**Brought to you by Penguin.
Lee Child meets Tom Clancy in this tense new thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer.**
He's trained to fight America's enemies overseas.
Now the battle has come home.
When a presidential candidate is assassinated during a summer retreat on Nantucket Island, the country is thrown into turmoil.
Enter Rocket's Red Glare - a covert unit so classified it doesn't officially exist. Led by former Special Forces operative Nat Phillips, this team is built to respond when national security collapses.
But what begins as a manhunt for a killer soon unravels into a global conspiracy stretching from Washington to foreign capitals.
To save his country, Phillips must face the unthinkable - because the next war has already begun.
© James Patterson 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
