A Yemeni terrorist cell sails from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Mexico and comes ashore in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The jihadis purchase the help of a professional coyote, Octavio Manzano, to smuggle them north into the United States. Manzano's crew -- his brother, his son, his daughter and several nephews -- they marshal all their resources to assure mission success and a promised million-dollar payday. But their reward after penetrating the United States with their clients is cold death at the hands of the terrorist clan -- witnesses to the invasion of the Great Satan silenced. Only Octavio's daughter, Catalina, is spared and imprisoned so the clan leader, Shiekh Qahtan, can add her beauty to his war harem.
Professor Duff calls his cult "The Movement," a band of eco-warriors carrying out his pseudo-terrorist directives against the capitalist machine that he says is destroying Mother Earth. The Movement recruits vulnerable youth, mostly young runaways, and conditions them to slave for their leader and his radical environmental cause.
Operating stealthily in the college town of Eugene, Oregon, Sheikh Qahtan buys thirteen of the professor's cult members -- troubled teenage women who have already proven susceptible to mind control -- and uses a brutal system of extreme religious indoctrination to program them into faithful believers for the world caliphate. He molds them into zealous martyrs, fair-haired weapons of mass destruction aimed at bringing the Great Satan to its knees.
Best friends, Sindee Bower and Becki Hammett, along with eleven others, are swept from the professor's green movement into the Sheikh's brutal system of conversion. Sindee escapes and intends to rescue Becki before it is too late, but because of a bloody secret, she is afraid to press the police for help. She turns to Becki's father, Will Hammett, who sets out on his own to get his daughter back. He gets caught up in Professor Duff's schemes and Sindee panics when she doesn't hear from him; so she is forced to enlist Becki's grandfather, Will's father, Gus Hammett, to save both his granddaughter and his son.
The problem is: Gus, once a powerful prosecuting attorney turned prominent defender of wealthy criminals, is now a down-and-out drunk who would rather die in a gutter than face any fatherly, or grandfatherly, duty. But there is no one else Sindee can ask for help.
The Hammett family is so divided that to call them dysfunctional would be high praise. Addiction and abandonment is their heritage, bequeathed consistently to each new generation. Will Hammett, ex con and recovering addict, has neglected his daughter, Becki, all her young life. Now his plans of reentering her world to seek her forgiveness are turned upside down by news that she is held captive by some strange apocalyptic cult. Emerging from a childhood imbued with disappointment and bitter self-doubt because her father abandoned her and her mother hides from the world via alcohol and pills, Becki's uneasy soul has now been imprinted with a craven new purpose. She is convinced that martyrdom in Allah's name is her God-given opportunity for eternal redemption.
Alienated from each other and from their lost child, Becki's guilt-laden father, Will, and her gritty, alcoholic grandfather, Gus, choose separate paths to carry out their shared duty to fight for her deliverance. Coyote Catalina Manzano's drive to avenge her murdered family turns her into a cunning soldier bent on annihilation of the savage jihadis. Catalina, Will Hammett and Gus Hammett, these are the dogged warriors who must converge upon and vanquish a murderous band of zealots in the evergreen mountains and valleys of western Oregon. If the redeemers fail, not only Becki will die, but thousands of innocent families will be killed and America's sense of security will be shattered for generations.

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• Crime, Thriller & MysterySuspense
• Literature & Fiction

• Publication Date: October 29, 2014
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• Print Length: 514 Pages
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