In the near future, Africa collapses into an enormous failed state, leaving the continent lawless and severely depopulated. For most, the breakdown brings horror, but for othersthe outcast, the desperate, the criminals, and the insaneit allows unparalleled opportunity: a new frontier of danger and unlimited possibility. In America, ex-Navy SEAL Slade Crawford, emotionally crippled after twenty years of frontline combat, the dissolution of his marriage, and the accidental death of his son, is falsely accused of terrorism. Slade flees to Africa to build a new life and escape his past when he is captured by an enigmatic American colonel, Gary Kraven, and blackmailed into tracking down a blood cult that is rampaging across the sub-Sahara. Struggling to stay alive and to free himself from Kravens grasp, Slade pursues the cult across the lawless African frontier. He soon learns that nothing is as it seems and that he is standing at the epicenter of a global struggle that will determine the course of history. Slade must decide whether to fight for his lifeor his honor.In the near future, the failed continent of Africa lies in ruins, beckoning those fighting for survival, or running from their past. Adrift in a lawless frontier, beset on all sides by killers and innocents, savages and saints, Slade Crawford, renegade former Navy SEAL, must fight for his lifeor his honor. He cant have both.
"John Mangan's Into a Dark Frontier is cut from same cloth as the best of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, a story written with authority and military authenticity. It's a harsh look at a continent-wide battlefield, waged not only for land but also for the heart of freedom. Timely and exciting." —James Rollins, New York Times best-selling author
"John Mangan's Into a Dark Frontier is a powerful, realistic, and daringly unique international thriller. Its near-futlsb