Desert Heist
Nate Wilde is a former Green Beret and aspiring Harvard archaeologist. Leaving the military after a catastrophic deployment that ended with most of his team dead or injured, he chooses to pursue his passion for history. When his dissertation proposal to search for the legendary lost city of Ubar in Saudi Arabia is rejected by the Harvard examining committee and his expedition permit is denied by the Saudi government, Nate resolves to continue his research by any means necessary. And the only path left to him is to enter Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter through war-torn Yemen, the same sands where his brothers lost their lives years ago.
Knowing he’s going back into harm’s way, Nate turns to the only men left alive that he truly trusts—Sergeant Benjamin “Wally” Walton, a medic formerly with the British Special Air Service; Shane Price, UFC fighter turned Green Beret and an affluent playboy; and Sergeant Tim McBride, Nate’s former best friend and a true warrior. Along the way the group meets Ana Metry, a geologist of Egyptian heritage searching for her missing father, whose research is key to Nate’s quest.
Hunted by a former Spetsnaz soldier who works for a shadowy organization with unknown goals, and chased through the desert by al Qaeda terrorists, the former commandos must utilize the skills of their past profession in a race to discover whether the city truly exists, as well as uncover a deeper geopolitical mystery with resounding global ramifications.
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Alex Dekker
Some thriller writers imagine danger. Alex Dekker has lived inside it.
Before turning to fiction, he spent nearly twenty years in the United States Army Special Forces, serving as a Green Beret in some of the world’s most volatile regions. Those years were not abstract experiences filed away for later use, they were lived in desert heat, in tight-knit teams, and under the kind of pressure that reshapes a person’s understanding of loyalty and risk. It is that hard-earned perspective that now anchors his military adventure thrillers in a realism readers immediately recognize.
Nate Wilde
The desert keeps its secrets well. Empires have vanished beneath its sands, armies have crossed it and disappeared, and somewhere in that endless horizon lies the promise of answers powerful enough to redraw modern maps. The Nate Wilde begins in that unforgiving landscape, where history is not a relic but a weapon waiting to be unearthed.
