Four Americans are missing.
One of them is already running out of time.
When an aid convoy disappears in the Republic of Anfara, Navy SEAL Chief Ray Sullivan and his team are sent into the Sahel to find the hostages before a private ransom channel collapses and the captors move them beyond reach.
The intelligence is thin. The ground is worse. Every lead comes from someone with a reason to lie.
Among the prisoners is Dr. Paul Whitaker, a Type 1 diabetic whose insulin was damaged during the ambush. As his condition deteriorates, the rescue window begins to close faster than the mission planners can track it.
Ray is built for this kind of work. He can read terrain, people, and danger before most men know what they are seeing. But he has one weakness his team knows too well.
He cannot leave a savable person behind.
As the hostage trail splits across two fortified sites, Ray and the men beside him are forced into a simultaneous assault built on an intelligence picture that may already be wrong. When the escape route collapses and the aircraft cannot reach them, the survivors face a brutal crossing over open salt ground under fire.
The mission becomes a long crawl toward extraction.
Some will make it.
One will not.
And behind the kidnapping sits a financial network already preparing for the next war.
The Long Crawl is the first Ray Sullivan Navy SEAL Thriller – a grounded, hard-edged story of hostage rescue, team loyalty, family pressure, and the cost of believing skill can save everyone.
Perfect for readers of Jack Carr, Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn, and realistic military thrillers where every decision has consequences.
