Some men retire from war, Jim Hammer just changed battlefields.After twenty years in Army Special Operations, Jim Hammer thought he'd come home to Logan County, Montana, leaving the blood and betrayal behind. But when a friend is gunned down on a hunting trip by thugs operating under federal protection, he can't walk away. War has followed him home.On the opening day of antelope season, the county becomes ground zero in a clash between Hammer's old friends and Sunrise Land Holdings, a shadowy outfit with deep pockets and deeper secrets. The group has seized a remote stretch of once-open land, and when the ATF muscles out the local sheriff, Hammer smells corruption…and starts digging.With help from Lauren Stahling-the tough, resourceful county assessor from his complicated past-and a few loyal allies, Hammer uncovers a conspiracy stretching from Montana's rangeland to McLean, Virginia, and a former CIA black site outside Washington, D.C. At its core: Hambledon Global Advocacy Group, a counterfeit NGO masking a sex-trafficking cartel shielded by federal agents and a powerful U.S. senator. When the rules are written by monsters, justice demands a hunter willing to go off the books. That hunter is Jim Hammer.With blood spilled on both sides and innocent lives at stake, Hammer is headed for a showdown in the heart of darkness. When the mastermind-playboy sheikh and human trafficker Hamad bin-Sharia-arrives on U.S. soil, Hammer has one shot to end it all.
