“One man’s wilderness is another man’s theme park.”
Meet John Haig. Nature lover. Survivor. US Border Patrol agent tasked with tracking down illegals in the wilderness between Canada and Minnesota. An unhealed wound stalks the tracker every day of his life until the morning he finds Sam Means’ body. An event that hurls Haig on a collision course with a pair of maniacs. One, a devilishly crazy assassin. The other, a psychopathic monster with an inferiority complex.
As Haig puts it, “It’s a far cry easier to survive the elements than the human inhabitants.”
For four years he’s managed to bury his anger over the murder of his ex-wife, an alcoholic woman with borderline personality disorder. A mental disease that rendered her lust for violent chaos.
On Day One, he discovers the corpse of his old friend, Sam, at the foot of a waterfall on the US-Canada border. Haig resigns from his job later that night only to be forced to hunt down an eastern European assassin crossing illegally into the US.
On Day Two, he jumps out a helicopter the next morning smack into the epicenter of a Russian conspiracy to capture a child with a photographic memory and a mysterious disease. Haig is further entangled when he discovers that the child, Stefan, is the son of Sara Novak, a Slovak nurse renting Haig’s trailer home, and the only woman to arouse him since the death of his ex-wife.
Slowly Haig uncovers a bizarre set of characters connecting the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to the ghosts of his past.
Join Haig as he is thrust into a whirlwind survival saga. A story that begins the moment he sits down in front of his television to watch the game of a lifetime. The Cubs and the Yankees in the World Series. Wrigley Field, first game, first inning.
Just as his electric shuts off.
