Thriller Trilogy · Complete Series

The Harken Files

by A. R. Kestrel

Nora Harken reads people the way other investigators read evidence. A behavioral analyst with a career-ending failure in her past, she keeps finding threats in the places no one thought to look — except the one that's been closest all along.

Book 1

Blind Spot

A pharmaceutical whistleblower. Seventy-two hours to testimony. A security team with a mole inside it. And a network of former intelligence contractors who specialize in making problems disappear.

"She was hired to find the threat. She wasn't told it was already inside."

Book 2

Cut Out

The shadow network has gone dark. Then an old case surfaces — a defense contractor executive who died in a car accident. It has Blackvine's fingerprints on everything except the evidence.

"The network didn't disappear. It was designed so you'd stop looking."

Book 3

Dead Ground

Nora finally has names. But the trail leads to someone who stood in her briefing room twelve years ago — when four of her colleagues were killed in what was ruled her failure.

"The hardest threat to see was standing in the briefing room."

About A. R. Kestrel

A. R. Kestrel writes thrillers about the people who work in the spaces between agencies — where the rules are flexible, the oversight is thin, and the wrong piece of knowledge can get you killed. The Harken Files follows Nora Harken, a behavioral analyst who reads people the way other investigators read evidence, and keeps finding threats in the places no one thought to look.

When not writing, Kestrel can usually be found reading declassified case files for fun, which probably says enough.

The Harken Files

Blind Spot

Cut Out

Dead Ground

About A. R. Kestrel

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