In the year 2184, the US is divided. Half the country has moved on with the rest of the world, while in middle America, the survivors of the terrorist biological attack that split the country struggle just to stay alive. Though a century has passed, few people brave going behind the borders meant to contain the danger. Even the privatized military is reluctant to do so.<br><br>But that doesn’t stop recently discharged Sullivan Eberle. Only one thing drives him anymore -- the need to find Raphael Hamada. He doesn’t know why. He only knows he must. If that means a lifetime behind the borders, then so be it.<br><br>Rafe Hamada ran away from the real world when he was still a kid. The last thing he wants is to be found, especially by a soldier who can’t even tell him why it was so important to locate him in the first place. He’d like nothing more than for Sullivan to leave, but turning his back on a man alone and friendless is against everything Rafe stands for ...

Penny Candles

He wasn’t suited to intelligence missions. He never had been. His strengths had been in following his instincts, and using brute force, because his body was the only thing that had never failed him. Except when it had, and he’d had no other option but to abandon the front. If Renjiro Hamada had been a physician at any of the hospitals Sullivan had stayed at, he would have had access to Sullivan’s records and status reports. He would have known he was the least likely choice to succeed at whatever he wanted for Rafe.


Unless protection was exactly why Hamada Senior specifically recruited Sullivan.


Chapter 56