Book 2
The Dragon Roars Forward
The state actor that let them build it steps in to collect.
In development
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Book 1 / Coming 2027The Umbra
The Umbra
Circle
A Mexican diplomat is assassinated in London. Two museum founders follow the trail into a web of espionage and intrigue, and find The Umbra Circle: a secret network of politicians, financiers, and organized crime groups manipulating world systems for power and profit.
Washington, D.C. · London · Rome · Mexico City
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The circle
widens.
Book 3
The Condor Directive
An older, colder alliance of intelligence services wakes south of the equator.
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The Chronicles are fiction. The films and museum explore the real illicit markets and convergence themes that inform the narrative universe.
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