Here's your Amazon book description:The war lasted one morning.The mission that made it possible took six weeks.On February 28, 2026, American and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury — the most precise military strike in modern history. Nuclear facilities destroyed. Missile infrastructure eliminated. The Iranian regime's leadership decapitated in a single night.The world watched it on television.Nobody watched Ryan Cross.An ISA operator with fifteen years in the Middle East, Ryan Cross spent six weeks inside Iran before the first bomb dropped. Recruiting assets. Confirming targets. Building the intelligence infrastructure that turned a war into a surgical strike.He was not supposed to exist. His mission was not supposed to happen. The six men and women who died making it possible will never be officially acknowledged.FIRST SHADOW is their story.But someone else was watching Ryan Cross. A private American intelligence contractor called MERIDIAN — built by a former CIA Deputy Director of Operations — didn't want the war to be clean. A ten-hour surgical strike was their worst outcome. They needed it longer. Bloodier. More complicated.Ryan Cross was the problem they didn't account for.Seven missions. Six weeks. One morning that changed the world.