The Soft Target: The Haven Protocol - Book One
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
Series: Book 1 of 1 - The Haven Protocol
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- Title
- The Soft Target: The Haven Protocol - Book One
- Author
- Cern, Darren
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193477228
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: The Haven Protocol
The numbers didn’t lie. They just didn’t talk. Insurance investigator Brandon Keeling has spent eleven quiet years dismantling fraud one spreadsheet at a time — until a Tacoma warehouse fire exposes a discrepancy so precise, so engineered, it couldn’t be an accident. When he circles a customs weight mismatch in blue pen, he unknowingly steps into the crosshairs of a criminal network that eliminates problems before they become threats.
From the moment Brandon receives a midnight call — “You should have shredded the Hartwell file.” — his life detonates. Two masked men break into his home. His daughter Mia is nearly abducted. And the only reason they survive is the intervention of a stranger who moves with the lethal calm of someone who’s done this before.
His name is Mark Waverly — former federal operator, now part of a covert, off‑books tactical group known only as Haven. Waverly sees what Brandon refuses to: the Hartwell Logistics case isn’t fraud. It’s a pipeline. A shell-company labyrinth. A smuggling architecture. And Brandon’s discovery has triggered a response from the Novak Network — a syndicate that doesn’t bluff, doesn’t warn twice, and doesn’t leave loose ends alive.
Brandon freezes the night the men come for Mia — a failure that costs him custody, safety, and the illusion that his life is ordinary. Determined never to freeze again, he enters Haven’s brutal training program: pressure simulations, tactical drills, counter‑surveillance, and the psychological rewiring required to function under lethal stress. He fails constantly. He improves slowly. And when the Novak Network escalates — tailing him, stalking Mia’s school, and killing a Haven intelligence officer — Brandon volunteers for the operation he’s nowhere near ready for.
Because the danger isn’t waiting for him to become ready.
The Soft Target is a relentless, character-driven thriller about an ordinary man forced into extraordinary danger — a story of fear, failure, grit, and the slow, painful construction of a new self. It blends the forensic intrigue of Reacher, the tactical realism of Terminal List, and the emotional stakes of Taken into a grounded, high-velocity narrative.
Brandon Keeling wasn’t built for violence. But violence has decided he’s part of the equation.
And Haven doesn’t let its people face the dark alone.
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