Jake Cogburn, code name Hondo, is the deadliest agent in the CIA's secret enhancement program. Designed to be the perfect killing machine, he's the program's greatest asset, and biggest secret, until the night he removes his tracker and disappears. Once he goes rogue, his handler and only friend, Mike Grant, has a big decision to make; hunt him down or delete all the information in his file, including his last known whereabouts.<br><br>Mike has always sensed there's something more to Jake than a mindless killer. He feels drawn to the secret assassin in a way he can't describe, and even though he's sworn an oath to his country, he feels his first loyalty is to his secret agent. Knowing there will be severe consequences, he does the best he can to assist Jake after he disappears, going rogue himself in order to help Jake get a head start.<br><br>But once he helps Jake, who will help him avoid the consequences of a rogue heart?

The Rogue Element

“Yeah, chief, everybody but me. I’m too valuable to them and they’re too afraid of what they’ve done to me. If they knew…well, I don’t want die. Not yet.”


What they’ve done to me.So he knew. Part of the process was to erase the memories of the surgeries, the drugs, and the conditioning. None of the agents in the special program knew they’d been given enhancements and elevated training. Each had signed a waiver when they’d entered the program, indicating they understood the terms and conditions, including the fact that who they were when they signed that piece of paper would no longer exist once they woke up. And that person would never exist again. The special program was designed to strip away individual humanity and turn them from a person into a weapon.


“Why are you telling me this now? Aren’t you afraid that I’d write this in the debriefing report?”


Chapter 3