{"product_id":"2940182679282","title":"The Cost of Command (Gravity of Command, #5)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lions Legacy — Book IV\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cost of Command\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Jaxon Reade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommand was never meant to be clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a fortified operations center half a world away, Daniel Reade authorizes missions he will never witness—decisions reduced to data, confidence bands, and approval prompts on a screen. No battlefields. No faces. Just outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe system works.\u003cbr\u003eTargets are removed. Risk is modeled. The metrics stay green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil one name surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs tempo accelerates and authority expands, Daniel discovers that modern command does not ask leaders to pull triggers—it asks them to continue. Each approval tightens the distance between responsibility and control, between legality and morality, between efficiency and consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen abstraction replaces accountability and models begin to absorb loss, stopping becomes harder than proceeding. The machine rewards consistency. It trusts him. And trust, at scale, carries weight no algorithm can measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cost of Command\u003c\/em\u003e is a relentless military and political thriller about leadership in the age of remote warfare—where power is exercised without proximity, violence is sanitized by process, and the true cost is carried long after the screen goes dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about heroism.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story about ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaxon Reade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47707908112625,"sku":"2940182679282","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940182679282_p0.jpg?v=1768833372","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940182679282","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}