Jack Raines is a former Navy SEAL turned rogue operative, the central figure in Mike Belasko’s Ghost Protocols series. Haunted by the deaths of his closest friends and disillusioned by the system’s failure to deliver justice, Jack wages a personal war against the cartels, traffickers, and corrupt officials who operate beyond the law’s reach.
Trained in covert tactics, surveillance, and asymmetric warfare, Jack is a one-man strike team with a moral compass forged in fire. He’s not afraid to cross lines others won’t — because he knows some battles can’t be won by playing fair. His missions take him deep into the underworld of modern America, where fentanyl flows freely, human lives are traded like currency, and silence is bought with blood.
In Ghosts of War, Jack dismantles a drug cartel responsible for his team’s deaths. In Ghosts of Trade, he infiltrates a trafficking network that forces him to confront the cost of justice — and the price of failure. Each operation pushes him further from the man he was, and closer to the ghost he’s becoming.
Jack Raines is not a hero. He’s a reckoning. And for those who prey on the innocent, he’s the last man they’ll ever see.
"Some chains are invisible. Some wars are fought in shadows. Some ghosts never rest."