Ghost Drop
For teleoperator Sam Knightsbridge, the line between virtual combat and real-world terror is about to be obliterated.
The terrorists came to ignite a war on American soil.
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, backed by the rapid-response force he helped build—one forged from the hard lessons of Ukraine and two decades of Middle East combat. Their edge: teleoperated combat robots flown to the objective at 700 mph, then delivered by drop pod—putting top-tier lethality on the ground within minutes of an alert.
But the enemy hides among the very people Sam is sworn to protect. For operators immersed in lethal machines, a split-second decision can have brutal consequences. Counterinsurgency on home soil offers no clean choices, and its scars may outlast the war.
Ghost Drop is the explosive first installment in Kevin Higgins’s DropHawk Thrillers—a 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).
