"Drop the charges against Ram Castro, or we will keep killing." The last honest judge in Hunter, Montana is gunned down in cold blood. The killer has journalists and cops next on his list. And the Hunter Post gets a manifesto in their email with that simple warning. Crime reporter Sherman Iron has covered the Sureste drug cartel for years. He’s lost countless people he cared about to the heartless meth trade that’s turning his community into a war zone. Finally putting the cartel’s kingpin Castro in jail cost him almost everything. He’s not going to let the man go without a fight. The question isn’t whether more lives will be lost, it’s whether Iron or anyone he loves will survive. Everything he holds dear will be at risk. Every value in which he believes will be tested. In an apocalyptic showdown between a murderous drug dealer and a simple man trying to tell the truth, the streets of Hunter will run red with blood. Sherman Iron and Ram Castro collide in a final battle for the soul of the town, and the cost of survival may be higher than Iron can bear.