Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers when a body is found in the centre of town. It's Barney Kissick the local heroin dealer and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother Shifty asks Mick to take a look it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be rehabbing his leg signing his divorce papers getting out of town and most of all staying out of the way of his sister Linda's re-election as Sheriff -but he keeps on looking and suddenly he's getting shot at himself.

Part of the Mick Hardin series.