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BACKTRACKER: AN ACTION-ADVENTURE THRILLER
A missing train. A deadly cargo. Seventy-two hours.
The Kill Creek Army Ammunition nine thousand fenced acres of Missouri prairie, nine hundred abandoned buildings, and a rail spur nobody watches after nine. Officially, it's a cleanup site. Officially, every container on Work Order 4471 is exactly what the label says.
Officially is about to get people killed.
Cam O'Callahan is fifteen. He and his brothers, Carsen and D.J. — and Luke, the hundred-pound German Shepherd Dog who appointed himself the responsible party — know the plant better than the government that built it. So when something rolls through the north gate that doesn't match its own paperwork, they're the only witnesses in nine thousand acres.
Nicky Vance, the federal engineer running the cleanup, signed the manifests herself. Roy Tessler, a railroad special agent with eleven thousand miles of jurisdiction, is hunting a train the entire network insists is somewhere else. What they're about to discover is the oldest trick never America finds its trains by reading painted labels — and somebody just rewrote one.
From the burn grounds of a dying arsenal to a forty-one-ton machine called REC-1 parked where no machine should ever be, BACKTRACKER is a heartland thriller about ordinary people who notice things — and the seventy-two hours when noticing is the only defense America has left.
Perfect for readers of Lee Child, C.J. Box, and William Kent Krueger.
Point of No Return Adventures · Book Nine — every book stands completely alone. Read them in any order. Nobody in them gets to.
They didn't hide the train. They renamed it.
The Kill Creek Army Ammunition nine thousand fenced acres of Missouri prairie, nine hundred abandoned buildings, and a rail spur nobody watches after nine. Officially, it's a cleanup site. Officially, every container on Work Order 4471 is exactly what the label says.
Officially is about to get people killed.
Cam O'Callahan is fifteen. He and his brothers, Carsen and D.J. — and Luke, the hundred-pound German Shepherd Dog who appointed himself the responsible party — know the plant better than the government that built it. So when something rolls through the north gate that doesn't match its own paperwork, they're the only witnesses in nine thousand acres.
Nicky Vance, the federal engineer running the cleanup, signed the manifests herself. Roy Tessler, a railroad special agent with eleven thousand miles of jurisdiction, is hunting a train the entire network insists is somewhere else. What they're about to discover is the oldest trick never America finds its trains by reading painted labels — and somebody just rewrote one.
From the burn grounds of a dying arsenal to a forty-one-ton machine called REC-1 parked where no machine should ever be, BACKTRACKER is a heartland thriller about ordinary people who notice things — and the seventy-two hours when noticing is the only defense America has left.
Perfect for readers of Lee Child, C.J. Box, and William Kent Krueger.
Point of No Return Adventures · Book Nine — every book stands completely alone. Read them in any order. Nobody in them gets to.
They didn't hide the train. They renamed it.
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2026
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September 20, 2026
A Good Old-Fashioned Adventure With Real Suspense
This one pulled me in pretty quickly. The mystery of the train, the old ammunition plant, and three brothers realizing something isn't right makes for a darn good setup. I especially liked how ordinary details and small clues gradually turned into something much bigger. The younger characters felt believable, and the story kept moving. A solid, suspenseful adventure that was hard to put down.
This one pulled me in pretty quickly. The mystery of the train, the old ammunition plant, and three brothers realizing something isn't right makes for a darn good setup. I especially liked how ordinary details and small clues gradually turned into something much bigger. The younger characters felt believable, and the story kept moving. A solid, suspenseful adventure that was hard to put down.
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