Three contracts. Three war zones. One threat that refuses to stay behind the wire.

Former Army counterintelligence officer Nate Priest thought he understood how quiet threats worked. He was wrong.

When Nate returns to the field as a private security contractor, he finds himself pulled into increasingly dangerous operations across the Middle East — from the volatile waters of the Strait of Hormuz to the oilfields outside Basra and the high-stakes economic zone rising in Kuwait.

Alongside risk analyst Shirin Vaziri, Nate faces threats that rarely announce themselves until it’s too late: patient enemy networks, corrupt checkpoints, compromised security teams, smugglers, militia operatives, coerced informants, and enemies who have spent years preparing for the moment to strike.

In The Hormuz Contract, Nate is tasked with protecting an aging energy executive as a war closes in around Fujairah. Three seemingly harmless fishing dhows may be the first sign of something far more dangerous — and Nate soon discovers that the real threat may already be inside his own perimeter.

In The Basra Contract, Nate and Shirin arrive expecting a routine security assessment for an oilfield operation. Instead, they uncover a smuggling network, a compromised compound, and an Iran-aligned militia that has been watching and testing the defenses long before anyone realizes an attack is coming.

In The Last Contract, Kuwait is supposed to be the safe assignment. But a fatwa follows them across the border, and an investigation into a multibillion-dollar development project exposes a decade-old network built from corruption, fear, and carefully cultivated loyalty.

From Hormuz to Basra to Kuwait, every contract brings Nate and Shirin closer to enemies who know how to wait — and closer to a truth neither of them wants to face: sometimes the most dangerous threat isn’t outside the wire.

The Contractor Series is a gripping military thriller series of intelligence operations, covert networks, private security, and hard-earned trust, written by a former Army counterintelligence officer and military K-9 contractor with firsthand experience in the environments he writes about.