Trained Marine sniper and CIA officer Nathan McBride cannot escape his bloody past. Not when the evidence of it is carved across his body. Now he owns a private security company, his scarred visage a warning to anyone who dares cross his path. When a deep-cover federal agent vanishes, along with a ton of explosives, McBride is the only man former FBI director Frank Ortega trusts to hunt him down. The catch? The missing agent is Ortega₂s grandson....

Nathan McBride leads a secretive life. The ex-CIA agent doesn't give out his phone number and never reveals his operative name. So how does a twelve-year-old girl whom he's never met know both? The girl's name is Lauren, and after she's been kidnapped, she sends a text for help to Nathan's cell phone. Nathan rescues her, but with the kidnappers hell-bent on reclaiming their prize, the ordeal has only just begun. As he tries to stay one step ahead...

When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder--and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime--he does the only thing he can think of: he calls in Nathan McBride. CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend's plea. As they launch a covert investigation into Mason, the security chief for one of the nation's leading private military contractors, they discover that not everything is as it...