MANAGEABLE

She's not missing. She's exactly where she's supposed to be.

Dr. Nikki Munster came to the Central African Republic to save lives.

For eight months, she's run a remote medical clinic, treated the forgotten casualties of a brutal region, and kept her head down. Then a wounded stranger arrives carrying a secret he refuses to share.

Within days, everything changes.

A colleague disappears.

Armed checkpoints appear where none existed before.

And people who should have no reason to know her name begin watching her every move.

When Nikki's father realizes something is wrong, he doesn't call the authorities.

He calls Eddie Bracken.

Bracken isn't a soldier. He isn't an intelligence officer. He's a man with a rare talent for seeing the flaw everyone else has overlooked. What begins as a straightforward extraction quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Hidden beneath the violence and instability of Central Africa is an operation nobody is supposed to find, protected by powerful interests willing to do whatever it takes to keep it buried.

Getting Nikki out alive may be possible.

Discovering the truth could get them both killed.

As Bracken pulls on a thread nobody was meant to notice, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches far beyond one missing doctor, one remote region, or one criminal network.

Because some secrets aren't protected by walls.

They're protected by the belief that nobody will ever look closely enough to find them.

MANAGEABLE is the first Eddie Bracken thriller, a suspenseful international mystery filled with intelligent investigation, escalating danger, and a hero who wins with judgment rather than firepower.

The mission ends.

The questions are only beginning.