ABOUT THE BOOK!

Tony Valentine drives from Chicago toward Texas with his pregnant wife, anticipating a long life of law enforcement in his newly accepted position as a Deputy Sheriff in the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Department. He does not know that an assassin is waiting in ambush. The attempt to kill Valentine failed, but what appears to be an accidental highway crash with an eighteen-wheeler kills Tony’s wife and baby.

Sheriff Jackson visits Tony in a San Antonio hospital, while the injured deputy is recuperating from his injuries; the sheriff reveals his suspicions that the wreck is not an accident, but the work of the McCaskills, a sophisticated family in control of criminal activity in parts of South Texas. When Tony learns later that Sheriff Jackson had committed suicide, he vows to go undercover and to bring down the McCaskill Empire.

Upon learning that Tony might be investigating the family, A. J. McCaskill, the head of the family, declares, "If he’s in Texas, I’ll pay $1,000,000 to anyone who kills Valentine. If he is still alive when Max and I return from Switzerland, hold him for me. I will cut his throat myself."