Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever.
John Puller, a combat veteran and the top military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division, is a man with personal stakes in the pursuit of justice. His father, an Army fighting legend, and his brother, serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison, are part of his motivation. Puller's indomitable spirit and relentless drive make him a force to be reckoned with in the quest to uncover the truth.

Now, Puller is thrust into a case in the desolate, rural expanse of West Virginia's coal country, far from any military outpost. A brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered, is the grim discovery. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with her own demons, teams up with Puller. As Puller uncovers deception after deception, he realizes that nothing in this small town, and no one in it, is as it seems. He's up against a potential conspiracy that stretches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, a lone crusader for justice against an overwhelming force.