Marcus Thorne had spent fifteen years being the hardest thing in any room. As a lead executive protector for a private military contracting firm, he’d cleared buildings in Fallujah and swept penthouses in São Paulo. His toolbox was full: Krav Maga, BJJ, MCMAP. He could kill a man with a ballpoint pen.
He went because he had nothing else to lose.
But six months ago, a video leaked. Marcus, escorting a VIP through a London protest, had put a journalist into the hospital. The man had grabbed the principal’s sleeve. Marcus reacted. A single, fluid striking motion from his old KM training—elbow to the temple, knee to the solar plexus. The journalist fell wrong. Skull met curb.
A disgraced corporate security consultant, stripped of his license for excessive force, finds redemption—and a new family—in the brutal, claustrophobic world of KFM’s Urban X Program, where the final exam is a real ambush in a blind alley.