When ex-detective Jack Smith discovers the body of missing backpacker Grace Wilson during a hunting trip, he faces an impossible choice: walk away and return to his quiet exile, or risk everything to uncover the truth behind her death.
Jack can’t let it go. His discovery haunts him, driving him from isolation to investigate—and he quickly realises Grace’s murder is connected to something far more sinister than a random killing. Her death pulls him into the grim underworld of Ethan Kelly’s human trafficking empire. A brutal network shielded by corrupt officials at every level.
Jack can’t take on Kelly alone. He reaches out to his former partner, ex-Detective Senior Constable Alice Saunders, and the morally questionable drifter ex-Detective Sergeant Jasper Mitchell—a man whose past makes him as dangerous as the criminals they’re hunting.
Together, this unlikely team of damaged ex-cops must navigate a web of corruption, betrayal, and violence to bring down Kelly’s network. But in a game where the rules are written by criminals and the system itself is compromised, can three flawed heroes deliver justice—or will they become the next victims?


A gripping thriller about redemption, justice, and the price of doing what’s right when the system has failed.

This is the first book in the Jack Smith Series.