by Chris Holm
First published 2015
Michael Hendricks operates by a simple code: he kills hitmen before they can kill their targets. A former covert operative who disappeared after a mission in Afghanistan collapsed, Hendricks walked away from his military life and his fiancée to start over. Now he runs an unusual business. When someone puts a contract on your head, Hendricks will eliminate the assassin sent after you for ten times the original bounty. His military training makes him exceptionally good at hunting other killers. The work pays well and serves a twisted sense of justice. But Hendricks' specialty creates a dangerous problem. Every hitman he kills had connections, employers, and allies in the criminal underworld. His growing reputation as the man who murders murderers puts a target on his own back. As word spreads about his operations, Hendricks finds himself hunted by the same type of professionals he usually eliminates. The hunter becomes the hunted in a deadly game where his survival skills face their ultimate test.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: the-hunter-becomes-the-hunted, vigilante-justice
Setting: Afghanistan
320 pages · Hardcover · Mulholland Books
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder