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A GRITTY, HIGH-STAKES THRILLER WHERE FAITH COLLIDES WITH FURY.
When a missionary group is abducted by a sadistic cartel leader fueled by a vendetta against the church, Sheriff Lucas Stone faces his most personal battle yet. With the hostages' lives hanging in the balance, Stone joins forces with a battle-hardened ally from his warrior days to cross the border into cartel territory. Their mission: rescue the captives...and deliver their own brand of primal justice.
But time isn't on their side. With just three days before the hostages face execution, every second brings them closer to a bloody reckoning in the desert sands.
As Stone navigates a world where morality and survival clash, one question looms: when death comes to cartel country, will it claim the saints seeking salvation or the sinners reveling in bloodshed?
Fans of gritty thrillers and action-packed dramas won't want to miss this relentless tale of courage, sacrifice, and redemption.
Mark Allen
Mark Allen is a former federal attorney from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security. He left USCIS in 2021 after forty-one years of federal service, having advised USCIS management on a wide range of federal administrative law areas.
Allen is also a long-time student of the JFK Presidency. To tell Judith Exner's story, he conducted thirty years of independent research in archives and institutions across the country.
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