A former Marine himself Betley proves himself an able heir to the throne held by the likes of Brad Thor and the late great Vince Flynn....Not to be missed (The Providence Journal). When Logan West impulsively answers a dead man s ringing phone he triggers a global race against the clock to track down an unknown organization searching for an Iraqi artifact that is central to a planned attack in the Middle East--one that will draw the United States into a major conflict with Iran. Logan a former Marine officer is quickly contracted as a consultant to assist the FBI as part of a special task force bent on stopping the shadowy operatives whatever the cost. The battles are nonstop from the plains of the Midwest to mansions in northern Mexico to the war-torn Al-Anbar province pitting an international team against trained mercenaries employed by the world s largest private security contractor...whose owner has a personal vendetta against the US government. Meanwhile Logan is battling his own demons especially the trauma of the ambush that his Force Recon unit suffered at an insurgent torture compound in Fallujah in 2004 which threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. With high-stakes and fully-realized characters Overwatch is a thriller unlike any you ve read before: deftly plotted up-to-the-minute and impossible to put down.