Ghost Drop
They came to ignite a war on American soil.
In the pre-dawn dark along the Texas border, gunfire erupts as thermal-masked convoys slip across the river behind armed drones and military-grade jammers, leaving a young Border Patrol agent bleeding in the dirt. She’s the first casualty of a war most Americans won't know is underway until it's too late.
Yahya al-Ghazali, the mastermind behind the incursion, doesn't seek victory on any battlefield. He wants panic and chaos metastasizing through the heart of the enemy he blames for everything he's lost. His weapons are Iranian-backed sleeper cells, buried for years inside American communities, now waking up.
Against him stands Army veteran Sam Knightsbridge and PHANTOM Force: a rapid-response unit forged from the hard lessons of Ukraine and two decades of Middle East combat. Their edge—teleoperated combat robots, delivered by drop pod at 700 mph, hitting faster and fighting smarter than any conventional force can.
But the enemy hides among the very people Sam is sworn to protect, and lethal machines make brutal mistakes. Counterinsurgency on home soil is fraught, and the scars it leaves run deeper than any wound.
Ghost Drop is the explosive first installment in the DropHawk Thrillers, Kevin Higgins's near-future military techno-thriller series delivering relentless action, plausible tech, and flawed heroes fighting a desperate war. If you crave gritty, hard-edged military fiction ripped from tomorrow's battlefields, start here.
The war escalates in Book 2, Terror Swarm (August 2026), and detonates in Book 3, Phantom War (Fall 2026).
