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Occasional short stories set inside The Key Series world — incidents that didn't make it into the novels, characters seen from different angles.
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James O'Neill draws on years of research into UK Special Forces service and private security work. What fiction gets right about intelligence work. What it consistently gets wrong. What the patterns actually look like.

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The Key Series
Three books. All out now.
Book 1
The Lost Key
A classified GCHQ drive vanishes. No explosion. No headline. Just a file called Lost Key moving through the wrong hands — and a former SAS operator whose name keeps appearing in the wrong reports.
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Book 2
The Grey Wind
Someone is running a quiet campaign against Western critical infrastructure — ports, grids, financial systems — applying pressure without fingerprints. The attacks mirror a classified Red Team exercise a little too closely.
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Book 3
The Ghost Key
Something buried inside the Lost Key operation has survived, and it is coming for what is left. Book Three in The Key Series.
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