The Protocol · A Gathering Storm (Robert Chase Novels Book 2)

Strange events are moving national agendas. In Europe, populist movements are insisting that all immigrants go home, and the politicians promoting these ideas are close to gaining absolute power. All they need is a helpful push, one that American industrialist Sweeney McAllister is quite willing to provide.

CIA officer Robert Chase has been living a dark and lonely life for twenty years. He trusts almost no one. The two exceptions are Reynolds Merrill, the man who recruited him to help save the world, and Samantha D’Aubrisson, the woman who loves him and does her best to keep him alive. Secrets abound in both their former lives, and they have had little free time in their short relationship to explore them. Work keeps them both too busy.

This time, work has, in a sense, found them. Chase makes a routine trip to Italy to observe a meeting between Andreas, the infamous hacker, and a suspicious Iranian middleman. That encounter raises immediate concerns, but Chase is more than happy to hand this case over to someone else. As he returns home to France, he stumbles upon the trail of one of the most dangerous and wanted criminals in the world, and this leads him into a dark world of political murder, blackmail, and a secret plan to dismantle democracies. Each step forward in the investigation opens another chapter more sinister that the one before it. And it’s not only Europe in McAllister’s sights. He hopes to change the balance of power in the United States as well.