Bad Moon Rising: A Nathan Calloway Thriller

The cavalry isn't coming. Good thing he's Pararescue.

Sixteen-year-old Mia Calloway thought the biggest threat on her road trip would be terrible classic rock.

Then her father spotted a ghost at a Badlands truck stop.

Zahra is an Afghan refugee Nate Calloway failed to save in Kabul. Now she is being moved by a highly organized trafficking ring, and they have chosen their weekend well. It is the Fourth of July, the nation's 250th anniversary, and with a presidential visit and a cabinet full of VIPs drawing every available agent into a protective cordon, the region's law enforcement is stretched to the breaking point. The traffickers have a clear road and no one watching it.

No one except Nate. With no help coming, he and Mia track the mercenaries into the wilderness alone.

But the smugglers realize they are being hunted. They ambush the family truck and kidnap Mia.

Locked in a fortified compound, her captors think they have won. They plan to use Mia to force a frantic suburban father into walking away.

Mia knows something they do not.

Her father is a retired Pararescueman who spent decades pulling people out of hell. The mercenaries believe they have secured the ultimate leverage. Instead, they just provoked the one man trained to find her, and he will burn their entire world down to bring his daughter home.

If you love the unstoppable momentum of Jack Carr's The Terminal List and the father-daughter stakes of Taken, you won't be able to put this book down.