John Ramsey's debut novel shows us the disturbing and often revolting mind of corrupt DEA agent Martin Fletcher. Violating the Socratic rules of fiction, Fletcher kills women and children in his quest for revenge. His violence is not excused by the rather traumatizing experiences of his childhood, in fact it makes him all the more evil. In Fletcher, Miller has produced the most thouroughly evil and dangerous bad guy of the year.The low point of the novel is the rather contrived and all-too-neat ending, which lacks the depth that characterized the rest of the novel.Fans of other writers as varied as Tom Clancy and Ronald Kessler with appreciate this novel.