From the award-winning pen of John Dwaine McKenna comes a searing new novel five years in the making . . .

Recently promoted and just out of the hospital after a long recuperation from injuries he received while battling the Lee Roy Morgan gang as they were trying to rob the Colorado Commercial Bank, Colorado Springs homicide detective Jake McKern is on his first case . . . the double murder of an elderly couple who run a small grocery on the 'Springs near west side . . . while at the same time, his personal life is crashing down around him.

With the only clue being a handwritten journal in an unknown and indecipherable language, the victims turn out to be Jews who survived Auschwitz and the horrors of the Shoah, the case suddenly takes on an international flavor with worldwide consequences.

The suspense ratchets up with each chapter as the beleaguered detective is drawn ever deeper into a morass of treachery, danger, and personal tragedy. It's Jake's darkest hour and his greatest adventure to date!