Vyper — Vikki Kestell

Task Force Resolute has a mandate to hunt terrorists online. Director Wolfe provides the funding and agency umbrella under which Resolute operates, while Bella Tobin serves as Resolute's team leader. However, Bella is not this woman's actual name. It is the current identity of Laynie Portland, spy extraordinaire, a field agent who operated under deep cover in Sweden and Russia for more than twenty years before coming in from the cold.Enter Resolute's top intelligence analyst, Jasmine Jessup, or Jaz as she prefers. In front of her teammates, Jaz cuts a touchy, solitary, and peculiar figure. She is not, furthermore, a trained agent. So why would Director Wolfe tap Jaz for a dicey field assignment—one he insists has her name written all over it?As it turns out, Wolfe, Bella, and Task Force Resolute guard Jaz's most precious secret: Within the upper echelons of international hacking, Jaz's brilliance and reputation are legend—for behind a keyboard, Jaz reigns as Vyper, the Venom Queen, a computer guru who instills both dread and reverence across the global hacker community.It is Vyper Director Wolfe desperately needs for this high-risk assignment.Few if any individuals alive are aware that Jaz, like Laynie, has a shadowed history hidden behind a thick wall of counterfeit identities—more aliases than even Laynie Portland could boast. And while Jaz trains for her assignment, she is unaware that she will soon face a dangerous figure from her past—an individual who will hold Jaz's life in his hands.