The second installment in M.A. Lawson's thrilling Kay Hamilton series“Glock-toting, fast-thinking, wise-cracking… Kay Hamilton is one of the toughest [gals] going.”—Stephen Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of I, Ripper Kay Hamilton has paid the price for going rogue. Fired by the DEA, she’s now been quietly recruited by the Callahan Group, a quasi-governmental agency charged with accomplishing special missions for the president—off the grid. Kay and her daughter relocate to Washington, D.C., but before Kay’s completed her training, she’s sent to a hostile province in Afghanistan. There a mission that should have been purely political turns unexpectedly and explosively violent. Barely getting out alive, Kay follows a trail of deception and murder from Washington to West Virginia to England. Finding herself at the center of an international plot she begins to question those she loves…those she works for…and her own faith in justice.