The Iron Manifest - A Blackrun Cove Thriller

When a string of international cargo ships disappears without a trace, federal agent Jace Holloway goes undercover in Blackrun Cove, a crumbling port city where the law stops at the waterline. Posing as a dockworker, he digs through a world of rusted cranes, silent longshoremen, and warehouses that keep secrets better than any vault.

Across the country, forensic financial investigator Avery Sinclair follows a trail of laundered money through a maze of shell corporations, offshore accounts, and falsified manifests, all of it circling back to shipping magnate and black-market kingpin Roman Briggs. What she uncovers is bigger than fraud: it is the financial skeleton of a criminal empire built on trafficked technology.

Beneath the abandoned piers of Blackrun Cove lies a hidden terminal, a forgotten freight tunnel repurposed to move stolen military hardware to buyers around the globe. When Holloway and Sinclair's investigations collide, they uncover the true scale of Briggs's operation, and just how far he will go to protect it.

As federal pressure closes in, Briggs makes a final decision: burn the harbor to the ground and erase every trace of what happened there. With the city turning into a warzone of explosions, rooftop pursuits, and close-range gunfights, charter pilot Miles Keegan becomes the only way out, if his helicopter can get off the ground before the whole waterfront goes up in flames.

THE IRON MANIFEST is a fast-moving action thriller about the price of exposing a hidden empire, and how far three strangers will go to bring it down before it buries them with it.