Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman, laconic hero of bestselling Eleven Days, returns in his own inimitable voice to investigate the murders of a police officer and an old doper, both gunned down during the routine police stakeout of a backwoods marijuana plantation. But as an emergency call comes in from a nearby farm where shots have been fired, a huge weapons cache is discovered, and Houseman finds himself up against a deadly splinter group of right-wing extremists . . . and a rising number of the known dead.