Operation Hoplon: Weapons of War
The Joshua Booker Origin Story
Adopted. Abused. Anointed. Joshua Booker has faced it all.
As a young boy, Joshua Booker and his adoptive mother, Rachael, escape an abusive home and find refuge in rural Kentucky, where they are cared for by Joshua’s uncle and aunt, Samuel and Lucy Rutland. As Joshua grows, he realizes that the man affectionately known as “Uncle Sam” is far more than a farmer and consultant. His seemingly ordinary life is a façade masking his involvement with a covert, quasi-governmental group known as ACXN.
At 17, Joshua experiences three life-changing events that confirm his decision to follow in his uncle’s footsteps and join the Marines. Determined to make a difference in a post-9/11 world, Joshua sets his sights on special forces.
Years later, fate intervenes when Manning, a mysterious figure from Joshua’s past and Sam’s present, approaches Joshua with a proposition: join Sam on a mission to take down an arms dealer in Venezuela. At his uncle’s request, Joshua embarks on a journey that will test his strength, courage, and loyalty like never before.
Operation Hoplon: Weapons of War is a gripping tale of one man’s quest to find his place in a world under constant attack from unfriendly forces. With its pulse-pounding action, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes, this novel will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.
Operation Amphisbaena:
Two-Headed Serpent
A Joshua Booker ACXN Thriller - Book 2
When the German submarine U-133 sank in 1942, it carried a secret weapon. After almost 70 years of silence, could the weapon’s discovery lead to the unthinkable?
Joshua Booker thought Venezuela was the hard part.
Fresh off his first mission for ACXN — the off-the-books quasi-governmental operation that doesn't officially exist — Joshua is rebuilding. Professionally, that means a full team. Personally, it means a house on Rachael’s Ridge and something that might finally look like a normal life. Then a listing appears in the deepest corners of the dark web. A binary weapon of German origin, created during World War II, capable of killing hundreds of thousands. The seller is running a blind auction with a deadline no one can afford to miss.
With his team barely trained and his refitted super-yacht Storm Horizon days from ready, Joshua must move fast. The initial trail leads to a sunken U-boat off the coast of Greece and to a salvage diver who found something he shouldn't have — and paid for it with his life.
ACXN can try to buy it. They can try to steal it. But if the clock runs out, thousands will die.
Operation Amphisbaena: Two-Headed Serpent is the second Joshua Booker ACXN Thriller — a race across continents that asks one terrifying question: what happens when a weapon the world forgot is remembered by someone who wants to use it?
Operation Ochetós:
River of Souls
A Joshua Booker ACXN Thriller - Book 3
Some enemies choose ideology. Some choose profit. The ones who choose profit are the hardest to face.
Joshua Booker has a finished house, a balcony above the river, and something that finally looks like a normal life. Then Manning calls.
A nineteen-year-old American student has vanished from an ecology program in the Panamanian jungle. She was taken in four minutes of darkness from a river pier while her classmates climbed off a boat just feet away. Her father is a United States senator. The embassy has classified it as a voluntary departure. Nobody seems to be interested in finding her.
Now, Joshua is looking.
The trail leads from the Darién Gap in Panama to Venice, Italy —from the dark web to a network that doesn't move people north; it moves them across oceans to buyers, with flawless documentation and no forwarding address. What he finds is not a cartel or a criminal enterprise in any recognizable sense. It is a business. Run by people who trade in souls and still sleep well at night.
Finding the girl is only part of it. What Joshua carries home from the operation is something else entirely — a reckoning he doesn't discuss, doesn't file in any report, and can't leave undone.
Operation Ochetós: Pipeline of Souls is the third Joshua Booker ACXN Thriller — a story about what justice looks like when the law has already looked away, and the cost of being the man who decides to look again.