The Cipher Harvest: A Black Ops Technothriller

By Thad Cross

The U.S. Navy is for sale. And the Ghost Unit is the only bidder without a bankroll.

Living off the grid in a derelict warehouse in the Pacific Northwest, Val Sharma and her team of rogue operatives are officially dead to the world. They are the "Ghost Unit"-stateless, self-funded, and running on fumes.+2

When the team's threat-hunting algorithm detects a "Level 5 Signature" on the dark web, the nightmare scenario becomes real: a "Zero-Day" exploit capable of blinding the U.S. Pacific Fleet is up for auction. The seller is a shadow broker named Cypher. The buyer is the ruthless Cartel of the Coast, looking to turn the Pacific Ocean into a smuggler's paradise.+3

To stop the transfer, the team must launch a desperate, under-equipped heist inside a fortified data haven in Kyiv. But as Val bluffs her way through a room of warlords and Jalen battles mercenaries in the sub-basement, they discover the auction is a Trojan Horse.+1

The drive they are stealing doesn't just hold a weapon against the Navy; it holds the "Spectre Protocol"-a digital fail-safe designed to hunt down and erase the Ghost Unit itself.+1

Out of money, out of allies, and out of time, the team must survive a kinetic war in Ukraine only to come home to a new reality: their own network is trying to kill them.

The Third Option Series continues in this pulse-pounding technothriller where the most dangerous enemy is the one in your own server.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF1T89CX
• ISBN13: 9798242625921
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"