The Quack Files: Do Not Engage

THE QUACK FILESVolume I-Do Not EngageMark Quackenbush was identified before hewas old enough to understand what washappening to him.While other Children learned routines,Quack learned people.Patterns fixed themselves in his memoryAfter a single exposure. Pain barely slowedhim. Observation became instinctive enoughThat blending in often mattered more thanbeing noticed at all.Long before Laos, men inside the Americanintelligence world quietly began shapingthose abilities into something useful.By seventeen, Quack is operating inside theCIA's hidden war in Southeast Asia - a brutalworld of erased borders, covert killings, andmissions designed to disappear without record.Then an American reconnaissance team vanishesdeep inside a North Vietnamese controlled network.Quack is sent after them.Waiting in the jungle is Dmitri Volkov, a sovietoperative who understands something dangerous.The deadliest weapon is not violence.It's prediction.As Quack moves deeper into terrain engineeredto manipulate movement, timing, and decisionmaking itself, he finds himself hunted by an enemycapable of anticipating the way he thinks beforehe acts.Because the Agency taught Quack to solve problemsbefore they fully formed.And Volkov intends to turn that instinct against him.DO NOT ENGAGE: Volume I is a psychological ColdWar thriller about covert conditioning, hidden wars, andwhat remains of a person after they taught how tobecome useful.Perfect for readers of espionage fiction, psychologicalthrillers, covert operations novels, and morally complexspy fiction.Because the most dangerous men are never the fastest.They're the ones who understand the pattern beforeanyone else sees it.wor Read more