CHARLIE ASTON

Sandpit Mercenary

SAS Commander Ben Jackson accepts a top-secret deniable contract to steal moisture-harvesting technology—the solution to a world where droughts trigger wars and billions face starvation.

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But when Jackson's plan goes wrong, the tech disappears into a deadly game of double-crosses between rival special forces.

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Now Arabian commandos, Australian SAS, and Chinese Black Ops are hunting the same prize, while Jackson's Wraith Mercenaries discover their employer may be playing all sides. Jackson is against the clock to recover the technology before desperate nations launch pre-emptive strikes to control water resources.

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The hunt explodes across two continents: futuristic assault vehicles clash in burning hot deserts, stealth helicopters pursue a Road-Train fortress through the deadly Outback, and elite soldiers wage brutal combat aboard a behemoth cargo ship turned floating battleground. With governments denying all involvement, these shadow warriors fight without rules, backup, or mercy.

Outgunned, outnumbered and betrayed, Jackson faces an impossible choice:

1. Return the tech to its original human-right violating owners.

2. Somehow get it to his untrustworthy employer and risk it’s misuse.

3. Allow it to fall to a dictatorial regime with the power to hold nations to ransom.​

Whatever he decides, he has to get it back first.

But right now, this mission is slipping away—one vicious firefight at a time.