• Conan J. Higgins, Esq., KM, Ph.D., crisis leadership consultant and international business law expert, has officially reached #1 Amazon Bestseller status across multiple categories with his debut book, The Maverick’s Blueprint: Crisis Leadership for an Unstable World.

Cheyenne, WY, 4 Dec 2025,ZEX PR WIRE, Conan J. Higgins, Esq., KM, Ph.D., has achieved a major milestone as his book, The Maverick’s Blueprint: Crisis Leadership for an Unstable World, secured the #1 position on Amazon across several key business categories, including Strategic Management, Business Systems and Planning, Entrepreneurship Management, and Business and Money Skills.

Image: The Maverick’s Blueprint by Conan Higgins

Higgins, who is an expert in crisis leadership, international law, and high-risk operational command, has written the book as the only resource decision-makers need in the globally unstable and extremely pressuring business world.

The Maverick’s Blueprint: Crisis Leadership for an Unstable World is unlike traditional leadership theory. It is written for executives, entrepreneurs, project managers, and anyone responsible for high-stakes outcomes. It provides practical, battle-tested frameworks built from experience and through missions where failure meant damaged companies, collapsed multimillion-dollar ventures, or even lives lost.

From SWAT operations to combat-zone command to international business crises, Conan Higgins has spent 25 years leading when everything falls apart. He’s managed projects worth hundreds of millions across eight countries, resolved emergencies on multiple continents, and built teams that execute under extreme pressure.

With his debut book, he has laid out the strategies that worked for him and will definitely work for other such leaders. For him, the unconventional leadership principles that work when everything else breaks down include the DETECT Early Warning System (spot crises before they explode), the RAPID Crisis Response Protocol (a systematic framework for managing chaos), Cultural Intelligence Under Pressure (lead effectively across any cultural boundary), and the 41-Question Crisis Leadership Assessment (identify your strengths and blind spots). 

Higgins promises that these strategies can turn around failing projects, build unshakeable loyalty, and turn challenges into career-defining wins.

The book’s #1 Amazon ranking is the result of a strong response from readers who are attracted to Higgins’ unconventional approach. The audience loves the legal analysis, tactical operations, cultural intelligence, and high-pressure decision-making strategies that form a clear model for modern leadership.

The Maverick’s Blueprint is part of Higgins’ mission to provide leaders with the mindset and methodology they need to operate in uncertain environments. He adds his gripping stories in the book, which illuminate what it takes to lead when circumstances collapse and stakes rise.

Higgins’ #1 Amazon achievement also shows the relevance of his message: in an unstable world, crisis leadership is not optional but essential. It is the skill that determines which teams survive, which organizations adapt, and which leaders rise.

The Maverick’s Blueprint is now available on Amazon in Kindle and print formats.

About the Author

Conan J. Higgins, Esq., KM, Ph.D., is a crisis leadership consultant, international business law expert, and the #1 Amazon bestselling author of The Maverick’s Blueprint: Crisis Leadership for an Unstable World. He has over 20 years of global experience in high-risk environments, including SWAT support, combat-zone analysis, multinational project recovery, and international legal strategy. He is President of TSI Legal Enterprises, PC, a veteran-owned firm that provides business law, compliance support, and crisis leadership consulting. Higgins holds a Ph.D. in International Law and Treaty Law, a PMP certification, and advanced training in negotiation, safety, and human resources.

Wyoming, USA, 4th December 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Secure Legion has announced the public beta release of the world’s first messaging application designed to expose zero metadata. Built entirely without servers, directories, or intermediaries, the platform delivers fully peer-to-peer communication through Tor hidden services ensuring that no third party can observe who is communicating, when, or from where.

Unlike conventional messengers, Secure Legion replaces personal identifiers with Solana wallet keypairs, eliminating the need for phone numbers, emails, or any form of personal data.

A New Standard for Private Communication

Modern encrypted messengers secure message content but still leak metadata social graphs, contact networks, connection timestamps, and communication patterns. Platforms such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram rely on servers that inherently retain traces of user behavior.

Secure Legion removes this entire metadata surface through two core innovations:

A completely serverless architecture that prevents any entity from storing, relaying, or analyzing message traffic.

The Ping-Pong Wake protocol, a novel mechanism that delivers messages only when both parties are simultaneously online and authenticated.

Because no server ever queues or registers communication attempts, observers cannot build relationship graphs or infer interaction frequency.

Identity Through Solana Wallets

Instead of traditional account systems, Secure Legion adopts a self-sovereign identity model: each user’s Solana keypair functions as their cryptographic identity across both messaging and blockchain-related interactions. This model reinforces privacy, reduces attack surfaces, and aligns with emerging ecosystem standards for decentralized identity.

Engineered for High-Risk Environments

Secure Legion is already being adopted by journalists, activists, and crypto communities operating in heavily restricted regions. The Android client integrates Tor bridges such as Snowflake, obfs4, and meek, enabling reliable access in environments with deep packet inspection or aggressive censorship.

Message delivery follows an authentication-before-delivery process, preventing message-waiting or mailbox-style analysis one of the key vulnerabilities of conventional encrypted messengers. As one Secure Legion engineer summarized:

“Signal protects what you say. Secure Legion protects who you talk to.”

With no servers, no timestamps, and no retained message queues, communication patterns become indistinguishable to observers.

Open Source, Transparent, and Subpoena-Resistant

Secure Legion is fully open source under the MIT license. All cryptographic components including XChaCha20-Poly1305, Ed25519, and X25519 ECDH are publicly documented and implemented without telemetry, analytics, or background data collection.

The architecture is intentionally designed to be non-compliant with surveillance backdoors:

“You can’t subpoena a server that doesn’t exist.”

Key Features of the Public Beta

Android client available at securelegion.org and on GitHub

• Fully peer-to-peer messaging via Tor hidden services
• StrongBox-backed encryption on supported devices
• Text and voice messaging
• Built-in Tor bridges for censorship resistance

This beta release arrives amid growing global pressure on encrypted communications from the EU’s Chat Control proposal to the UK Online Safety Act and the US EARN IT Act. Secure Legion’s serverless architecture makes such mandates technically impossible to implement.

Context in the Privacy Ecosystem

Secure Legion responds to an issue long overlooked by mainstream encrypted platforms: metadata surveillance. Metadata exposes behavioral patterns, personal networks, movements, and relationships even when message content is encrypted.

Compared to existing alternatives:

– Session still relies on service nodes; Secure Legion removes intermediaries entirely.

– Briar exposes certain network patterns; Secure Legion eliminates visible trails and peer graphs.

– Signal reveals communication metadata to its servers; Secure Legion reveals nothing.

The result is a platform that implements true metadata-free messaging by design a direction recently emphasized by leaders such as Vitalik Buterin in calls for permissionless accounts and privacy-preserving communication systems.

About Secure Legion

Secure Legion is a peer-to-peer, serverless messaging project developed by privacy engineers committed to eliminating metadata surveillance. The platform is non-commercial, open source, and designed around censorship resistance and cryptographic transparency.

A formal security audit is underway. Upcoming roadmap items include group messaging, expanded privacy modes, and a desktop client.

Follow the project and join the community:

Official website | X (Twitter) | GitHub