When a bestselling but risk-averse London writer learns his field-medic sister has been abducted in a volatile river corridor, he flies out expecting to bargain and bluffs his way into a live-fire world he’s only ever imagined. Teaming with a swaggering ex–special ops fixer chasing the same target, he weaponizes paperwork, radio protocol, and raw nerve to outwit a rising warlord—proving he can be the hero he’s spent years writing.