A dead man in the Sandhills. A case no agency wants. A truth someone inside the system is desperate to bury.

When a man with no identification is found murdered outside Centerpoint, Nebraska, a routine fingerprint scan triggers a restricted federal alert—pulling Captain Cyrus “CG” Greene and the covert Homicide Response Command into a place no one expected to matter.

The victim is quickly tied to the Russian Embassy. They acknowledge he was staff… and then insist they have no idea why he was in the Sandhills. The story feels wrong. The evidence feels wrong. And the more CG looks at the scene, the more it becomes clear the crime isn’t meant to be solved—it’s meant to be redirected.

As CG pushes deeper, ordinary details stop lining up. Reports shift. Cooperation fades. People who should be allies suddenly want him off the case. Someone with influence is steering the investigation away from the truth, and CG can’t tell whether he’s chasing a foreign threat… or something far closer to home.

Inspired by real-world tensions and the quiet ways power bends the rules, The Blue Water Protocol is a suspense-driven thriller about a man who trusts evidence more than orders—and what happens when the evidence points somewhere no one wants him to look.

For readers of Robert Crais, John D. MacDonald, and character-first crime fiction, this is the introduction of Captain Cyrus “CG” Greene—sharp, stubborn, and unafraid to follow a case wherever it leads.

Some truths aren’t hidden. They’re hidden in plain sight.