Author: dustinstevens
“I know you and I have been through some things,” Reed whispered. “Some crazy, crazy stuff. But we have never – and will never – work a case as important as this one.” Eighteen months ago, Detective Reed Mattox didn’t just lose his partner, the woman he met on his first day at the police academy and worked with for the entirety of his career thereafter. He lost his confidante. His sounding … his confidante. His sounding board. His support system. His best friend. Victim to a senseless shooting during a routine traffic stop, the details of that night are…
“His life is not a vacuum. The things he says and does, decisions he makes, reverberate in ways he can’t begin to fathom.” In the year since his tenure as Governor of Montana came to an end, Carson Wirth’s life has been little more than a victory lap with time spent back in his hometown of Helena, free to make the perfunctory rounds as something of a minor celebrity. Someone to give the … the occasional guest lecture at the local college or to offer a sound bite on the evening news. His existence isn’t without its benefits, but when…
“There was somebody else there tonight. They got at least two of the Wolves, and they also got the same thing I was after.”In the wake of his most recent encounter with the Wolves, Kyle Clady decides a new tact is needed. For as satisfying as slowly extracting his revenge might be, it isn’t what his wife would want.And it is getting him no closer to answering why she was targeted in the first … answering why she was targeted in the first place.Going back to the last known point of emphasis he has, he begins to come at things…
“You’ve started something you can’t finish.”Little more than a week ago, Kyle Clady’s life made sense. In the waning days of a decade spent as a Navy SEAL, he and his wife were about to embark on an adventure together. The details of it weren’t even complete yet, the two of them with an entire world to finally explore.Now, she is gone. Not only in body, but every possession, every memento, every … in body, but every possession, every memento, every tangible memory he has, all consumed by the fire that turned his home to cinders.A fire started by The…
The night was supposed to be a celebration. The culmination of another successful season for the guide service Hawk Tate and his business partner, Kaylan Quick, run together. A joyous occasion that saw them eat, drink, and toast the passing of another year.And ultimately ended with one of them in the hospital, both only narrowly escaping with their lives.At the same time, five hundred miles to … their lives.At the same time, five hundred miles to the west, Hawk’s former DEA teammate Shawn Martin and his wife are feeling equally festive. Back from a weeklong business trip, they put the…
On an isolated stretch of desert highway, Josh Reston is pulled over in the dead of night.By all accounts, he is a quiet, unassuming young man from the woods of Western Pennsylvania with a busted taillight. Until the arresting officer discovers more than a hundred pounds of cocaine and ten thousand dollars in cash stowed in the undercarriage of his vehicle.Brought to jail in the middle of the … to jail in the middle of the night, he offers to share everything he knows about the man he works for, Edgar Santos, and the operation Santos runs in exchange for…
Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9, Billie, are visiting his parents in Oklahoma — until a woman’s scream cuts their vacation short. Now Reed and Billie must hunt down a twisted culprit before he strikes again…
Three years ago, Ham retired to a quiet life in the remote desert of Northern Mexico.Realizing what she was doing would likely end in her death, she severed all ties, disappearing across international borders.Her retirement ended abruptly with a single message. The sole person in the world Ham feels the least bit of loyalty to is in trouble, in need not only of Ham but of the very skills that put … Ham but of the very skills that put her into hiding.Acting against every ingrained maxim, and ignoring the myriad warning signs popping up along the way, Ham returns…
With over 400 five-star Goodreads ratings: In this ticking-clock thriller, Ohio detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner, Billie, race to find a woman who’s been buried alive.
The gathering was supposed to have been a perfunctory media exercise on retiring Senator Jackson Ridge’s last day in office.When a grieving mother slips in and poses that simple question though, everything from Ridge’s own legacy to American interests in Afghanistan all get called into question. Racing against a ticking clock and powerful figures that would prefer to keep things happening across … to keep things happening across the globe a secret, Ridge must call on every last favor he has accumulated over the course of his time in office in search of answers. Answers that ultimately have him looking…