Ina sun-blasted border town, the monsters don't hide in the dark—theyhide in plain sight.
MercerSample spent twenty years tracking fugitives for the US Marshals.Today, he’s a cynical bounty hunter operating on the unforgivingedges of Laredo, Texas. He survives by reading people andunderstanding the ruthless mathematics of the border: keep your headdown, collect the skip, and never ask questions. But when a routinehunt for a terrified, embezzling cartel accountant goes violentlysideways, Mercer steps into a conspiracy that will drench the Texasasphalt in blood.
CassidyLane is walking the desolate, neon-lit truck stops of the Interstate35 corridor with a bottle of whiskey and a loaded hand cannon. She’susing herself as bait, desperate to catch the elusive serial killerwho butchered her sister.
ButMercer knows the terrifying truth: the "Laredo Killer"isn't a disorganized psychopath. He’s a ghost.
Hisname is Silas—a highly trained special operations veteran workingas a cartel "cleaner." Silas is deployed to systematicallyerase women who inadvertently witness the underworld'smulti-million-dollar bulk cash transfers. Worse, the cartel assassinis being fed his targets by the very police detectives sworn toprotect the city.
Forcedinto a fractured, uneasy alliance, the burnt-out bounty hunter andthe grief-fueled vigilante must go off the grid to hunt the hunter.Navigating a labyrinth of corrupt cops, three hundred thousanddollars in stolen cartel capital, and a heavily armed corporateassassin who leaves zero loose ends, Mercer and Cassidy must writetheir own laws. In a town where justice is bought and paid for, itcomes down to basic math: kill the other guy first, or end up buriedin the South Texas scrub brush.
LAREDOis a gritty, relentless modern western noir thriller that grabs youby the throat from the first page and doesn't let go.
Perfectfor fans of:
Ifyou love the snappy, character-driven dialogue of Elmore Leonard, theatmospheric, hard-hitting tension of John D. MacDonald, and thecinematic grit of Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Yellowstone), you won'tbe able to put this book down.
