Flash Point
Jake Darst
Flash Point is the first book in the new technothriller series by Jake Darst, a good friend of mine and an outstanding writer. Highly recommended. Check it out and leave a review.
The experiment succeeded. That was the problem.
Former Tier 1 operator Grayson Maddox thought he’d left the battlefield behind.
Now he’s leading a classified physics project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Then the sabotage begins.
A mysterious outage cripples his lab.
An armed intruder targets his assistant.
A bomb detonates outside a briefing he just left.
Someone knows exactly what Maddox’s team has discovered—and they’re moving with lethal precision to stop it.
On the run, he turns to the only people he trusts: his former Unit teammates.
But even CIA safe houses aren’t safe. Somewhere, there’s a leak, and two rival factions are closing in.
One wants the discovery.
The other wants it buried forever—and Maddox along with it.
To survive, Maddox must become the operator he thought he’d left behind.
Because if RIFT falls into the wrong hands...
the next battlefield won’t be a country.
It will be reality itself.
“A breathless tech thriller ... Our verdict: Get it.” — Kirkus Reviews
“The pace was relentless—the next page couldn’t come fast enough. The characterizations were spot on and believable.”
— U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret)
“I started reading at 2000 and finished at 0200. A gripping build with a surprising finish.”
— Former Army Ranger Regiment operator and Army aviator