When investigative journalist Miles Clemens receives a photograph of Claire Donovan—the Washington Post bureau chief long presumed dead and the woman he never stopped loving—he knows the story isn’t over. It’s just begun.
Drawn back into a world he swore to leave behind, Miles reunites with Maya Rendón, his relentless partner in exposing a rogue presidency. But what awaits them is darker than corruption or conspiracy: a vast human trafficking network bankrolled by Middle Eastern royalty and protected by the highest levels of global power.
At its center is Claire, alive and undercover in a joint CIA–MI6 task force. Her mission: dismantle the network from within. But even she can’t stop the clock on a system built to disappear girls before the world ever learns their names.
Then comes Mo’nique Jenkins—a bold, street-smart teenager from Washington’s inner city who refuses to look away. When her best friend vanishes, Mo’nique steps into the fight, forcing the truth into the light with nothing but courage and a cell phone.
As governments falter and justice stalls, three lives converge in a race to expose what the powerful would rather bury—and a reckoning that no one sees coming.
Taut, timely, and deeply human, The Manifest is a political thriller that refuses to blink, asking what truth is worth—and who pays the price to reveal it.
