A GRIPPING VIGILANTE MURDER MYSTERY

That summer, a monster appeared in a small town in rural Tennessee. Within two months the tall, powerfully built MS-13 gangbanger called Chupa had set up a lucrative illegal drug business, killed a local teenage boy, and kidnapped two young girls from the area to sell to human traffickers. Now Chupa has become fixated on his next target—high school student Anna Mosley.

When Bert Raso, one of Anna's teachers, fully realizes the danger posed by this malevolent brute, he and a friend form a plan to eliminate the threat to their town. But these two men are not the only would-be vigilantes. Bullets begin to fly—but with multiple victims and multiple suspects—and no evidence tying anyone to the murders, veteran detective Will Markus will be hard-pressed to make sense of the chaos.