In this Ocean’s Eleven–meets–Mission Impossible thriller, former tactical deception officer and stealth pilot James R. Hannibal plunges readers into a labyrinth of action, con men, and global espionage. The Gryphon Heist is a nonstop, electrifying ride that will take readers into the most daring burglary ever conceived.
Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer who had high hopes of being assigned to the Moscow desk but is instead relegated to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe. She is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for a revolutionary defense technology. Talia assumes this assignment will be clear-cut, but that’s before she knows where the designs are stored—and who’s after them. She is soon embroiled in a high stakes race to stop the theft of the secret weapon design and a potential attack on Washington DC.
With her shady civilian partner, Adam Tyler, Talia takes a deep dive into a world where only criminal minds and unlikely strategies will keep the Gryphon, a high-altitude data vault, hovering in the mesosphere. Even Tyler is more than he seems, and Talia begins to wonder: Is he helping her? Or using her access to CIA resources to pull off an epic heist for his own dark purposes? Who is conning who?
