The second novel in the award-nominated Byron Tibor series.
Having fled his home in New York, and still hunted by the Federal government, special forces veteran Byron is forced to intervene when he stumbles across unsettling events in a small Texas border town.
First book in the series was nominated for best ebook original at the International Thriller Writers' Awards in New York. Sales so far have been very strong across all main ebook platforms.
Chapter One
CIA Headquarters
Langley, Virginia
They wanted Byron Tibor dead. What they wanted, they usually got. Perhaps not immediately, or in the manner they had first envisaged, but sooner or later.
It was Lauren Stanley’s task, along with roughly a dozen other individuals spread out over the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and State Department, to make sure it happened.
But before they could kill him, they had to find him. And that was easier said than done. Byron Tibor didn’t want to be found.
That morning, Lauren finally had some good news. After months of dead ends and wild-goose chases, there was a solid lead.
She took a sip of juice, and looked away from her screen, then turned back to the man’s face on it in front of her. It was a low-resolution frame grab taken two weeks previously from a security camera in a Greyhound bus station at Corpus Christi in the Texas panhandle. Even with high-end image-enhancement software, it was hard to tell whether or not it was Tibor.
She moved back to the video footage, hoping to find something more concrete. Maybe the original data analyst at the NSA had missed a trick. She took a sip of juice (substituting carrot, apple and kale juice for coffee was her slender attempt to retain some sense of being healthy while pulling twelve-hour shifts at her desk), then ran back and forth through the footage.
