Christopher Rice

John Houck became a Marine to further his dream of being a hero. He failed to notice an explosive device that caused the captain of his Force Recon Company, a well respected Marine, nearly to sacrifice himself to save their lives. Home from Iraq, John pays the man a visit only to learn that he has been gruesomely murdered. Hotly pursuing a man running from the scene, John learns he is Alex, and he is not the killer: Alex is the dead man’s secret lover—and the killer’s next target. So John, fulfilling a debt of honor, sets out to teach Alex how to protect himself and in the process revisits his own family history.

Christopher Rice