One shot can save millions. One mistake ends everything.
Travis Caldwell was the best precision shooter the Army Rangers ever had. Then they took his clearance, his career, and his purpose, leaving him at the bottom of a whiskey bottle with nowhere to go but down.
A woman with an eyepatch walks into his bar with an join an organization operating in the shadows where governments can't, conducting missions that don't exist to stop threats the world will never know about.
The stakes are global. The timeline is measured in weeks, not months. One trigger pull could prevent catastrophe or spark international war.
She says they've been watching him. That his skills are exactly what they need. That he can find purpose in the darkness.
Travis doesn't know who they are or what they're really preventing. He doesn't know if the targets deserve it. All he knows is that someone believes drowning in Texas whiskey is a waste of a talent few possess.
The work is morally brutal. The consequences are permanent. The weight never lifts.
Grab your copy and Will Travis become the weapon they need him to be, or will the moral cost destroy what's left of his humanity?
The story seems like it was written by the main benefactor helping the protagonist.
Several scenes made no sense. The bank was done like three times for some reason?
Conclusions of prior scenes don’t match the following scene. “Z will do X and not see Y for a while.” Next scene: X doesn’t happen. Y stays with Z for a while.
Random text from one food scene is inserted nonsensically into the other food eating scene.
Great idea for a plot-- but actually written by AI and lightly edited. Not edited enough.
As with most AI slop smeared on the screen, the computer does most descriptions as 1. make the point or the description, and 2. say something similar shorter, then 3. one or two words to repeat the point. It also changes the history of keys facts in subtle but growing ways over the chapters, not caught by the light editing.
I didn't notice the author when I started reading, then as I got into the book I said to myself, this guy is as good as Michael Anderle, my favorite writer. I've read over 500 of Michael's books and have enjoyed 95% of them. When I got to the author notes I was happy to learn it was Michael. 😊. You won't read any better than this book. Except perhaps the Zoo series.