File 001 // Introducing Lee Briggs

Authority failed him.
Now he hunts alone.

When Delta Force operator Lee Briggs returns home for his brother's funeral, the official ruling is suicide. Briggs calls it wrong. What begins as a personal search becomes a collision course with rogue contractors, offshore money, and the power structure protecting them.

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1st SFOD-D BlackPine Falls, Maine Unauthorized Operation

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Series

Lee Briggs

Threat level

Severe

Status

Coming 2027

Mission overview // KILL AUTHORITY

A man outside the chain of command.

Briggs has spent his life operating under authority. This time, he has none.

The mission they never authorized.

Lee Briggs knows how to read a battlefield, spot a lie, and eliminate a threat. But when he comes home to bury his brother Lucas, nothing about the death investigation makes sense. The scene is too clean. The answers come too fast. And the local story falls apart the moment Briggs starts pulling at the edges.

The deeper he goes, the more the trail widens: a former teammate tied to a private military unit, offshore financial pipelines, foreign interests, and influential people who cannot afford exposure. To uncover the truth, Briggs must step away from official protection and hunt the network on his own terms.

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Core hook: "Briggs has spent his life operating under authority. This time, he has none."

Threat matrix // escalation

Every answer opens another front.

What starts as a suspicious death expands into a wider web of compromised loyalty, covert force, and protected corruption.

Contact point

A death that does not fit.

A brother buried too soon. A ruling Briggs does not buy. And the first indication that someone wants the questions buried with the body.

Compromise

Trusted assets become hostile.

As familiar names surface near the investigation, Briggs faces the worst kind of threat: operators who understand exactly how he thinks.

Expansion

The network reaches far beyond Maine.

Private military power, international finance, and political insulation turn a personal hunt into a conflict with global consequences.

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Author file // Kane Krieger

Modern warfare. Shadow operations. No easy answers.

Kane Krieger writes hard-edged military and espionage thrillers shaped by modern conflict, covert operations, geopolitical instability, and the pressure of incomplete intelligence.

His stories move through fractured command structures, high-risk decisions, and the machinery that makes contemporary conflict possible—surveillance, logistics, infrastructure, communications, and human judgment under pressure.

KILL AUTHORITY introduces Lee Briggs, a Tier 1 operator whose most dangerous mission begins when he no longer has official cover. The result is thriller fiction designed to feel immediate, tense, and disturbingly plausible.

Free illustrated briefing // Field Edition 02

THE ANATOMY OF A BLACK OP.

Explore the hidden systems behind modern covert operations—from command authority and intelligence to personnel, logistics, and oversight. A complimentary 16-page briefing from Kane Krieger.

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