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The Scout
Paperback
Series: The Hellhound Cycle, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 23 2025
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some wars never end. Some ghosts never leave. And some truths hunt a man harder than any enemy.
SSG Elijah Kane has spent his career on the edge of the map-JSOC-attached sniper, Ranger team leader, and the man they send when a mission needs to stay buried. But when a classified operation in Ukraine goes wrong and his teammate, CPL Miguel Rios, vanishes without a trace, Kane is left with a single question no one will answer:
What really happened out there?
Two years later, Kane is pulled into the resurrected Cerberus Program, an ultra-black directorate preparing a deniable strike team for a war that doesn't officially exist. The first call sign: Hellhound. The first commander: Kane.
But the deeper he steps into Cerberus-its erased facilities, ghost files, and surgically engineered operators-the more he realizes this isn't a mission. It's a pattern. A funnel. The same one that swallowed Miguel.
And someone is watching.
Fate. Conspiracy. Brotherhood. Betrayal.
As Kane leads a new generation of covert operators through selection, trials, and their first lethal deployment, he uncovers a truth engineered long before he ever pulled a trigger-and far more dangerous than the enemies he can see.
Some ghosts follow you.
Others wait ahead.
THE SCOUT launches The Hellhound Cycle, a gritty, relentlessly cinematic military-conspiracy thriller perfect for fans of Jack Carr, Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, Don Bentley, The Terminal List, and spec-ops psychological suspense.
High-stakes tension.
Surgical realism.
A brotherhood forged in silence and fire.
Welcome to Hellhound.
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