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The Professor - Tertia Optio - Belfast
By James O’Dea
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The Professor - Tertia Optio - Belfast
To his students, he is a mild-mannered history professor.
To his family, he is a loving husband and father.
To the United States government, he is the Third Option!
For ten years, Colin Reid has lived a perfect lie. Beneath the tweed jacket and the tenure track lies “Tanto” - a deep asset for the Omega program, deployed only when diplomacy fails and military action is politically impossible.
When a terror financier surfaces in Belfast, Colin is given an order he cannot refuse: a termination notice with a lethal deadline. To protect his cover, he must take his wife and children into the kill zone, disguising an assassination as a family holiday.
On the rain slick streets of Northern Ireland, the mission works exactly as designed. A single, ruthless act of sabotage eliminates the target with surgical precision. The world sees an accident. The government calls it a success.
But success comes at a cost more devastating than anyone expected. In the wake of the operation, a man untouched by the blast but gutted by its aftermath begins to see the pattern in the chaos. He does not want justice. He wants annihilation.
James O’Dea delivers a heart-pounding debut thriller where the deadliest weapons is the man you never noticed!
Meet the Author -
James O’Dea is a former military operations and intelligence professional whose career in national security gives him a rare, insider perspective on the world of clandestine operations. Drawing on decades of experience in the shadows of the global special operations community, he brings authenticity and precision to the secret war that runs just beneath the surface of everyday life.
O’Dea lives in Texas, where he balances the quiet rhythm of family life with the darker, more disciplined world he writes about. The Professor, his debut novel and the first book in the Omega Series, grew from that tension between ordinary life and extraordinary secrecy. He continues to explore the moral and psychological cost of living on the edge of the world’s most dangerous conflicts.
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