Dead Ground

By: Chaddrick Gaines

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Cole Mercer Thriller

Cole Mercer came to Montana for a quiet hunt.

Instead, he finds a man in a suit executed in a remote meadow—miles from the nearest road. The victim’s last word is “survey.”

By nightfall, the body is gone. The blood has been burned from the grass. And the local sheriff is already calling it an accident.

Mercer knows better.

As he digs deeper into the backcountry, he uncovers a covert land grab tied to a massive rare earth deposit buried beneath protected wilderness. A powerful development firm has been buying up ranchland through shell companies—and silencing anyone who gets in the way.

When Mercer sends proof to state authorities, the response is swift.

So is the retaliation.

With armed contractors sweeping the forest and a staged wildfire set to erase the evidence—and half the valley—Mercer has hours to stop a catastrophe that will be blamed on lightning.

Outnumbered. Injured. No backup coming.

Just one rule: protect the innocent. Finish the job. Leave town.

In the Montana wilderness, the ground isn’t the only thing ready to burn.

Dead Ground is a hard-hitting, standalone action thriller perfect for fans of Jack Reacher, CJ Box, and rugged, no-nonsense justice in wide-open country.