He came to town with a duffel bag, a bottle, and a body count he's trying to drink away.

Daniel Briggs is a ghost in his own life.

A Marine sniper haunted by a brother who died screaming his name, he's been drifting across the country one bus and one bottle at a time — running from a war that won't let go, and from the two words that chase him into every blackout: your fault.

He never meant to wake up in Defuniak Springs, Florida. He sure as hell never meant to break a man's nose defending a terrified waitress. But Daniel can't stand a bully — and the one he put on the floor happens to be Johnny Laney, grandson of the man who owns half the county and rules the other half through fear.

His only friend is Hollie Herndon, an old Korean War veteran who took in a stranger, fed him, and asked for nothing — the last honest man on the last patch of land Max Laney doesn't control.

The Laneys want Daniel gone. They want Hollie's water. They're used to getting what they want.

They have never met a man like Daniel Briggs.

He came here broken. He came here to disappear.

But some men are built for one purpose — and when good people get pushed too far, the drifter with the dead eyes is going to remind an entire town what a United States Marine is capable of.

The reckoning is coming. And there's nowhere left to run. Book 1 of the Daniel Briggs Novels — a hard-hitting entry in the world of C. G. Cooper's million-selling Corps Justice series.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Jack Carr's James Reece, and Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp.