You Can Call Me Al Kindle Edition

Al is a HS football star who should be worrying about playbooks and finals. Instead, he’s worrying about whether the man smiling politely across the table is the kind of evil that kills children for profit.Al’s secret is simple and impossible: he can read people with terrifying accuracy. Not psychology. Not intuition. Something deeper - like a radar for malice. When his aunt recruits him into a tiny, off-books intelligence unit, his life pivots overnight from campus routine to covert operations.A Middle Eastern palace turns out to be nothing like the agency briefed. A South American Christmas party by the pool becomes a hunting ground for conspirators. A Los Angeles medical convention becomes a mask parade for a scientist who may be planning mass death - with an antidote only he controls.But the most dangerous part of Al’s new life isn’t always the missions.It’s the women.A brilliant pre-med love from home who knows him better than anyone. A sharp, courageous Iraqi student who becomes both a romance and a doorway into a hidden world. A president’s daughter who starts as a cover story and turns into something real enough to break his heart. A glamorous model in Paris who offers escape, pleasure, and a different kind of risk. And back at the training compound, the “lessons” that blur the line between preparation and emotion.Al isn’t a carouser. He’s a young man learning how intimacy can be both refuge and leverage, how affection can steady you… and how attachment can be used against you.With sharp humor, escalating stakes, and a hero who grows more capable and more conflicted with every operation, this novel follows Al’s transformation from gifted kid to full-time agent, and sets the stage for a series where the missions get darker, the enemies get smarter, and the cost of saving people includes the ones you love. Read more