Myke Cole has been rocking his Myke Cole has been rocking his Shadow Ops series for the last couple of years, and his latest, Gemini Cell , was his best novel yet. The Shadow Ops world follows a shadoy military unit operating in a version of our world in which magic has suddenly manifested. As people across the planet become imbued with magical powers, many in the United States are conscripted into the Shadow Ops organization, tasked with training and utilizing them—or locking them up.

Gemini Cell (Shadow Ops: Reawakening Series #1) Paperback $7.99 Add to Bag Add to Bag See All Formats & Editions › In Gemini Cell, a prequel to the other three volumes of the series, Navy SEAL Jim Schewitzer is killed during a mission, only to be brought back and assigned to a special unit where his unique skills can be put to use. After all, you can’t kill someone who’s already been killed. The sequel, Javelin Rain, will continue the story of Jim Schweitzer and his family, and Myke Cole has given us the chance to show off the final cover, which you can see after the publisher’s blurb.

Javelin: A code denoting the loss of a national security asset with strategic impact. Rain: A code indicating a crisis of existential proportions.

Javelin Rain incidents must be resolved immediately, by any and all means necessary, no matter what the cost…Being a US Navy SEAL was Jim Schweitzer’s life right up until the day he was killed. Now, his escape from the government who raised him from the dead has been coded “Javelin Rain.” Schweitzer and his family are on the run from his former unit, the Gemini Cell, and while he may be immortal, his wife and son are not.Jim must use all of his strength to keep his family safe, while convincing his wife he’s still the same man she once loved. Only what his former allies have planned to bring him down could mean disaster not only for Jim and his family, but for the entire nation….

Cole had a couple of thoughts on what the book meant to him:

Javelin Rain continues the story of Jim Schweitzer, the Navy SEAL brought back from the dead to help his country fight a secret war against the growing tide of magic surging back into the world. I wanted to continue tugging on the PTSD allegory thread I started in Gemini Cell. Schweitzer is now over the shock of being returned to life, and is having to figure out what his place is in the world now that he’s irrevocably changed. This is the central issue almost all veterans deal with, and one I think isn’t explored nearly deeply enough in fantasy. Violence has a price, and we need to think more carefully about what it is, and who has to pay it.

Javelin Rain will be released on March 29th, 2016.