Shades of Mercy

Shades of Mercy

Book 2: Porter Beck
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In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins.

Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, doing the same lawman's job his father once did now that he's returned home after decades away. With his twelve person department, they cover a large area that is usually very quiet, but not of late. One childhood friend is the latest to succumb to a new wave of particularly strong illegal opioids, another childhood friend—now an enormously successful rancher—is targeted by a military drone, hacked and commandeered by an unknown source. The hacker is apparently local—local enough to call out Beck by name—and that means they are Beck's problem.

Beck's investigation leads him to Mercy Vaughn, the one known hacker in the area. The problem is that she's a teenager, locked up with no computer access at the secure juvenile detention center. But there's something Mercy that doesn't sit quite right with Beck. But when Mercy disappears, Beck understands that she's in danger and time is running out for all of them.

Release date: July 16, 2024

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Print pages: 352

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Porter Beck is the sheriff of a remote desert area in Nevada. He became sheriff after a decades long stint in the US Army, returning to where he grew up and taking the sheriff job his father had held. Beck is dealing with the death of a childhood friend, and also the death of the wife of the local grocer, both by opioids. While investigating how they got the drugs, he finds a super computer hacker who is only sixteen years old and that the government is involved with. Before the investigation is closed several people from more countries than the U.S. are involved, and some ar...
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Porter Beck is the sheriff of a remote desert area in Nevada. He became sheriff after a decades long stint in the US Army, returning to where he grew up and taking the sheriff job his father had held. Beck is dealing with the death of a childhood friend, and also the death of the wife of the local grocer, both by opioids. While investigating how they got the drugs, he finds a super computer hacker who is only sixteen years old and that the government is involved with. Before the investigation is closed several people from more countries than the U.S. are involved, and some are also dead.
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 on 6/13/24
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