Early Reviewers
A deputy and a wounded witness collide with a sprawling criminal network. The rescue was supposed to be the easy part.
When armed assailants storm a Nuevas Montañas hospital to finish what they started, Deputy Rick Hunter is shot protecting the woman in the bed beside him — and finds himself at the center of an investigation far larger than a single act of violence.
She survived because they made mistakes. So they tried something else: they made her disappear. Her name erased, her records rewritten, her life filed into a digital silence designed to leave no trace. Now Hunter has to keep her alive long enough to understand what, and who, she's evidence of.
What follows is a widening investigation into human trafficking, coordinated cyber frames, and an organization that doesn't just kill its victims. It deletes them. No records. No witnesses. No survivors.
The deeper they go, the more they uncover a system built not to be exposed but to outlast the people trying to expose it. The man at the top has no name in the files. The trail dead-ends in bureaucratic noise. Every official statement about the case being "dismantled" is a careful lie.
- Media
- Ebook
- Genres
- Suspense & Thriller, Fiction and Literature
- Length
- 201-300 pages
- Offered by
- J.Dale.Dillard (Author)
- Published by
- J. Dale Dillard
- Batch
- July 2026 Ends: 2026-07-26, 06:00 PM EDT
- On Sale
- 2026-08-01
- Countries
- Available in all countries
- Links
- Book Information
LibraryThing Work Page
A debut crime thriller set in the desert borderlands of southern New Mexico, informed by years of real-world emergency dispatch and law enforcement experience. Readers who enjoy border thrillers, police procedurals, and high-tension suspense will find the story of a deputy and the wounded witness he's trying to keep alive — facing an erasure-style criminal network — compelling.
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