Radiant Sentry - Paperback

by Charles Wayne (Author)

MAJOR WILL MORGAN is a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC) at Fort Meade. Will leads the Army's most elite and unconventional CI team - an unyielding taskmaster with a sharp mind and a loyal heart. His life is the mission.

As the global race for space supremacy escalates, the U.S. stands at a crossroads. Rivals like Russia and China are pouring resources into militarizing space. Russia's latest threat: a nuclear-powered, space-based anti-satellite system capable of disabling America's satellites via electromagnetic pulses -jeopardizing everything from missile defense to communications.

DARPA, "the Pentagon's brain," has quietly launched a Space Superiority Initiative to counter the threat. But when the CIA's deep - cover mole in Moscow transmits a classified DARPA document suggesting a Russian mole embedded within a top defense subcontractor, panic ensues.

The Pentagon assigns Will and his team to lead the most critical counterintelligence investigation of their careers. The mole must be found-and fast. The order is clear: No limit on resources. No margin for error.

As Will assembles his team, including DEREK WILSHIRE, an Asperger's-diagnosed mathematical savant with a genius for patterns and encryption, the CIA intercepts a second Russian document. This one suggests the space system may already be compromised. Derek confirms the worst: the mole has access to DARPA's most sensitive files.

The investigation quickly narrows to three lead physicists - all brilliant, all deeply embedded. The pressure intensifies as the team races to expose the traitor. But the truth is even more dangerous: the mole is a double agent, protected by the FBI.

Just as the net tightens, U.S. Space Command confirms the unthinkable-a Russian killer satellite has destroyed one of America's retired satellites in orbit. The system works. The U.S. declares a Dark Sky alert. Space is now an active warzone.

In a last-ditch effort to slow Russia and buy DARPA time to respond, Will's team launches a bold countermeasure: using the FBI double agent to feed disinformation back to the Russians, sending their program into disarray. The move buys precious time as DARPA races to deploy a leapfrog defense.

But the cost is high, and the clock is ticking.