The SEAL Cypher Series

Former Navy SEAL John Klade thought he’d left the shadows behind. But when the families of his old teammates are murdered, each marked with a trident wrapped in a serpent, Klade uncovers a deadly connection to a mission the U.S. Navy insists never happened.

This is the second volume in the series. A year after The Leviathan, John Klade has gone off the grid. When a terrorist bombing in Athens leaves behind a phoenix symbol intertwined with the trident, Klade realizes the Brotherhood isn’t gone — it’s evolved. Yale Symbologist, Annabelle Johansson, now on a sabbatical and lecturing in Rome, is recruited by an EU counterterror unit to decode the symbol. She learns that a new sect — The Order of the Phoenix Tide — has risen, believing fire can “purify what the Deep cannot.

Months after the Phoenix Protocol’s collapse, catastrophic oceanic anomalies begin — mass whale strandings, sonar blackouts, ships disappearing.