In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a 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 friend—now an enormously successful rancher—is targeted by a military drone, hacked and commandeered by an unknown source. The hacker is apparently local—local enough to call out Beck by name—and 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 detention center. But there's something Mercy that doesn't sit quite right with Beck. But when Mercy disappears, Beck understands that she's in danger and time is running out for all of them.
This was good although the first book in the series was excellent! I found the beginning dragging a bit and so many damn moving components but Porter Beck is a worth hero for a series. I will definitely purchase and read future books. I must mention that the setting was fantastic, too.
Sleep was something he neither coveted nor needed in any great quantity, so he drove in light traffic and under a full moon until the four lanes of interstate turned into two lanes of rural highway, and then for two hours more, until he parked behind a boarded-up gas station well off the road, plugged in the police scanner, and allowed himself finally to shut his eyelids and drift into the slightest of slumbers.He spent most of Monday driving the roads around the Lincoln County Youth Center. Now he was waiting for his moment.
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