Terminal Velocity : Afterburn

Terminal Velocity : Afterburn

David McGovern, a desk‑bound CIA analyst, stumbles onto a classified file that should never have existed—one exposing fabricated identities, erased operatives, and a covert operation spiraling far beyond U.S. control. When the discovery triggers a chain reaction of intelligence failures, David is pulled from the safety of Langley and thrust into a field assignment he was never trained for.

Posing as a criminal financier alongside his partner Maria, David infiltrates a Colombian guerrilla regime that has quietly overthrown its own government and repurposed U.S.‑supplied technology into a hidden empire of weapons, surveillance, and global manipulation. But the deeper they go, the more they realize the cartel’s ambitions extend far beyond drugs or power—they want nuclear weapons, and they have the infrastructure to use them.

When their cover begins to unravel, David and Maria are hunted through Bogotá and forced into a deadly race to stop dictator Santiago from deploying two stolen nuclear bombs. Betrayed by their own agencies, cut off from extraction, and surrounded by enemies who never blink, the mission becomes a brutal fight for survival.

In a final desperate gambit, David boards an escaping helicopter carrying the last bomb, confronting Santiago in mid‑air as the countdown ticks toward catastrophe. He prevents the detonation—but the fallout costs him his career, his identity, and the life he thought he was building.

Terminal Velocity: Afterburn is a relentless, high‑stakes thriller about deception, sacrifice, and the thin line between duty and survival—proving that the most dangerous enemy isn’t the one you chase, but the one you never saw coming.

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Chapters

1

The File That Shouldn’t Exist

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The Assignment That Changed Everything

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3

The Scene Behind the Glass

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4

Marked for Death

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Table for Four

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A Seat at the Table

7

The Price of Refusal

8

They Never Blinked

9

The Compound

10

Hidden Profits

11

The Real Business

12

The stolen Future

13

A Trade for War

14

The Conversation That Changed Everything

15

A Game of Survival

16

Housekeeping and Power Plays

17

The Weight of Power

18

Fear After Fire

19

The Deal That Could Change Everything

20

Returning to Reality

21

Silent Orders and Extraction

22

The Reckoning

23

The Fallout

24

The Approval and the Cost

25

The Landing

26

The Command That Moved Everything

27

Underestimation

28

The File That Changed Everything

29

The Waiting Game

30

The Return and the Reckoning

31

The Trap Springs

32

The Breaking Point

33

The Truth Unfolds

34

The Betrayal Unveiled

35

The Blood Price

36

The Final Offer

37

The Room of No Escape

38

The Mechanism of Destruction

39

The Blow That Ended the Questioning

40

A Flight Into the Unknown

41

The Drop and the Deception

42

The Walls Closing In

43

The Catastrophe Revealed

44

The Accusation That Changed Everything

45

A Way Out, A Way Forward

46

The Escape to War

47

The Drop Into the Unknown

48

Shackled in the Dark

49

The Beginning of the End

50

The Cost of War

51

A City on the Edge

52

The Cost of Survival

53

The Hunt Begins

54

Onboard the End

55

Ten Minutes to Live

56

Seven Minutes to Impact

57

Debrief

58

The Cost of Service

59

The World Reacts

60

Langley, Virginia

61

Addy’s Hidden Agenda

62

Browning Isn’t Here

63

The Ring That Changed Everything

64

The Link to Fire

65

We Leave the Ground

66

The House on Chesapeake

67

She’s Been Seen

68

The Marriage License

69

Flight Risk/ Intercept

70

Things Heat Up

71

Addy Breaks In / Out

72

The Trigger

73

Ghost Trail

74

The Missing Piece

75

The Doctrine of Fire

76

The Hero Trap

77

Friction Burn

78

The Fallout Trail

79

Detonation Point

80

No Survivors

81

Epilogue: Ledger