Dead Reckoning

Dead reckoning: navigation by known position, estimated speed, and elapsed time. No landmarks. No guarantees. Just the calculation and the will to follow it.

Daniel Cadwell came to Cobre, Arizona to do a simple job. Malikai is thirteen years old now, right shoulder burning in the cold desert mornings, and Daniel is beginning to understand that some missions have an end date.

This one won't wait for them to be ready.

Cobre's copper-country silence hides a network older than the town's current sheriff, deeper than its mining claims, and connected to men who have learned that the fastest way to move something valuable is to move it through people no one is looking for. Daniel has no jurisdiction. He has no badge. He has a ninety-eight-pound Australian Shepherd with a nose that doesn't care about jurisdiction.

And he has the particular patience of a man who has learned to navigate in the dark.

Dead Reckoning is the third Daniel Cadwell thriller - the book where the stakes get personal, the clock gets shorter, and the dog proves he was never just a weapon.

The Daniel Cadwell series: military precision, K-9 authenticity, and the kind of justice the system won't deliver.