The Last Pawn (Jaded Anthony, #4)

Book Four of the Jaded Anthony Series
Jaded Anthony has walked through fire, ice, war zones, and the corridors of power and survived. But in The Last Pawn, survival is no longer enough. After uncovering forbidden knowledge beneath the Antarctic ice and barely escaping the aftermath of The Silence Agreement, Jaded returns to Washington County, Pennsylvania, hoping to disappear into the hills that raised him. But ghosts don't stay buried, and neither do secrets.
When an encrypted phone call warns him that he's being hunted again. This time by operatives from multiple governments and unseen global forces. Jaded is thrust back into a high-stakes chase across continents. From the backwoods of Pennsylvania to the shadowed alleys of Pittsburgh, from Vatican archives to a sealed Soviet outpost in Siberia, he follows a trail of encrypted symbols and whispered legends. At the center of it all: a mysterious parchment rumored to be part of a lost map. a relic tied to ancient bloodlines, cosmic warfare, and a hidden gate said to lie beneath the surface of our world.
The game he thought he escaped has only just begun.
Allies are few. Enemies are everywhere. Marko, a disillusioned intelligence analyst, and Lian, a data specialist with a forgotten past, are his only lifelines. When a mysterious woman named Kira warns that Jaded is "the last pawn," he realizes the moves on the board are older and deadlier than anything he imagined. The parchment he carries is not just a key it's a beacon. And it's calling something ancient.
What follows is a relentless collision between memory and manipulation, truth and myth, human choice and divine design. Jaded must confront not only the elites that pull the strings of nations, but the war that began long before governments, religions, or even mankind itself. He must face the terrifying possibility that every step he's taken, every person he's lost, has been orchestrated.
Written during the author's four-year incarceration, The Last Pawn is more than just a thriller. 's a meditation on power, purpose, and the soul's ability to rise from ruin. Born in solitude and forged in truth, this novel channels the author's own transformation how pain became perspective, how mistakes became messages, and how a man on the margins used the written word to fight his way back into the light.
For fans of Dan Brown, 1984, The Manchurian Candidate, and The X-Files, this is a story that weaves real-world conspiracies with metaphysical questions, daring readers to ask: If you're just a pawn... what happens when you refuse to play by the rules?
Because every board has an endgame.
And this time, the last pawn moves first.

Gregory Rodgers is a truth-seeker, survivor, and storyteller with a voice carved from fire and forged in reflection. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gregory spent four years behind bars, years that could've broken him, but instead transformed him. In the solitude of his incarceration, he began to write, not just to pass the time, but to understand who he was, what he believed, and how he'd gone wrong.
That's where the Jaded Anthony series was born.
Through the fictional lens of Jaded Anthony, a journalist chasing forbidden truths. Gregory explored everything he had once ignored: accountability, legacy, power, control, and the war for the soul of humanity. Writing became his lifeline. Each page was a confession, a mirror, a prophecy. Every book in the series (Conversations with Darkness, The Forgotten War, The Silence Agreement, and more) reflects not just hidden history, but Gregory's personal journey from darkness to awareness.
His work draws on real-world conspiracies, suppressed knowledge, ancient civilizations, and elite control systems, but always returns to something deeper: the human spirit's refusal to stay silent.
Gregory writes for the outcasts, the broken, the curious, and the brave. For those who've seen the system from the inside and decided to expose it. For those who understand that sometimes you have to lose everything to find the truth.
He doesn't just write novels. He writes awakenings.