1. Charles Donovan was never trained to be a spy. A quiet CIA cryptographer, he lived a routine life filled with codes and coffee — until the day his wife was killed in a terrorist attack in London. When the agency deems it “collateral damage” and refuses to pursue justice, something inside him snaps.
2. Fueled by grief and a need for answers, Charles digs into encrypted files he was never supposed to access. Hidden beneath layers of code, he finds a trail—names, safe houses, and one mission gone wrong. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes: the attack wasn’t random. It was planned.
3. Knowing the agency will bury the truth, Charles does the unthinkable—he disappears. Armed only with his intelligence and a stolen flash drive, he goes rogue. He’s never fired a gun, never chased a target, but he’s about to enter the deadly world he’s only ever seen from a desk.
4. From Berlin to Istanbul, Charles hunts the operatives responsible. Along the way, he meets Lena, a disavowed field agent with secrets of her own. She agrees to help—but warns him: “This isn’t about justice anymore. It’s about survival.”
5. As Charles learns to fight, lie, and disappear, he uncovers a conspiracy far beyond his wife’s death—a rogue network within the agency, trading secrets for profit and power. His every move is watched, and every ally could be a traitor.
6. Betrayed by someone he once trusted, Charles barely escapes an ambush in Prague. Injured and outnumbered, he begins to question if he’s become the very thing he set out to destroy. But Lena reminds him: “You’re not a killer. You’re a man who refused to stay silent.”
7. In a final act of courage, Charles uploads the classified files to the press, exposing the shadow network to the world. He confronts the man behind it all—a former CIA director turned mercenary. No more running. Just truth, at any cost.
8. The headlines explode. Arrests are made. Charles, now a ghost in the system, disappears once more. Some call him a traitor. Others, a hero. But to those who knew him, he’ll always be The Amateur—the man who had no training, no power, and yet changed everything.
