Tom Hall thought he had left his old life behind. He had visions of becoming a successful author and living an idyllic life with his new wife Mary. But, when the happy couple spend a honeymoon night in Memphis, Tennessee, Tom narrowly escapes death at the hands of two bumbling assassins and has no choice but to explain to Mary that both he and retired jurist John Chamberlin have been marked for murder.When Tom makes a phone call to his old boss, U.S. Navy Admiral Andrew Dahlen, the admiral summons an elite team, whose goal is to protect Tom and the judge, they must stop a man whose twenty-year hatred is driving him to take extreme measures as he seeks revenge against John Chamberlin, the man who sent him to a Louisiana prison.Their team’s problem: they don’t know who the would-be killer is, where he is, when he will strike or how many others will be part of his killing team.For ten days the normally idyllic farmlands of Minnesota are transformed into a chessboard where mistakes will lead to deaths instead of a simple checkmate.
