Jack Rourke writes lethal, stripped-to-the-bone action thrillers in the lone-operator tradition — stories about the men who work in the space between governments and grudges, and the price of having a code in a world that doesn't. His Eli Cross Files follow a fixer whose retirement keeps getting postponed by other people's sins. Rourke's chapters are short, his rounds are counted, and his mercy is limited.
The Eli Cross Files