Under Review: An Authentically Dark International Espionage Thriller

A Brussels investigator disappears. The people who should find him have no intention of looking.When a field investigator vanishes while tracing a human-trafficking route through the Netherlands, former intelligence operator Dominic Carlisle is asked to find out what happened.The official channels have already decided there is nothing to investigate.Carlisle operates differently.His off-book team is made up of former analysts, handlers and field operators-people who know how institutions work, where they hide their mistakes, and what happens when someone becomes inconvenient.The trail leads from a warehouse outside Rotterdam to a Customs officer taking the wrong kind of money, a logistics broker who answers to a voice he has never met, and a phrase that has begun appearing in places where people subsequently disappear: Under review.Carlisle wants to know who uses the phrase.More importantly, he wants to know what happens to the people who end up under it.Because this is not simply a trafficking investigation. Someone is protecting the operation from above-and the closer Carlisle gets to the truth, the more obvious it becomes that the people running it have already identified him as a problem.For readers who like Mick Herron, Daniel Silva and intelligent international espionage thrillers where the conspiracy reaches inside the institutions meant to stop it.