"Taut and driving, Hildreth delivers another thrilling read." -Stephen England, bestselling author of the series "Badass Ben Williams rides again, this time rolling hard on Mexican cartels and Russian wetwork crews in this year's most relentless, grab-you-by-the-throat thriller." -Nate Granzow, author of the adventure series "A pulse-pounding action-packed thriller drenched in gunpowder and intrigue." -Kai Wai Cheah, Hugo Award Finalist and author of =================== April 20th, 2005. Three days have passed since Ben Williams survived the harrowing attack on Tucson's Saguaro Towers Hotel. However, the danger has far from subsided. Unknown to the public, the Saguaro Towers was a covert CIA station; the attack, an Iranian false-flag operation aimed at breaching the American intelligence apparatus. The Iranian operative responsible for the attack is in possession of sensitive information and has gone off the grid. Short on options, the CIA turns to a small start-up private military company to hunt the Iranian. In turn, that PMC turns to Williams and members of his old Special Activities Division team. Through bloody mercenary combat with multiple factions hunting the data in drug-torn Mexico, Ronin Defense Institute will be born, but there is no guarantee their company--or the shooters themselves--will survive.