My world had shrunk to the four walls of this office. The adrenaline from the mess hall—that cold, precise fire—had receded, leaving behind…

I must have dozed off, because the next thing I knew, a small body was bouncing on my chair. “Dad, Dad, wake up!…

I looked at my father—really, truly looked at him. The giant of my childhood, the man whose approval I had craved like oxygen,…

I spent the next eighteen months in places that don’t exist on any map you can Google. These places… they weren’t just coordinates.…

I followed them. The command to my driver was quiet, automatic. “Follow them.” He didn’t question me. In my world, no one did.…