The ResoluteIslamabad, Pakistan. February 2000.For former special operations soldier Maddox Hunter, Pakistan holds nothing but ghosts. His fiancée murdered, his friends executed or scattered, the big Australian wants only to say his farewells and leave the country behind for good. But some debts refuse to stay buried.When Texan contractor AJ Jackson befriends a ragtag band of orphans surviving on the streets of the capital, he discovers a predator moving among them. The Taaqatvar crime family-the feared TeeGees-are harvesting the city's youngest and most innocent children, and the price of their trade is paid in stolen lives. AJ and the men of Atlas Team resolve to intervene, but their act of conscience triggers a chain of violence that reaches from the back alleys of Islamabad to the highest levels of the American embassy.Because someone on the inside is feeding the TeeGees names, photographs, and movements-and at the top of their list is Maddox Hunter.As colleagues are abducted, loyalties are betrayed, and the Pakistani security services close in, Hunter and his oldest friend Spinner are drawn into a desperate race across Punjab and Balochistan. To save twenty terrified children and the men who risked everything for them, they must confront a merciless enforcer, unmask a traitor, and face down an enemy who has already taken almost everything Hunter loves.They cannot outrun the past. They can only stand and meet it-unbroken, unbowed, resolute. A gripping military action thriller of brotherhood, betrayal, and the fierce protection of the innocent.
