Ricochet

DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl and his CIA team embark on an off-the-books investigation and partner up with a ragtag crew of outcasts and outlaws to stop extortionists and dismantle their operation before complete devastation rains down in their Texas High Plains community in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of C. J. Box. After hunting down a rogue spy as part of an elite CIA counterespionage unit,Garrett Kohl returns home to Texas in hopes of settling down and carving out a normal life. While learning the ropes of fatherhoodfalling deeper in love with his high school crushand rebuilding his wildfire ravaged cattle ranchhe is approached in secret by an engineer working at a nearby nuclear weapons plantwho is in desperate need of his help. Utilizing a unique skill set–abilities Garrett has honed as a deep cover narcotics agent and former Green Beret–he embarks on an off-the-books investigation and learns that Iranian operatives are blackmailing weapons facility employees and potentially planning a devastating act of sabotage and destruction. Already engaged in an intense shadow war with Tehran and their Quds Force spiesGarrett’s CIA team rallies to take down the extortionists and dismantle their operation. But before they can get their mission under wayenemy commandos hijack a train carrying nuclear weaponsand activate a lone wolf assassin to murder the visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense. Caught flatfooted by the sudden attackGarrett musters the only help he can find–a ragtag crew of outcasts and outlawssome of whom he’d once put behind bars. Although they’re from different walks of lifeand opposite sides of the lawthey hold in common the deep desire to protect their homestheir familiesand their way of life on the remotewildand alluring Texas High Plains. From a former CIA intelligence officer and consultant for the Department of Defense comes an exhilarating thriller that shows the power in unity.