Calculated Risk

He's the FBI's most unpredictable asset. And he just got assigned to the one man who refuses to lose control.

Mosaic doesn't follow orders.

He doesn't wear a tie, doesn't sit through briefings, and doesn't care about Bureau politics. He's a weapon forged from survival-used by the FBI to infiltrate human trafficking networks, luring in predators and tearing them apart from the inside. With an IQ of 149 and an instinct for manipulation, he's reckless, volatile, and impossible to contain.

After another mission ends in disaster, his latest handler taps out, and the Bureau forces him under new supervision.

Enter Supervisory Special Agent Hollis Tate.

Hollis doesn't do disorder. His unit runs the FBI's highest-risk operations with precision-hostage extractions, tactical takedowns, missions where one mistake means body bags. His team doesn't go rogue. They don't break protocol. And the last thing he needs is a wild card like Mosaic blowing up his operations.

From the moment they meet, it's a battle of control-Hollis pushing for structure, Mosaic testing every boundary. But beneath the sharp words and power plays, tension simmers like a lit fuse. The way they fight, the way they push, the way Mosaic dares Hollis to lose that ironclad restraint-none of it should lead where it does.

And when their latest mission turns deadly, Mosaic does exactly what he was built to do-adapt, improvise, survive. The Bureau expects him to be unpredictable, but they've never seen what happens when he finally has something to lose.
For the first time, Mosaic isn't just playing the game. He's about to burn the whole damn board.