Return of the Black Flag

Some families inherit land. The Stryker’s inherited a war.Chance Stryker was raised on a dead father’s rules and a bloodline that has stood between the storm and the innocent since the night Blackbeard’s black flag came down at Ocracoke. Highland fighters. Carolina patriots who rode the lowcountry shadows with Francis Marion. Protectors when the innocent needed shielding. Predators when the guilty needed hunting. Chance learned the stories young, and not as folklore. As instruction.Now the woman he once loved has vanished into a basement in rural Maryland, and her father, a retired FBI counterintelligence man, is holding four binders that hostile governments would burn cities to recover: Soviet-era dossiers exposing a decades-long campaign to hollow out America from within.Chance does what Stryker’s have always done. He goes and gets her.The rescue leaves four professionals dead on Interstate 70 and drags Chance into the path of an enemy unlike any he has faced: a foreign contractor with sixteen shooters, a network buried deep inside American institutions, and a patient old man in Tehran who has spent eighteen years preparing his revenge. From a dawn battle on the consecrated ground of Gettysburg to a kill box in the shadow of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, every street becomes a firing lane, every camera a witness, and every hour brings the hunters closer to everyone Chance loves.Because this was never about the files. The enemy knows the Stryker name. They know the old debts, and the old wars that never truly ended. What they cannot know is what that name is about to cost them.They believe the Stryker line can be broken.They are about to learn that some families do not retreat from war.They inherit it.Perfect for readers of Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Jack Carr, Return of the Black Flag is a high-octane espionage thriller wrapped in three centuries of American history. Book One of the Black Flag series.