LEAD OPERATIVE: DUSM Carter "Hutch" Hutchinson

OBJECTIVE: Locate and extract high-value asset. Neutralize Consortium threat.

TIME ON OBJECTIVE: 02:17:44 and counting.

One wrong move, and the whole mission burns. Hutch knows it. He's always been both the danger and the salvation — he just never expected the asset to be her.

Primary Target Hubs: Bogota | Geneva | Macau | Bangkok

🌎 North America — 23 active

🌍 Europe — 19 active

🌎 South America — 17 active

🌍 Africa — 14 active

🌏 Asia Pacific — 22 active

🌍 Middle East — 14 active

⬢ PRIORITY VECTOR — THE MALTA PIPELINE

🎯 Malta Hub — primary logistical node, European distribution

🎯 Gemini Financials — the stream funding Mercer's cleanup crews

🎯 Thompson Oversight Files — the legislative shield

They all thought disappearing was the hard part. Finding them is TF9's specialty. We don't just protect the assets. We eliminate the threat.

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OPERATION: LETHAL VITALS

CLEARANCE: AUTHORIZED OPERATIVE LEVEL 7

"She wasn't supposed to be part of this. The asset was meant to be a simple extraction — get in, pull her out, disappear. But nothing about Dr. Iris Kincaid is simple. And Boyd is starting to realize the real threat isn't the Consortium."

— Lethal Vitals

You've been granted access to a classified TF9 dossier — exclusive content available only to registered operatives.

Character files. Mission briefings. Behind-the-scenes intel on the Lethal Series that doesn't appear anywhere else.

She's the asset. He's the extraction. Neither of them planned to fall.

DUSM Carter "Hutch" Hutchinson has one mission: extract Dr. Avery Cole before the Consortium closes in. Clean. Professional. Zero complications.

Avery Cole is the complication.

This file has not yet been cleared for operative access. Read Lethal Vitals first. Then come back.

Clearance level insufficient. This operation is sealed pending series progression.

Access denied. Come back with a higher clearance level — or wait for the next book.

The complete TF9 mission archive is sealed pending series completion. Every case. Every mission. Every impossible choice. Coming soon.

You found her. The most classified asset in Task Force Nine.

Sparkles has been embedded with TF9 since Day One. Don't let the pink fool you — she's seen things. Done things. The horn is regulation issue and has been cleared by the Department of Justice.

"She's the only one on the team Hutch actually listens to."

— Anonymous TF9 operative (identity protected)