On a quiet spring afternoon in Lake Tahoe, Rhys "Taylor" Taylor is repairing a warped porch rail while his son plays nearby. It's the kind of peaceful moment he fought to earn-after years of maritime danger, covert operations, and enemies made in dark corners of the world.

Then the phone rings.

An attempted abduction. A professional hit on his closest friend. A warning carved in blood and smoke.

What begins as a targeted strike against Taylor's family quickly unravels into something far more sinister. From the forests of the Sierra Nevada to the steel corridors of a German high-security prison, from hidden trucking routes in Arizona to chemical weapons hidden in international shipping containers, a ghost from Taylor's past has resurfaced-Hans Müller, a master manipulator who built an empire from behind prison walls.

Müller's reckoning is ruthless. He wants leverage. He wants revenge. And he wants Taylor to watch everything burn.

With Kat's unparalleled cyber skills, Digger's grit, and two fiercely loyal Labradors standing guard at home, Taylor takes the fight across borders and into the shadows. Assassins fall. Networks unravel. Empires crack.

But Müller has one final contingency-an act of desperation designed to prove that even a man in chains can still kill from a distance.

As the stakes rise from personal vendetta to international catastrophe, Taylor must decide how far he's willing to go to end the threat once and for all.

Because when someone declares war on your family...

There is only one road left.

Retribution.