Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is no stranger to sacrifice. Fourteen years ago, he paid a heavy price in service to his country when he was tortured to the brink of death by notorious Nicaraguan interrogator Montez de Oca. McBride is the sole survivor, his scarred body a living testament to the worst humanity can inflict and endure. Only he can bear witness. Only he can avenge the dead.When the FBI recovers a mutilated corpse from a remote Utah lake, McBride must face an ugly truth: Montez de Oca is back in action, and he will continue to kill unless McBride can stop him. And yet justice comes with a price. McBride’s hunger for vengeance will push him to the very edge, testing his capacity for mercy in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will reach into the highest levels of the US government.