The streets made Chris "CL" Lee. Now the CIA wants to own him.
After the job that turned a Brooklyn-born hustler into a target, Chris has two choices: go back to the life that almost killed him, or step into a world where the rules live in classified files and one mistake ends in a body nobody claims. The Agency makes him an offer. One exchange in Amsterdam. A drive no one else can deliver. Fifteen million dollars on the table.
Nothing the CIA gives is free. A rain-slick night in Amsterdam turns into a chase. A debrief turns into seventy-two hours in an interrogation room. And Chris learns the Agency was never hiring a courier. It was building a pawn, a player valuable enough to get inside Death Net, the dark-web marketplace where secrets, weapons, and lives are bought with an untraceable coin called Vanguard.
But pawns don't stay pawns once they learn the board. With Uno at his side and Monica running the numbers, Chris turns six million dollars into a quiet empire, and the people who thought they were using him start to wonder who is really making the moves.
The past won't stay buried either. Joey Leyva takes command of his father's cartel. A woman they call the Queen steps out of the shadows. And a secret kept since 1998 finally comes to light.
Moving between the SEAL selection course, the birth of the crew, and the night everything started, A Fine Line, Volume Two: Origins is where the hustler becomes a power player in a world dirtier than the streets ever were. When the call finally comes, Chris heads for Monaco and Uno heads south into a cartel war, two separate wars that don't yet know they belong to the same world.
Book 3 in the Uniq-Verse Earth 1 saga.