Three families. Three attacks. Zero evidence.
Someone is targeting the most powerful officials in Washoe County, and they're doing it with military precision. No fingerprints. No witnesses. Just controlled violence and a phrase carved into the walls of their homes.Justice delayed is justice denied.
Chief Detective Hector Ramirez connects the attacks to a twenty-five-year-old murder conviction that made careers and destroyed lives. Marcus Sullivan died in prison for a crime he didn't commit. His wife followed him to the grave. Their son Ryan grew up alone, holding a sign on courthouse steps that nobody stopped to read.
Now Ryan Sullivan has stopped asking.
He's built a team of specialists, each one broken by the same institutions they once served. Each one carrying skills that make them nearly impossible to catch. And every move they make points toward a single target: Sheriff Dale Thompson, the man whose signature sits on the arrest report that started it all.
As Election Day closes in, a manifesto goes viral, the county splits apart, and Hector finds himself racing to stop an operation eighteen years in the making. But Sullivan planned for everything, including the people trying to stop him.
The clock is running. The whole country is watching. And the truth about Marcus Sullivan can't stay buried any longer.
The only question is what it costs to dig it up.
Countdown is the tenth book in the Hector Ramirez series, a gripping police procedural exploring the devastating consequences when justice arrives too late, and what happens when someone decides to collect the debt themselves.
Genre: Mystery