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During an unplanned deer-hunting day in the hot, humid woods, he suffers a sudden insect bite and quickly becomes alert to intruders. Confrontation escalates when two men in tactical camouflage enter his surroundings with firearms and suppressors, forcing Charlie to decide whether he is facing hunters, threats, or something more dangerous.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster  \nebook.  \nGet a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Sergeant Terry O ’Hara, 9/11 responder and NYPD officer (1976–2017); Betsy Harrigan, retired NSA employee and author (1945–2017); and Joan Digani, mother, wife, sister, and aunt (1950–2015). While theirfights are over, the battle wages on. As Terry said every time I talked to him,“Fuck cancer.”Amen, brother.  \nSomeday, we’ll all dance on the Big C’s grave.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nCalvert County, MD  \nCharlie Reker didn’t care for county oГcials. As far as he was concerned, the local politicians were just as power-hungry as the corrupt parasites that occupied the Capitol twenty-Йve miles to the northwest. Many a day he’d half-heartedly hoped that some lucky terrorist might Йgure out a way to blow up Congress and the morally bankrupt people it contained. The only reservation he had—the one that mattered most to him—was the innocent loss of life that would result. And that was something he couldn’t abide, no matter how bitter he was toward the federal government.  \nA Йfty-three-year-old mechanic with a rough face, short grizzled beard, and cropped black hair, he owned a four-bay, full-service garage in rural southern Maryland. But thanks to the moronic lawmakers and the last president, his income had signiЙcantly declined over the past several years due to the AАordable Care Act, which was a fucking lie of a name, if there ever was one, hand to God, he thought. In addition to his lowered earnings, he’d also been forced to lay oА his best mechanic, a young man who had a talent for quickly identifying any problem that plagued an engine, no matter how small or complicated the cause. The kid had been excellent—not as good as Charlie, but still great, nonetheless.  \nBut the cost of the limited health-care plans in Maryland had shot up exponentially, and the Йnancial burden had been more than he could bear. As with every other ill-conceived government plan, there’d been one more unforeseen eАect: he’d had to increase the number of hours he worked every  \nweek just to make ends meet. It infuriated him, but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. The septic tide would turn at somepoint, God willing.  \nIt was also why Charlie didn’t care that he’d violated the law six ways to Sunday in the middle of summer for the past three years, hunting for deer with a Stryker Katana 360 crossbow, the easiest hunting weapon he’d discovered and come to love as much as he loved anything. Idare them to come out andfind me. Fucking park-ranger Rambo wannabes. I’ve been playing in these woods longer than those baby-faced Ranger Ricks. 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