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The Silent Directorate
Paperback
Series: A Tom Harrington Novel, Book 2
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ISBN10: 1966785038
ISBN13: 9781966785033
Publisher: Gypsy Press
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781966785033
Publisher: Gypsy Press
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The war is just the cover story.
It's 2002, in the opening years of the Global War on Terror. When an American journalist is taken hostage inside a remote Afghan fortress, Britain and the United States launch a joint covert mission to bring her home.
British agent Tom Harrington-operating under military cover-is assigned to lead the assault into the mountains of northern Afghanistan. The mission is supposed to be precise. Contained. Plausibly deniable.
It goes catastrophically wrong.
As the operation unravels, Tom uncovers fractures in the intelligence picture: conflicting briefings, buried agendas, and a CIA presence far too invested in the outcome. What begins as a hostage rescue becomes a trail of betrayal leading from Whitehall briefing rooms to forward bases in Afghanistan, Mediterranean ports, shadowed villas, and diplomatic back channels.
Someone wants this chaos.
And someone is profiting from it.
In The Silent Directorate, Tom follows the evidence beyond rogue operatives and battlefield mistakes to a hidden architecture of power: an organization that manufactures instability, manipulates regime change, and operates beyond nations and flags.
For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron, Daniel Silva, and grounded espionage thrillers, A. G. Soares's The Silent Directorate is a psychologically driven spy novel about covert wars, institutional betrayal, and the moral cost of confronting power that was never meant to be seen.
The deeper Tom digs, the clearer it becomes that exposing the truth may not save him.
It may turn him into the very thing he is hunting.
Join Tom Harrington-and discover why some secrets are worth starting a war over.
As the operation unravels, Tom uncovers fractures in the intelligence picture: conflicting briefings, buried agendas, and a CIA presence far too invested in the outcome. What begins as a hostage rescue becomes a trail of betrayal leading from Whitehall briefing rooms to forward bases in Afghanistan, Mediterranean ports, shadowed villas, and diplomatic back channels.
Someone wants this chaos.
And someone is profiting from it.
In The Silent Directorate, Tom follows the evidence beyond rogue operatives and battlefield mistakes to a hidden architecture of power: an organization that manufactures instability, manipulates regime change, and operates beyond nations and flags.
For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron, Daniel Silva, and grounded espionage thrillers, A. G. Soares's The Silent Directorate is a psychologically driven spy novel about covert wars, institutional betrayal, and the moral cost of confronting power that was never meant to be seen.
The deeper Tom digs, the clearer it becomes that exposing the truth may not save him.
It may turn him into the very thing he is hunting.
Join Tom Harrington-and discover why some secrets are worth starting a war over.
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