Bobby Conklin came home broken. A decade after leaving a quiet life to join the Army, the ghosts of Khyber Pass follow him into the Adirondacks, where a tiny red packet and a sudden bank heist ignite a chain reaction no one saw coming. When the robbery at Plattsburgh Bank and Trust explodes into the deadliest in recent memory, Bobby's world collapses: two friends dead, his first love murdered in a shot he never meant to make, and a woman-Mariah Hannah-gone and labeled the mastermind.
As law enforcement, tribal police and a private mercenary outfit called GreyStar close the net, Bobby must decide what to protect: the battered code of his old unit, the woman he used and fell for, or the last thread of his own conscience. Every choice pulls him deeper into a moral thaw of guilt, loyalty and revenge. With a viral video, a cross-border manhunt, and the pressure of a prosecutor who wants answers, Bobby has to reckon with an enemy whose reach began in war and now iron-clads the North Country.
Who killed Mariah Hannah, and who will pay? The answer will cost more than money; it will demand the only thing Bobby has left.