The Adjacency Protocol (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Shaun Smit, 2026
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Paperback. CIA analyst Maya Zhao and NSA cryptographer Dr. Ethan Cross arrive in Malta for one week of nothing. No brief. No operation. No reason to be watching when a man dies on a harbor terrace on Day Three.But Maya was sixty feet away. And she saw the four seconds before he fell.Elias Voss was a financial architect. A quiet man who built shell company chains for people who needed their money to be somewhere it couldn't be traced. He was also nine days into a classified CIA debrief that Maya didn't have the clearance to know about, being run by a case officer she'd never heard of, on an island she'd chosen for her vacation by accident.The killing mechanism leaves no trace. The local authorities close the case in twenty-two minutes. A stand-down order arrives through legitimate channels, from real authority, faster than the institution can move under normal conditions.None of it is an accident.Someone in the highest levels of Maya's own agency knew three things simultaneously: the debrief was running, it was classified above her clearance, and she was on the island. The intersection of those three pieces of knowledge points to one position. One person. A mole operating not against the institution but through it - routing, not fabricating, which is far harder to prove and far more dangerous to expose.Maya and Ethan have no infrastructure, no clearance, and a wall on every official approach. They have each other, a legal pad, and eleven days to build something that can't be suppressed through the same channel that's already trying to stop them.The weapon left no trace. The evidence will have to build itself.The Adjacency Protocol is Book Four in the Maya Zhao & Ethan Cross Series - a standalone intelligence thriller that deepens the series' central arc. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Adjacency Protocol (Paperback)
- Author
- Shaun Smit
- Publisher
- Shaun Smit
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235291294
CIA analyst Maya Zhao and NSA cryptographer Dr. Ethan Cross arrive in Malta for one week of nothing. No brief. No operation. No reason to be watching when a man dies on a harbor terrace on Day Three.
But Maya was sixty feet away. And she saw the four seconds before he fell.
Elias Voss was a financial architect. A quiet man who built shell company chains for people who needed their money to be somewhere it couldn't be traced. He was also nine days into a classified CIA debrief that Maya didn't have the clearance to know about, being run by a case officer she'd never heard of, on an island she'd chosen for her vacation by accident.
The killing mechanism leaves no trace. The local authorities close the case in twenty-two minutes. A stand-down order arrives through legitimate channels, from real authority, faster than the institution can move under normal conditions.
None of it is an accident.
Someone in the highest levels of Maya's own agency knew three things simultaneously: the debrief was running, it was classified above her clearance, and she was on the island. The intersection of those three pieces of knowledge points to one position. One person. A mole operating not against the institution but through it - routing, not fabricating, which is far harder to prove and far more dangerous to expose.
Maya and Ethan have no infrastructure, no clearance, and a wall on every official approach. They have each other, a legal pad, and eleven days to build something that can't be suppressed through the same channel that's already trying to stop them.
The weapon left no trace. The evidence will have to build itself.
The Adjacency Protocol is Book Four in the Maya Zhao & Ethan Cross Series - a standalone intelligence thriller that deepens the series' central arc.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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