About This Book
Pierce Hunt has spent his career running toward danger so others don't have to — but when his teenage daughter is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel with a 72-hour deadline, the mission becomes something far more personal. Simon Gervais drops readers into a world where DEA operations, cartel politics, and a father's raw desperation collide, and the stakes never feel abstract. The threat is immediate, the clock is real, and Hunt's willingness to burn everything down to save his daughter gives the plot an emotional engine that keeps the pages turning.
Gervais, a former RCMP officer and counterterrorism operator, brings procedural authenticity that most thriller writers fake. The tradecraft feels lived-in rather than researched, and Hunt himself is drawn with enough moral complexity to avoid the lone-wolf cliché — he makes bad choices for understandable reasons. The pacing is relentless without being breathless; Gervais knows when to slow down and let tension breathe before the next escalation. For readers who want action grounded in consequence rather than spectacle, this is a strong series opener that earns its punches.
