Command & Control : Selection - Command & Control, #1

August Cross lives by one rule: control everything.

As commander of MK-VECTOR, a covert CIA unit operating beyond conventional oversight, August is tasked with mentoring and evaluating Cameron Briggs, a promising civilian asset with access to influential circles that few operatives can penetrate. What begins as a controlled assignment soon spirals into something far more dangerous when a hidden network tied to trafficking, corruption, and international power brokers begins to emerge.

When Cameron and members of the MK-VECTOR team are abducted in Brazil, August is forced into a race against time. Joined by Cameron's brother Ethan Briggs, a former Marine Raider, August launches a desperate search across a landscape of criminal organizations, political influence, and competing intelligence interests.

As the captives struggle to survive confinement, interrogation, and psychological pressure, another battle unfolds behind the scenes. Dr. Carol Chin, a CIA behavioral specialist assigned to the MK-VECTOR program, begins uncovering evidence that the operation may have been compromised from within. Somewhere inside the intelligence community, a mole is feeding information to the enemy—and every discovery brings her closer to a truth powerful people are determined to keep buried.

Spanning Brazil, North Africa, Washington, D.C., and beyond, Command & Control: Selection is a military espionage thriller that blends covert operations, international intrigue, psychological tension, adult relationship dynamics, and gay male relationships into a story of loyalty, brotherhood, sacrifice, and the cost of command.

The first novel in the Command & Control trilogy, Selection begins a shadow war where trust is fragile, secrets are currency, and survival depends on knowing who to trust when the system itself may be the enemy.