When people he cares for are injured and killed, Jack Crandall knows his past has found him. To protect his family he embarks on a crusade that takes him into a dark world of drugs, prostitution and sex slavery, carrying his deadly, painful secret with him. Decades after entering the Witness Protection Program when his wife was murdered, Jack Crandall, formally known as Ted Reardon, arrives home to find his house burned. His pregnant daughter-in-law is on her way to the hospital after being found beaten and shot. Local detective, Paul Brennan, is assigned to the case and suspects Crandall is not forthcoming about his past. When Crandall's daughter is attacked at college and her boyfriend is killed, Crandall has no doubt that Alex Caruso, the man he helped put in prison, is behind these attacks. With nothing to lose the former Marine Corps Sniper makes the decision to initiate a campaign to end Caruso's reign of terror on his family and extract his pound of flesh on the men who carried out Caruso's bidding. Crandall returns to his home town Memphis, Tennessee on his quest and becomes allied with his estranged father and a childhood friend, now a conflicted priest. Both of whom have their own agenda against Caruso. Combining resources these three men wage a private war against the man who controls most of the drug and prostitution trade in Memphis. Only now they discover Caruso is expanding his reach into human sex trafficking in young girls. With Crandall missing, Paul Brennan, a combat veteran with Special Forces, continues his investigation while dealing with his own personal baggage and hardships. Brennan's search for the truth uncovers Crandall's deadly secret and the realization he has more in common with Crandall than appears on the surface. He also discovers that it's not just Crandall's family who is in danger. Meanwhile, events unfold in Memphis where Jack Crandall administers his own form of justice with the ruthlessness of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp or Tom Clancy's John Clark in Without Remorse.