Matthew Redd Thriller

Waiting to be deployed on a critical mission, elite Marine Raider Matthew Redd stops to help a stranger and wakes up hours later to learn his team was wiped out in an ambush. Unable to remember anything, Redd can't deny the possibility that he's somehow responsible for the information leak that led to the massacre. He's given a deal to avoid a charge of treason, but it means walking away from the Corps and the life he loved. As he faces his loss, Matty gets a cryptic message from his adoptive father, J. B.: "Trouble's come knocking...Might need your help." He points his truck home to rural Montana, only to discover that J. B. is dead and the explanation for his death is far from satisfying. Determined to dig up the truth, Redd uncovers a dark global conspiracy with his hometown at the center and no team at his back-except one he might find among past friends, old enemies, and new allies, if he can figure out who to trust.

From the Real Book Spy, Ryan Steck, comes another riveting thriller. On an island off the coast of Spain, Matthew Redd and his FBI fly team surveil a luxury villa in hopes of catching a high-value fugitive. But when Redd leads an unauthorized raid on the villa, he discovers they've been set up, and he is sent home to face the consequences of defying orders. Meanwhile, Redd's wife, Emily, is on a remote stretch of Montana road driving their sick baby to the doctor when she finds her SUV surrounded by a biker gang intent on harassing her. As the bikers pound her fenders and her infant son screams, Emily fights to keep the SUV on the road... and then suddenly the bikers back off, leaving her safe but shaken. Redd returns home, suspended from his team and certain that he is to blame for Emily's harassment after his run-in with the local biker gang the year before. Fearing that there is more to come, he prepares to defend his family. But Redd soon learns the gang is stronger in numbers than he could've imagined, and there is more behind their vendetta than he could've guessed. As his son's condition worsens and his beloved ranch faces financial ruin, he finds himself fighting a war on multiple fronts, one he can't win on his own.

Winters in Montana can be deadly, but it wasn't the cold that was killing Matthew Redd... Gavin Kline, executive assistant director of the FBI's Intelligence Directorate, is escorting a high-value prisoner with the intel to bring down a global conspiracy when their plane comes under attack. In the aftermath, much of Kline's team is dead, but he recovers a phone from a member of the hit team that reveals another attack is imminent. This time they're going after the man who was instrumental in capturing the prisoner and foiling their plans: Matthew Redd. When Redd learns he's in the crosshairs, he sends his family into hiding and heads for the mountains. He might be outnumbered, but the hit team will have to hunt him down on his own turf. With a snowstorm bearing down on Montana and no help in sight, Redd fights for survival in the harshest conditions. But when they take the fight to his hometown, he'll need all his allies at his back to save what he holds most dear. A page-turning thriller set in the heart of Montana, Ryan Steck's action-packed Matthew Redd novel is perfect for fans of the hit show “Yellowstone” and readers of C. J. Box and Jack Carr.

In this pulse-pounding thriller, former Marine Raider Matthew Redd, "a force to be reckoned with" (Jack Carr) and "the go-to man in a bad situation" (Brad Taylor), must face his greatest fears and figure out how to escape when the one way out goes up in flames. Matthew Redd doesn't go looking for trouble. But this time, it's found him anyway . . . and he's not the only one in the crosshairs. Late-summer wildfires are a fact of life in Montana. But as an inferno nears Wellington, Matthew Redd gets the unusual call that a team of smokejumpers has suddenly gone dark. As head of the county's fledgling search and rescue team, Redd drops into the fire zone and finds way more than he bargained for: a killer has taken out the smoke jumper team along with two civilians, and only a terrified young boy is left as witness. Redd and little Jack narrowly escape the raging fire, and Redd calls in Gavin Kline, now acting director of the FBI, to investigate the bigger forces at play. That afternoon, during one of her last clinic shifts before the birth of her second child, Emily Redd loses a young patient to an overdose. Fed up with yet another loss to the opioid crisis-this one a former schoolmate and a wounded veteran-Emily tracks down and confronts the retired doctor responsible for feeding her patient's deadly addiction. Hours later, when their home is attacked, Redd and Emily wonder which of them kicked a hornet's nest-or if they've both stumbled onto pieces of a much bigger puzzle. As the fire closes in, they follow the connections from a corrupt doctor and a local opioid supplier all the way to a murdered whistleblower for a Big Pharma giant. As Redd's concern for young Jack grows, those who want to silence him forever hunt him down. Redd will do whatever it takes to protect the boy and his family . . . even if it means he'll have to outrun an inferno and come face-to-face with his greatest fear. Gone Dark is the 4th gripping thriller in the Matthew Redd series: • Fields of Fire (Matthew Redd #1) • Lethal Range (Matthew Redd #2) • Out for Blood (Matthew Redd #3) • Also available: Redd Christmas, a Matthew Redd novella

I remember that promise to J. B. like it was yesterday. After losing his mom at age ten, Matthew Redd found a new home in Montana with J. B. Thompson, a man who knew the value of hard work and simple living. J. B. didn't have much reason to celebrate Christmas before becoming Redd's dad but threw himself into building traditions, including a tree, a few practical gifts, and the essential holiday movies: “A Christmas Story and Die Hard.” Eight years later, Redd realizes this is the last Christmas he'll spend at the ranch with his dad before heading off to join the Marines. He impulsively promises J. B. that even if they can't be together on Christmas Eve, he'll call every year without fail. It's a promise Redd keeps until the year his squadron is called in to assist when a nearby Special Forces team comes under enemy fire. The Marines' mission is to secure the scene and evacuate the wounded, but soon after their arrival, they realize the initial attack was only the first wave. Before long, Redd and his team are outmanned and outgunned. With the clock ticking down, he begins to wonder if this is the year he'll have to break his promise... or if he'll make it out alive.