Observation Platform Seven - Cassian Voss

Eli Marsh spent fifteen years walking into disasters. Now something has walked into his.

Earthquakes. Floods. Refugee camps. Eli built a career on being the calm one in catastrophe. He also nearly lost everything to it.

When his wife Lena finally pulled him home to Portland, he meant the promise. Two years of unremarkable mornings. Couples therapy. Pad thai on Saturdays. The slow work of becoming a person who stays.

Then something turns up in the bottom of an old field-gear bin that has no business being there. Smooth. Warm. Featureless except for a single indentation that fits his thumb like it has been waiting for him.

Eli has spent his career watching powerful outsiders arrive with agendas disguised as help. He recognises a recruitment pitch when he hears one. What he doesn't recognise is the man he becomes once he has accepted it.

Lena does not suspect what he is hiding. She suspects what she has seen before. The late nights. The exhaustion. The distance.

She brought him back from the edge once. She isn't sure she has another rescue in her. And Eli isn't sure he wants to be rescued.

Observation Platform Seven is a literary thriller about manipulation, integrity, and the small daily choices that decide what kind of person you become when no one is watching.