Led by Love of Country: Hard Reset (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798258177056)

THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. IT'S TIME FOR A HARD RESET.

Retired Command Sergeant Major Elias Thorne has spent a lifetime fighting America's enemies abroad, only to watch his own country surrender to corruption at home. He doesn't want to reform the system. He wants to reboot it.

In a coordinated strike of terrifying precision, Thorne and a hand-picked team of operators execute "The Great Release." Simultaneously hitting twenty-one federal penitentiaries, they deploy a non-lethal nerve agent to subdue the guards, incinerate the digital identities of three thousand inmates, and blow the gates wide open. The plan is brutally simple: Force the nation to wake up by bringing the struggle straight to its doorstep.

But chaos has a shareholder. Marcus Sterling, a billionaire defense contractor, didn't just predict the attack-he banked on it. As martial law descends and the economy collapses, Sterling's private army rises to monetize the fear, turning Thorne's revolution into a corporate hostile takeover.

Betrayed, hunted by the FBI, and watching the country teeter on the brink of civil war, Elias realizes he has one final mission. To save the nation he broke, he must assault the most secure estate on the East Coast and cut the head off the snake.

Betrayed and hunted, Elias's brother, Sean-a former Tier One operator-must navigate a burning nation to finish the mission. From the frozen ruins of Detroit to the corridors of power in D.C., Sean must answer the ultimate question: When you burn down the world to save it, do you deserve to survive the fire?

Written by a retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major (E-9) with nearly 30 years of service, Led by Love of Country: Hard Reset is a brutal, authentic, and terrifyingly plausible thriller about the price of freedom and the weight of the sins we carry.

AUTHENTIC TRADECRAFT: Features realistic depictions of Tier One tactics, from "Gray Man" surveillance to the use of thermal lances and chemical precursors.
A TERRIFYING PREMISE: Explores the "Great Release"-a scenario where the U.S. prison population is weaponized against the state.
UNFLINCHING MORAL COMPLEXITY: A harrowing, no-holds-barred look at the cost of justice and the consequences of sparking a war on your own soil.