26 parts Ongoing Five years ago, Ben Ripley vanished during a covert Arctic mission gone wrong.
The world - and Spy School - believed he was dead.
Everyone except Erica Hale.
Despite the evidence, Erica never accepted Ben's death. Her instincts - and her heart - told her he was still out there. She was right.
After being ambushed and kidnapped by a secret coalition of their old enemies, Ben managed to escape - wounded, alone, and forced to disappear. Weeks later, through an encrypted channel known only to the two of them, Ben reached out to Erica one last time. He told her the truth: the ambush had been a setup to remove him from the picture, paving the way for a new global operation years in the making.
To stop it, Ben would have to vanish completely.
With Erica's reluctant blessing, Ben fled across the world to Japan, where he assumed a new identity with the help of Jessica Shang, an unlikely ally who gave him shelter and a cover life. Hidden from every intelligence network, Ben was soon drawn into the shadows - recruited by a secret organization that trained him to become one of the most skilled covert operatives alive.
Five years later, Ben Ripley is no longer the awkward kid who tripped through Spy School missions. He's taller, colder, fluent in six languages, and scarred inside and out - a master of survival shaped by silence and regret.
But when he discovers that the same organization that hunted him now has its sights set on Erica Hale, Ben must step out of the shadows and face his past.
Because some missions never end.
And some connections can't be erased - no matter how long you've been gone.
