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Book SynopsisIn the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challengesa series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins.
Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, doing the same lawman''s job his father once did now that he''s returned home after decades away. With his twelve person department, they cover a large area that is usually very quiet, but not of late. One childhood friend is the latest to succumb to a new wave of particularly strong illegal opioids, another childhood friendnow an enormously successful rancheris targeted by a military drone, hacked and commandeered by an unknown source. The hacker is apparently locallocal enough to call out Beck by nameand that means they are Beck''s problem.
Beck''s investigation leads him to Mercy Vaughn, the one known hacker in the area. The problem is that she''s a teenager, locked up with no computer access at the secure juvenile dete
