The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service didn't want you to see this.
Download the full classified personnel dossier on Kurt Bauer — Asset WATCHMAKER — before you read The Guardian Protocol..
"I picked this up expecting another airport thriller. What I got was something colder, sharper, and far more intelligent. Bauer isn't a superhero — he's an engineer who happens to know how to clear a room. The Vatican conspiracy felt real. The tradecraft felt real. I finished it in two sittings and immediately wanted Book Two."
What you get:
The Kurt Bauer Dossier — A four-page classified personnel file from the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service. Background, training history, skills assessment, operational notes, and handler observations on Asset WATCHMAKER. The same document his handler keeps in a locked drawer in Bern.
Early intel on Book Two — Dead Frequency continues Kurt's story. Subscribers get the cover reveal, release date, and first-chapter preview before anyone else.
Occasional dispatches — Not a newsletter. No spam. Just the odd transmission when there's something worth reporting — a new book, a deleted scene, or something from the world of the series that didn't make it onto the page.
What is it all about?
A watchmaker. A weapon. A conspiracy that reaches the Vatican.
Kurt Bauer built the world's most advanced satellite watch — a biometric monitoring and encrypted communications device worn by heads of state, NATO commanders, and senior Vatican officials. Then someone turned it into a targeting system.
When Bauer discovers his own technology is being used to track and eliminate the people it was designed to protect, he's pulled back into a world he left behind — from the backrooms of Geneva to a compound in the Jordanian desert, with a network inside the Vatican he can't yet see.
The Guardian Protocol is the first book in The Watchmaker series by John Michael Hadley.