No Safe Ground by D.L. Grace
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
A war that never ended. A name he can’t escape. A kill chain that started long before he knew it existed.
Matt “Johno” Johnson was once among the best, an elite British Special Forces operator. Now he’s a close‑protection operator, haunted by a textbook ambush in Afghanistan that left three of his men dead and a permanent question in his head: did he walk away, or was he walked into it?
Chasing redemption, he takes work wherever it comes. A brush with a cartel in Central America, a “simple” security job in northern Iraq. Protect, extract, move on. But on the roads of Kurdistan, nothing is simple. Attacks are too clean; enemies are always one move ahead, and allies are never quite where they should be. Somewhere, someone is reading his routes, his choices, the way he thinks, and using that against him.
As ISIS rises and covert wars bleed across borders, Johno finds himself at the intersection of jihadist networks, private and rival intelligence services, who all see him as the perfect expendable asset. To some, he’s a shield; to others, a pawn. He’s a target with a bounty on his head and doesn’t know it. With every move he makes, the game tightens around him.
In a world where every ally could be an enemy and every mission a trap, Johno’s hardest fight isn’t against the men shooting at him, but against the guilt, anger, and unfinished duty that have been steering him since Afghanistan. To survive and to stop the quiet war being waged through him, he has to decide what kind of man he is: a survivor, a soldier, or an avenger.
No Safe Ground is an authentic, visceral, cinematic thriller of modern warfare and espionage with moral reckoning. Perfect for readers of I Am Pilgrim, Simon Conway and Bourne‑era espionage who want their action grounded in real conflicts, real scars and a single brutal truth:
There is no safe ground.
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