Payback
Part 3 of the Prime Target series
Revenge is personal. Justice is never simple.After Marlene Steele's tragic assassination, Jeremy Hall is consumed by vengeance-and suspicion. He knows The Foundation, the shadowy deep-state organization pulling strings across the globe, is behind the killing. But uncovering their motive will lead him into a conspiracy far deeper than he imagined.Rallying his old allies from the Yulin Naval base mission, Hall assembles a covert team, including CIA operative Hollis Stratton and Steele's closest friend-a satellite specialist with the power to uncover the assassin's identity. As Hall tracks Steele's killer, the trail reveals a chilling new threat: an assassination plot targeting the U.S. president at the G20 summit in Hamburg.With time running out, Hall must team up with Secret Service Director Sherry Fitzpatrick to thwart an unprecedented attack. As Chinese operatives seize control of a satellite crucial to their sinister plans, Hall and his team face high-tech warfare on a global scale. Sacrifices mount, alliances fray, and the stakes soar as the NRO races to recover their surveillance capabilities with help from an unlikely source.But as Hall delivers his revenge, the final blow reveals a shocking betrayal at the heart of The Foundation. The story ends in deception, ambition, and a power grab that will leave readers breathless. Prime Target 3: Payback is a relentless thriller where justice is a game, and victory comes at a cost. You'll never see the final twist coming. Roy McArdle grew up in California, where he excelled in athletics all the way through college. He entered the U.S. Army where he was trained as a radio operator in Morse Code. His time in service was served at Fort Gordon, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After leaving the military, he would end up as a commercial diver running dive operations that employed active duty and retired Navy SEALs, with an emphasis on hull maintenance of ships and boats. During this time, he pursued his California Teaching Credential, where he eventually graduated with a Masters Degree in Secondary Education. The opportunity arose to teach while overseas in South Korea at places such as The Republic of Korea (ROK) Naval Academy, The ROK Defense Institute of Language, and The ROK War College. He would be recruited to work for Samsung Heavy Industries in Koje-do Island as a teacher, where he would work for three years in the language department, before eventually running an International School for dependents of foreigners working overseas in Korea in the shipbuilding industry. Roy finally returned to California where he has been teaching over twenty years in secondary education. The last ten years has been in alternative education for his school district working with youth coming out of the Juvenile Hall system.