After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge.

The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs.

For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Year’s trip to London, she is ready for a break. But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious—and suspicious—accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.’s car, things reach a breaking point.

At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransomware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture? And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger?

When Ali Reynolds’s husband, B. Simpson, and his airport shuttle driver, Hal Holder, are forced off the highway in an attempted vehicular homicide, local law enforcement assumes high-profile B. is the intended target. And since "it’s always the spouse,” Ali herself is high on the list of persons of interest. As a result, she and her cohorts at High Noon Enterprises set out to determine who was really the intended victim, and once they do, they will have to use all their resources to unmask the killer.

In a tale of revenge that covers the better part of twenty years and a good half of the US, this is a story in which it takes a whole village of law enforcement to stop a determined serial killer from escaping being held accountable for his crimes.

In the story, readers will meet cops of all stripes and from all kinds of jurisdictions working to set previous miscarriages of justice right. As each of those officers come into focus, we see who they are, where they came from, and how the current case resonates with events long in the past. Admittedly some cops are jerks, and there’s a bad apple in this crew, too, but most of the officers involved are doing their best solve their own individual pieces of a troubling case.

JAJ