Chuck Logan Boeken

How far would you go to protect your family? Phil Broker and Nina Pryce moved to Glacier Falls, Minnesota, seeking some peace and rest. No one in the wintry backlands knows about them or how, just a few months back, they were major players in averting a serious act of terrorism—one that has left them both physically and psychologically shaken. But when a schoolyard bully provokes their daughter, Kit, and she gives him a bloody nose, the Broker family is set in the crosshairs of a vengeful local clan, notorious for violence and criminal behavior, that includes ex-con Gator Bodine, who knows a thing or two about Broker's past as an undercover cop. And when Gator learns of Broker's role in a drug sting that resulted in the death of a mobster's son, he lets the mob boss know just where to find Broker. As Broker finds himself caught between a band of backwoods meth cookers and a hit man bent on revenge, he has no choice but to take justice into his own hands to keep his family safe.

It's 1979. Broker has contracted with the state crime bureau for a secret, risky, undercover job that no cop could do, and it just turned into an open elevator shaft.A former foreign agent turns up dead in a remote patch of woods. A ton of contraband is in play that could have international implications. Broker knows he's as flawed and fearless as the other members of his pick-up crew, but he can't resist following the trail into a limbo world where the shadows of the powerful merge with the shadows of the law. He only has one thing going for him. He's been there before.

No tears were shed when the hunt went cold for "The Saint" -- an elusive vigilante who earned folk hero status after fatally pumping twelve bullets into a known pedophile. Now, a year later, in the blistering heat of the hottest Minnesota summer in memory, a priest has been executed in a church confessional -- a medal of Nicholas, patron saint of children, stuffed into his mouth. The Saint may be back -- and retired law enforcement officer Phil Broker is being called into service as a favor to a friend. Only an outsider can dig deeply enough into an investigation the police seem to have no enthusiasm for -- but for Broker, it means stirring up dangerous ghosts from his own haunted past. And once he himself becomes the hunted, there will be nowhere to turn for sanctuary. Because this time the killer might be a cop ...

Bulvární novinář Tom James využil slabosti jednoho ze svých informátorů, na kterého poštval po pomstě prahnoucí gangstery a potom zavraždil jeho ženu. S miliony, které touto cestou získal, se uchýlí pod ochranu svědků. Avšak neústupný policista, z Vietnamu ostřílený Phil Broker, se rozhodne jednat proti zákonu, který je nedokonalý. Nakonec dosáhne spravedlnosti v psychologickém thrilleru nového autora, kterého kritika vítá jako budoucího prominenta žánru, jenž jako jeden z nemnoha nepotřebuje k navození napětí sofistikovanou technologii.

Harry Geiffin je samotář, který si prošel těmi nejsurovějšími okamžiky války. Přežil, veškeré své jednání podřizuje nehynoucí věrnosti a upřímnosti. Ale tragická hádka v minnesotských lesích, která po sobě zanechá mrtvolu mladého muže a ve vzduchu viset podezření, otestuje Harryho odvahu víc, než cokoliv předtím. Nic ho nemohlo připravit na děsivé ticho, které zvládne kolem incidentu, na výzvu, kterou cítí pulzovat ve svém těle a na smyslnou přitažlivost manželky svého nejlepšího přítele. Pátrá ve městech po odpovědích na své otázky, připraven bít kolem sebe ve strachu z temných tajemství, kterým se stále více přibližuje. Harry ignoruje nebezpečí, které mu hrozí. Až do chvíle kdy vše kolem vzplane ohněm nečekané zrady a krvavé dohody.