By Deceit
By Deceit is a razor-edged psychological thriller told entirely in the sardonic, whip-smart voice of Daniella Gordon—a Mossad-CIA hybrid operative whose cynicism is only matched by her brilliance.
When Daniella vanishes from New York under deep cover, the world believes she’s a burned-out Mossad officer switching sides. Iranian handlers think they’ve scored a prize. Instead, they’ve walked into her trap. Snatched through Rome and Istanbul and delivered to Tehran, she endures “conditioning” meant to break her loyalties. What they don’t know: Daniella is already ten steps ahead, weaponizing every humiliation, every test, every supposed defeat.
Inside Iran’s elite training unit, she bends students and instructors alike to her will, feeding the Mossad a steady drip of secrets via an ingenious covert ATM network. She fakes breakdowns, plants betrayals, survives purges—and turns the regime’s deepest-cover spy program into Israel’s most valuable asset.
But victory abroad doesn’t end the war. Back in Tel Aviv, Daniella discovers her own agency has been compromised. To smoke out a mole inside Mossad, she wields the same arsenal of lies, seduction, and psychological warfare she perfected in Tehran.
By the time the dust settles, Daniella is no longer just a spy. She is a force of retribution—an entire intelligence service distilled into one woman, armed with nothing but wit, willpower, and the courage to weaponize her own humanity.
Few Words by the Author
When cyber-terrorists hijack a sewage treatment plant in Illinois, flooding the streets with raw waste, it’s more than an isolated hack—it’s the first salvo in a covert cyberwar against the United States. The attackers have penetrated the most secure government systems, know the code name of the newly formed Titan Rain Task Force, and have data on thousands of vulnerable U.S. dams.
Former Mossad operative turned DOJ/CIA investigator Daniella Gordon is drawn into a race against time to stop an enemy capable of crippling the nation without firing a shot. As cascading attacks paralyze power grids, air traffic, and military assets, suspicion turns inward—there’s a mole in the highest echelons of U.S. security. Defying protocol and under threat from all sides, Daniella goes off-book, using the DarkNet to bait the cyber-phantoms into revealing themselves.
From Manhattan boardrooms to Langley’s secure war rooms, Titan Rain delivers a razor-sharp, authentic, and chillingly plausible portrait of twenty-first century warfare—where the battlefield is invisible, the weapons are digital, and the casualties are real.
By Deceit - Introduction
Trust is the most dangerous weapon.
Daniella Gordon isn’t the kind of spy who was meant to survive in the shadows. Brilliant, ambitious, and once fast-tracked through Mossad’s psychological operations unit, she’s used to shaping narratives—not walking into them. But when the CIA recruits her for a joint operation with Mossad to infiltrate Iran’s most secretive espionage network, Daniella is forced into the field. Her cover is airtight, her training lethal. What she doesn’t know is that betrayal will come not from her enemies—but from those sworn to protect her.
Her assignment seems straightforward: penetrate Tehran’s clandestine “ghost division” and intercept its efforts to steal cyber-weapons capable of crippling Western power grids. But almost immediately, Daniella senses layers beneath the mission brief. The Iranians seem to anticipate her moves. Her CIA handler withholds details. Her Mossad colleagues suspect her motives. Each side insists she’s working for them—while leaving just enough ambiguity to make her doubt herself.
As Daniella digs deeper, she uncovers a conspiracy more dangerous than stolen technology. The Iranian plot is real, but someone inside the CIA—or Mossad—is feeding it oxygen. False kidnappings, staged executions, and forged identities blur the lines between theater and reality. The people closest to her are not who they seem: a lover with classified access, an “enemy” who knows her childhood secrets, a partner who may be her executioner. The only thing more perilous than trusting the wrong person… is trusting no one at all.
When the cyber-weapons resurface not in Tehran, but in Israel, Daniella realizes the joint operation has been compromised from within. The mole she was sent to expose may not be Iranian—it may be sitting in the same war room where she is being briefed.
With seventy-two hours before the weapons are deployed, Daniella must outmaneuver both Iranian intelligence and the agencies that betrayed her. To stop the attack, she must gamble her life, her country, and her heart on one impossible decision: betray the people she once swore allegiance to—or die by their deceit.
By Deceit is a high-octane espionage thriller in the tradition of Homeland and Body of Lies—a story where patriotism and treachery share the same face, and where the ultimate mission is survival of the truth.
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