The Black Sea Bargain

One dinner. One name. Nothing else was supposed to happen.

Ray Ramage travels to Constanta, Romania, with one mission. Meet a frightened Romanian intelligence officer in a restaurant, exchange a visa letter for a name, and fly home. Clean, simple, one dinner. Then the chair across the table remains empty, and nothing about the night stays simple after that. With no backup, no weapon, and no authorization for what comes next, Ray makes a phone call to the one man he knows who doesn’t ask unnecessary questions. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander T.J. Jackson wasn’t supposed to be part of this. Neither was the pier at midnight, nor were the two men waiting on it in the dark.