Suffocating Loyalty

Undercover agent Adrian Hale has spent seven years inside the empire of Cyrus Draven, a crime lord now facing execution by nitrogen asphyxiation. On the eve of the takedown, Adrian confronts the terrifying truth: the monster he has come to understand is not a devil, but a man who has pushed a universal human hunger—to protect his own—beyond all moral limits, mirroring Adrian's own desperate need to belong.