{"product_id":"ice-50","title":"ICE: Cain Taggert","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt started with smoke—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003enot the kind that drifts from cheap cigars or burned-out backrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind that rolls off concrete after a blast, thick and hot, clinging to the walls like guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe East Wing of the Pentagon got its teeth kicked in at dawn. Nobody died, but that wasn’t the point. It wasn’t about bodies. It was about embarrassment. Power cracked in half with the cameras rolling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd just when they were still patching the walls and their pride, Wall Street lit up next. That one did have bodies. Plenty of them. Brokers, guards, janitors—names that’d be forgotten by next quarter’s earnings call.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe press called it terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe suits called it a catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe President called it an ultimatum. Thirty days to fix it, or he’d start handing out pink slips to generals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne name floated to the top: Jalal Hussein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA butcher with a passport and too many friends in the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe moved from city to city like a virus. And every team sent after him disappeared like a bad secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pentagon threw everything they had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelta. SEALs. Tier-One ghosts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of them ended up cold, bloody, and on the news.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere was only one name left in the drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne they didn’t want to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne they buried years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCain Taggert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe wasn’t a soldier. He was a verdict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot part of the machine—he was what got called in when the machine jammed and someone had to start breaking parts off with a crowbar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey’d burned him once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeft him bleeding in Kazakhstan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTried to kill him to clean the mess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDidn’t work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow the same bastards who set the fire want him to put it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey called.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCain answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd this time, he’s not coming to clean up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe’s coming to collect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46670848360658,"sku":"c7fa079e-4cf9-34fe-96de-a7c29265d2c3","price":5.48,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_c343db52-0a7b-46ec-9411-967b6fb33b21.jpg?v=1762611975","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/ice-50","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}