Bosnia: Where The Shadows Began

Yes — around 300 words is much stronger for a back cover or Amazon description. Here’s a tighter version.
Some wars end. Others simply learn how to hide.
Bosnia, 1995.
Life Guards soldier Les Dawson is serving in a country still scarred by war, where every road can hide an ambush and every order carries consequences. When a routine patrol is diverted and suddenly comes under fire, Les believes it is just another dangerous day in a brutal deployment.
He is wrong.
More than thirty years later, an old photograph resurfaces. Twelve soldiers. A military vehicle. A forgotten location. At first, it means little. But hidden within the image are details that should not be there — a callsign, a strange marking and the first clue to an operation that officially never existed.
Then a man is shot.
Old comrades are watched. Military records do not match what really happened. Names from the past begin appearing in places they should not, and buried deep within forgotten files is a single phrase:
NIGHT SHADE.
As Les starts pulling at the threads, he uncovers links to hidden bunkers, altered records, missing witnesses and a secret archive in Germany marked with one name — ROLFZEN.
Someone has spent decades making sure the truth remains buried.
Someone knows what happened to Les and his men in Bosnia.
And someone is terrified that he might finally remember.
What began as a search for answers becomes a dangerous journey through old loyalties, military secrets and a conspiracy stretching far beyond the battlefield.
Because the ambush in 1995 was no accident.
The photograph was never meant to survive.
And neither was Les Dawson.
Where the Shadows Began is the explosive opening to The Shadows Conspiracy Files — a military conspiracy thriller of loyalty, betrayal, hidden operations and secrets powerful men will kill to protect.
The war may be over.
But the shadows are only beginning.
This length gives away just enough to hook the reader without revealing the bigger twists later in the book.