In OPERATION: DEAD DROP, CIA Agent William Bartlett isthrust into a high-stakes race across Europe to intercept and protect Laura in, a brilliant nuclear engineer from Beijing who is attempting to defect. She carries with her the blueprints to China’s next-generation submarine propulsion system—intelligence that could shift the balance of power beneath the world’s oceans. With the help of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Bartlett navigates a labyrinth of surveillance, betrayal, and shifting alliances as he tries to bring her safely into U.S. custody. But as Chinese agents close in, the mission spirals into a deadly contest of timing, tradecraft, and sacrifice.

Set across Prague, Hamburg, and Munich, Dead Dropcaptures the tension and grit of modern espionage, where no one is ever fully safe, and every move is shadowed by danger. When Laura is abducted and ultimately executed in cold blood, Bartlett must confront the harrowing cost of intelligence work—and the silence reserved for those who die in its service.Gripping, atmospheric, and emotionally charged, Dead Drop explores the thin line between duty and humanity in a war fought without uniforms or borders.