unforgiving landscapes, and alongside an elite team that has already written him off.
He's not an operator. He never will be. And every man on the team knows it.
To complete the mission, Alex must survive terrain that breaks trained men, confront the fears that have defined him since September 11, and earn his place beside a brotherhood that never believed he belonged.
What he uncovers inside that mountain won't just change the mission-it will change everything he thought he understood about himself.
The Matchbook is a high-stakes debut thriller about loyalty, loss, brotherhood, and the long shadow of a single September morning.
The relentless pace of Ben Mezrich meets the high-stakes suspense of an early Jack Ryan adventure.
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