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The fifth key
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Ongoing, First published Aug 03, 2025
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New York, 2018. Liam Gray is an 18-year-old lockpick prodigy from Boston, funny, handsome, and completely off the grid. He lives alone in a cramped Brooklyn apartment, breaking into things for fun and never taking a dime. But when he opens a forgotten WWII-era safe in an abandoned antique shop, he doesn't just find history-he wakes it up.

Within hours, Liam is recruited by Cass Ward, a former intelligence officer turned shadowy strategist. Cass is assembling a crew-each member hand-picked for a global operation that begins with a dusty vault in Manhattan and ends across oceans, chasing a war-era treasure hidden beneath layers of betrayal, murder, and history no one wants unearthed.

They're not the only ones looking.

International kingpin Viktor Sarin wants the prize for himself-and he's willing to kill for it. With the FBI and Homeland Security closing in from one side, and a rival criminal empire on the other, Liam and the crew must outwit everyone in a game where the keys aren't just metal-they're names, codes, and blood.
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