The Scout

By Michael C Dixon

Some wars never end. Some ghosts never leave. And some truths hunt a man harder than any enemy.

SSG Elijah Kane has spent his career on the edge of the map-JSOC-attached sniper, Ranger team leader, and the man they send when a mission needs to stay buried. But when a classified operation in Ukraine goes wrong and his teammate, CPL Miguel Rios, vanishes without a trace, Kane is left with a single question no one will answer:

What really happened out there?

Two years later, Kane is pulled into the resurrected Cerberus Program, an ultra-black directorate preparing a deniable strike team for a war that "doesn't officially exist." The first call sign: Hellhound. The first commander: Kane.

But the deeper he steps into Cerberus-its erased facilities, ghost files, and surgically engineered operators-the more he realizes this isn't a mission. It's a pattern. A funnel. The same one that swallowed Miguel.

And someone is watching.

Fate. Conspiracy. Brotherhood. Betrayal.
As Kane leads a new generation of covert operators through selection, trials, and their first lethal deployment, he uncovers a truth engineered long before he ever pulled a trigger-and far more dangerous than the enemies he can see.

Some ghosts follow you.
Others wait ahead.

THE SCOUT launches The Hellhound Cycle, a gritty, relentlessly cinematic military-conspiracy thriller perfect for fans of Jack Carr, Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, Don Bentley, The Terminal List, and spec-ops psychological suspense.

High-stakes tension.
Surgical realism.
A brotherhood forged in silence and fire.

Welcome to Hellhound.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3YMW7F8
• ISBN13: 9798275434347
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"