BURNED

In the high-stakes sequel to Blowback, CIA counterproliferation officer Vanessa Pierson returns in Burned, a pulse-pounding thriller co-authored by Sarah Lovett and former undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. When a mission to capture the world’s most elusive arms dealer goes up in flames, Vanessa must navigate a labyrinth of international terror and internal betrayal where the price of failure is global catastrophe.

“The Enemy of My Enemy”

Vanessa Pierson has spent her career chasing Bhoot, the “ghost” of the nuclear black market. But the hunt is being sabotaged from within. When a key rendezvous at the Louvre ends in a devastating suicide bombing that kills her informant, Vanessa realizes her assets are being systematically eliminated by a mole hidden deep within her own agency.

As a militant group calling itself “True Jihad” claims responsibility for the carnage and threatens further attacks, Vanessa receives an unexpected contact from Bhoot himself. He denies the bombing and offers a chilling warning: a miniaturized nuclear detonator has fallen into far more radical hands—and even he doesn’t know who has it.