The Lithium Protocol

The Aegis Directive — Book Three

Six weeks after the events of Silent Mandate, a single word lands on Caleb Vale's secure phone. Lithium. His wife found it first. From a converted office off the kitchen in Flathead Valley, Montana, Elena Vale has spent six weeks tracing customs ledgers out of the Port of Antwerp. The variance is small. The pattern is patient. And the cover routes through a Christian foundation she recognizes — Cornerstone — built by her husband's younger brother, Daniel Archer Vale. From Frankfurt to Whitefish to the Kazakh steppe, Vale and his team race a patient adversary whose architecture stretches from a Pavlodar processing facility through Vienna confessionals to the cold fingerprints of a 1983 Beirut wire transfer that Mossad has been hunting for forty-three years. The target was never industrial. The target was always Gabriel. This time, the war is older than the Architect.