The Secret Government

When Pentagon number-cruncher Lieutenant Meg Sanford stumbles onto the truth behind a cyber attack on the US’s secure computer networks, she’s sucked into the resources war between her service, the US Navy, and the US Air Force.

Who is ‘Merlin’, the brilliant hacker who’s penetrated to the heart of the Secret Government? Is he real, or an avatar, a mere device in a disinformation civil war?

Meg Sanford warns her Navy bosses that the Air Force is bidding for control of national cyber security. Soon she’s talking directly to legendary Admiral James Brennan, and personally tasked to operate ‘over the horizon’, tracking down one brilliant hacker – Merlin - with the support of another – Seaman CT Levon Hastings.

But first she has to free him from a jail cell at Fort Leavenworth.

Sanford’s mission quickly turns dangerous. But who’s trying to violently terminate her mission? Is it a foreign power or someone close to home?

Who is hunting the hunter?

THE SECRET GOVERNMENT is the debut novel of International Emmy award-winning screenwriter and playwright Stephen Leo Davis.