The Heavy Measure

About this book

Haunted by a betrayal that cost him his family, former CIA operative Gideon Cross wanders the American backroads as a penitent ghost, armed only with a battered book of Stoic philosophy and a lethal skillset he views as a curse. When he drifts into the decaying town of Black River, a quiet attempt to defend a local shopkeeper pits his desire for peace against a shadowy wellness corporation using the mountains for a deadly experiment. Forced to abandon his diplomatic resolve, Gideon must unleash the violence he detests to dismantle a conspiracy that runs deeper than the mines beneath the town. He is a man searching for atonement, but to save the innocent, he must become the reckoning.