Exfil

Every parent’s worst fear.

A child's bedroom with sunlight streaming through a window, a bed with a wooden headboard, a nightstand with a lamp, a bookshelf with trophies and books, and toys on the floor.

A man watching a baseball game on TV in a dimly lit living room.

Endless worry. Endless questions. No answers. No sleep.

Two men walking towards a large cargo airplane parked on an airport tarmac at sunset.

The impossible became the only option.

When the path disappeared, he made his own.

A man with a backpack standing on rocky terrain, looking at a sunset over mountains and a vast valley

A soldier with a rifle standing at the entrance of a dilapidated stone house in a desert village during sunset, with ruined buildings and mountains in the background.

Then… reality set in

A woman sitting at a kitchen table, holding a baseball cap and looking at it with a thoughtful expression, in a warm, dimly-lit room with family photographs on the counter in the background.

A family torn apart.

A world apart.

writer’s note

When I began writing Exfil, I wasn’t necessarily interested in telling a military story. I was interested in exploring a question every parent fears: How far would you go to bring your child home?

At its heart, Exfil is a story about family, resilience, and the impossible choices people make when those they love are taken from them. While the journey spans continents and dangerous territory, the emotional core remains deeply personal. A father searching for his son. A mother left waiting at home. A family struggling to hold itself together in the face of uncertainty.

Exfil is a thriller, but it’s also a story about hope, sacrifice, and the lengths ordinary people will go when giving up is simply not an option.