STRIKE from the DESERT

by Thomas Austin Brill

Hack the Pentagon is a bold initiative designed by the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the efficacy of their security-a barrier widely perceived as impregnable. FBI agent Matthew Johnson steps up to accept the challenge of defeating this state-of-the-art screen. He recruits his friends, Jon and Alyssa Levine, to join him in brainstorming to create a viable approach. Together, the three contrive a gambit to bypass Pentagon security that they believe will prove successful. However, on the day chosen to execute their strategy, unknown actors have scheduled their own two-part blitz designed to devastate the Pentagon. The trio must devise a way to uncover the identity of the perpetrators and subsequently cripple their organization. The convoluted trail leads them from Florida to Washington, and ultimately to Riyadh.