THE SHADOWS OF MARIUPOLSome images cannot be erased. Some truths refuse to stay buried.Thomas Keller saw twelve civilians executed in a Mariupol courtyard.He photographed every face. Every bullet. Every killer.Then he ran.Two years later, the award-winning war photographer is a ghost. Living in a cramped Paris apartment. Drinking too much. Sleeping too little. The nightmares come every night at 3:47 a.m. The same sequence: white flash, smoke, screaming, faces.He thought burying the photos would bury the guilt. He was wrong.When a Ukrainian journalist named Nina Petrenko tracks him down with evidence linking the massacre to Aegis Group-a French private military contractor with ties to the DGSE-Thomas faces an impossible choice: stay hidden and let the killers walk free, or expose the truth and become the most wanted man in Europe.He chooses war.What follows is a relentless chase across three countries.Paris. Warsaw. Brussels. Each city brings new allies and deadlier enemies. A disgraced intelligence analyst with nothing left to lose. A Polish investigative network operating in the shadows. A British fixer who trades in secrets. And Serge Moreau-Aegis's head of operations, a man who erases problems with surgical precision.Moreau has already killed to protect this secret. Thomas's former mentor. An investigative journalist. A Ukrainian witness. Anyone who gets too close dies.Now Thomas is next.But Thomas Keller isn't running anymore.Twenty years in war zones taught him one thing: the only way out is through. Armed with photographs that could topple governments, testimony from the massacre's sole survivor, and evidence of French state complicity at the highest levels, he's building a case that will detonate across international media.The countdown has begun. In 72 hours, the world will know what happened in Mariupol.If Thomas survives that long.THE SHADOWS OF MARIUPOL is a white-knuckle geopolitical thriller for readers who demand authenticity, complexity, and protagonists who earn their victories through skill-not luck.This is fiction that reads like a classified briefing. Private military contractors operating beyond oversight. Intelligence agencies protecting their own. War crimes buried under layers of deniability. And one man with a camera who refuses to look away.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: "The pacing is relentless. I read it in two sittings.""Finally, a thriller that treats its readers like adults. No hand-holding, no shortcuts.""Keller is the protagonist we need-competent, flawed, and absolutely determined.""If you liked Terminal List or the Mitch Rapp series, this delivers."FOR FANS OF: → Vince Flynn (Mitch Rapp series) → Brad Taylor (Pike Logan series)→ Jack Carr (Terminal List) → Tom Clancy (early Ryan novels) → Daniel Silva (Gabriel Allon series) → Mark Greaney (Gray Man series)WHAT'S INSIDE: ✓ A protagonist who thinks tactically and acts decisively ✓ Authentic tradecraft and operational detail ✓ European settings rendered with precision ✓ A conspiracy that scales from street-level to state-level ✓ Action sequences choreographed for clarity and impact ✓ A satisfying conclusion that earns every payoff ✓ No filler. No padding. Every chapter advances the mission.380 pages of pure momentum.Thomas Keller has 72 hours to expose the truth. The most dangerous intelligence operatives in Europe want him dead. The clock is ticking.The shadows of Mariupol are coming into the light.THE SHADOWS OF MARIUPOL is the first standalone thriller featuring Thomas Keller. Complete story. No cliffhanger. Full resolution.Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to start reading today.