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**When an elite sniper team is betrayed in the Colombian jungle, the survivors discover the ambush was just the beginning of a deadly conspiracy that reaches into the darkest corners of America's covert world.**

A year after a mission gone wrong leaves him scarred and dishonored, former Special Forces sniper Gant has retreated to isolation on a Carolina barrier island. But when young women start disappearing and their bodies turn up in horrific fashion, the shadowy organization known as the Cellar pulls him back into the covert world he tried to leave behind.

Partnered with FBI profiler Golden and the lethal operative Neeley, Gant must hunt a team of highly trained killers who know all the tricks-because they were trained by the same people. As the body count rises and the trail leads from Florida beaches to Virginia farms, Gant realizes these aren't random murders. They're messages. And someone from his past is orchestrating a twisted game where innocent lives are merely bait.

**The targets aren't just dangerous. They're ghosts. And they're always one step ahead.**

Operating outside the law and beyond oversight, the Cellar exists to hunt those in the covert community who've crossed the line. But what happens when the hunters become the hunted? When the tactics of black ops warfare come home to American soil? And when the missing include not just strangers, but someone connected to Gant's own painful past?

From the author of the Will Kane series comes a pulse-pounding thriller that exposes the brutal reality of covert operations, the thin line between justice and vengeance, and the terrible price of secrets too dark to ever see the light of day.

**Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Mark Greaney.**

" . . . Mayer delivers top-notch action and adventure, creating a full cast of lethal operatives armed with all the latest weaponry. Excellent writing and well-drawn, appealing characters help make this another taut, crackling read." Publishers Weekly