Under the Same Sky — Michael Rizzo

Occurring immediately after the events of Grayman Book Two: The Ratings War, Mike Ram, at the peek of his popularity, is forced to face off against the grieving father of the teenaged mass shooter he’d killed on camera, knowing he’s being manipulated by the same terrorist mastermind that recruited and armed his son.Under the Same Sky represents one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in the career of Mike Ram, as he’s being carefully crafted into a global hero as part of a daring and disturbing experiment to decisively end the tenacious threat of global terrorism. A group of powerful corporate and political players have leveraged a desperate world to create a multinational force of “surgical” strike teams, armed with advanced weapons, technology and armor, and directed by a cutting-edge AI. But more than simply employing high-tech weaponry, this new army is designed to fight a true “information war” by operating completely in the public eye, their missions crafted for maximum marketability, their operatives shaped into Hollywood-style action heroes. Now, their deadliest opponent threatens to bring it all down by using one broken man to publicly expose the vulnerabilities in their costly promises of protection.