Jason Briggs

Backstory

Jason Briggs spent twelve years climbing the ranks of the FBI's field offices before earning his place in the Behavioral Analysis Unit—a promotion that came with both respect and unspoken resentment from colleagues who questioned whether he'd earned it on merit or optics. A meticulous investigator with a gift for pattern recognition, he built his reputation on solving cold cases by connecting psychological threads others missed. But success came at a cost: two failed marriages, a reputation for being coldly obsessive, and a personal rule never to get close to a case. The Crimson Trail murders shattered that rule the moment he saw the first blood-written message—Cold War references that echoed fragments from his late father's classified military service, a connection he's kept buried for fifteen years. Now Jason is caught between his duty to the Bureau and the terrifying possibility that this killer knows something about his own family's past.