THE SERPENT IS LOOSE

THE WORLD IS THE TARGET

When elite interrogator Malcolm Chaucer is pulled into a covert investigation, he uncovers a nightmare no intelligence agency is prepared for: a new breed of sleeper agents who don’t know they’re sleepers—men and women rewritten from the inside out, capable of passing every test and betraying everything they once were.

Following their trail leads Chaucer and his lethal ex wife, Tempest MacLaren, from a black site submarine to a luxury island resort, and from London’s busiest train station to the heart of the Middle East—where a long buried Soviet doomsday weapon known as the Red Serpent is about to be unleashed. A weapon that could collapse global economies, and ignite worldwide war.

The mastermind behind the plot is Petr Chaban, a man who survived the same torture that once broke Chaucer—and emerged with a terrifying new philosophy: humanity is nothing, and the world must burn to be remade.

Hunted by governments, manipulated by shadows, and racing against time, Chaucer must decide how far he’s willing to go to save the world, and the woman he loves—and whether stopping the Serpent is worth becoming the monster who can.

Relentless, explosive, and disturbingly plausible, Year of the Serpent is a high octane conspiracy thriller where loyalty is fragile, identity is weaponized, and survival is never guaranteed.