The Guardian Protocol

Every fifty seconds, fourteen hundred watches transmit a pulse to a satellite constellation. Position. Heart rate. Blood oxygen. Encrypted.

Except they're not.

Kurt Bauer built the Guardian - a smartwatch designed to protect the world's most powerful people. Heads of state. NATO commanders. Corporate leaders. The Pope. Four generations of Swiss watchmaking precision, married to military-grade satellite communications. His name is on every dial.

Then his chief engineer discovers a phantom signal. A duplicate transmission, firing 0.4 seconds before each satellite handshake, broadcasting raw biometric data on an unencrypted frequency. Every Guardian on the planet has been compromised. Every pulse is a targeting package.

And the engineer has vanished.

In a compound east of Amman, a man with a list of one hundred and nine names is already using the data. In the Vatican, a monsignor with two phones walks an ancient corridor at dawn, waiting for instructions. In Geneva, Munich, Rome, and The Hague, the dominoes are falling - and Bauer is the only person who knows the full geometry of what's coming.

To stop it, he'll have to go dark. No watch. No network. No allies he can trust. Just the skills he learned in five years of protecting the Pope - and a trail that leads from Swiss server rooms to Jordanian safehouses to the oldest corridors of power in the Western world.

THE GUARDIAN PROTOCOL is a precision-engineered thriller about surveillance, loyalty, and the distance between protection and control.

The first book in a new series.