

A heavy fog rolls in, leaving the village and the fishing lodge cut off until the fog lifts and/or the river freezes solid enough for travel. The body, along with a mysterious design drawn on the ground in blood, are discovered shortly after Cutter and Lola arrive in Stone Cross. The night before Cutter and Lola fly in, a young couple who are caretakers at a remote fishing lodge eight miles upriver from the village, are abducted and the handy man is murdered. Winter comes early to this part of Alaska, and though it still seems like fall in Anchorage, the rivers around Stone Cross are already beginning to slush, making travel by boat impossible.It is the season for hunting caribou and moose, major sources of winter food for the people in this region. Cutter and Lola travel under the guise of working a fugitive case-though their real mission is to keep an eye on the judge. The judge has received death threats but refuses protection.

He lives with his beloved wife in Alaska, where he enjoys various outdoor activities like sailing and adventure motorcycling.ĭeputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter (still carrying his grandfather's Colt Python revolver) and deputy Lola Teariki are assigned to protect an uncooperative federal judge when he travels to Stone Cross, a remote and road-less Native village in western Alaska.

Marc holds a second-degree black belt in jujitsu and is a legally recognized law enforcement scuba diver and man-tracking instructor. He has also written the Arliss Cutter series, and continued the Jack Ryan series originally written by Tom Clancy. Marc made his debut as a novelist in 2011 when he published National Security, the first installment in the Jericho Quinn thriller series. His career in law enforcement, which was heavily inclined towards dignitary protection and fugitive operations, greatly inspired his writing career. Marc also served as a member of the rural Tactical Tracking Unit for the US Marshals District of Alaska, where he regularly tracked lost hikers, hunters, and fugitives in the expansive Alaska wilderness. Marc Cameron is an American New York Times bestselling author of thriller novels.Ī native of Texas, Marc spent nearly three decades in law enforcement, where he retired as a Chief Deputy U.S.
