Broken Gates : Broken Gate

ONE DOOR. ELEVEN MINUTES. THREE MONSTERS.

Marcus “Mac” Cole spent twenty-four years in the Navy doing the rightthing. Now he drives a delivery truck, and his worst day is about to becomethe country’s worst nightmare.

When Mac props open a service door at a maximum-security federalprison—a shortcut he’s taken dozens of times to ease his badback—three inmates seize an eleven-minute window to execute ameticulously planned escape:

ELIJAH CROSS — MIT-trained hacker. Designed the escape withterrifying precision.
DARNELL “DEMON” BRIGGS — Four-time killer. The mostdangerous man to walk free in Virginia in twenty years.
DR. ADRIAN LOCKE — Former psychiatrist. A genius who can becomeanyone, earn anyone’s trust, and destroy anyone’s life without liftinga finger.

FBI Special Agent Nadia Voss leads the manhunt. She’s brilliant,relentless, and haunted by the one fugitive who escaped her before. WhenMac is arrested and cleared, his guilt drives him to the FBI’s doorstepwith the only thing he has to offer: his knowledge of every road, route,and dead end in the Virginia corridor.

What Mac finds in the maps changes everything.

The escape wasn’t a jailbreak. It was the opening move in a conspiracyengineered by the former titans of the private prison industry—executives who were paid billions when the government bought out theircompanies but who lost something they valued more than money:power. Now they’re engineering chaos, manipulating fear, and usingthree escaped inmates as weapons in a campaign to destroy thePresident’s prison reform program and rebuild their empire.

As the manhunt escalates from a Virginia pursuit to a national crisis,Mac and Nadia uncover a conspiracy that reaches from abandoned federalfacilities to the halls of Congress—and a plan that targetssomething far more devastating than a prison break.

They bought the prisons. They bought the politicians. Now they’rebuying the chaos.

BROKEN GATE is the explosive first volume of The Broken GatesTrilogy—a thriller in the tradition of David Baldacci, LeeChild, and John Grisham. For readers who love relentless pacing,morally complex characters, and conspiracies that feel terrifyinglyreal.

Approximately 88,000 words. Volume 2, BRIDGE TO NOWHERE, comingsoon.