Gunnery Sergeant Ethan Rourke has kept his team alive through four deployments. He knows the difference between a bad mission and a compromised one.

This one is compromised.

The intel is thin. The route is wrong. The air support isn't coming. And somewhere in the chain of command above him, someone knows exactly what's waiting at grid reference 447.

Four Marines are walking into the Afghan hills at 0600.
Not all of them are coming back.

Before the Fall is the prequel novella to the Blind Eye Series, a conspiracy thriller about the moment one man discovers that the most dangerous enemy was never on the other side of the wire.

"Before the Fall"

by Rhett Sloane