Derek Hart

HALO (High Altitude Low Opening)

In HALO, David Lockhart holds down a pretty typical job, as a sales manager for a company that supplies an extensive catalog of products.  On the surface, there’s nothing unusual about David Lockhart.  However, when he receives a certain call-sign, Lockhart becomes the team leader of MESA, a Black Ops organization that reports to the Director of the NSA. Only the President of the United States knows of their existence. 

So, when orders came through for Lockhart to gather his team together for another top-secret mission, he thinks nothing of it. It came from the proper source, within proper channels, encoded with the latest series of ciphers. Everything seemed in order. It was not. The mission was a one-way ticket to oblivion and the ambush MESA walked into took every life of the team. All except one. Yup, you guessed it. David Lockhart managed to survive, rescued by a stunningly beautiful woman assassin.  

For the perpetrators of this betrayal of MESA, David Lockhart’s survival was not a good thing. No, it was not a good thing. For now Lockhart was mad. Not the raging, red-faced, out-of-control, irrational kind of mad. No, you see, David Lockhart wasn't like that. His anger was far more dangerous and revenge would come from anywhere, at any time.  For David Lockhart was the best, the very best. 

HALO is a riveting account of the internal workings of Black Ops, the lined-out operations on Congressional budgets. Yet the story is really about the lives of professionals who put their trust in their government, above all else and what can happen when that loyalty is betrayed!