Can an idealist from the city stop his estranged friend in the country
from exposing a grim and damning secret from their past? On the surface,
Greg Simmons seems an utterly improbable informant. He's an idealistic,
Cascadia independence proponent from the city of Portland. When the FBI
calls on Greg to go undercover to investigate a dangerous militia
movement out in rural Oregon, he knows exactly why: his long-estranged
friend from the country, Donny Wilkie, could have deep ties to the
militia. Greg doesn't want the FBI's help.
He needs to pursue the threat all on his own, because his true motives
run far deeper--making sure that his former friend will never reveal a
damning secret from their past. Greg strikes out for the remote small
town of Pineburg, a fish out of water. As he grapples with his and
Donny's relationship and why it soured, as the threats to his worldview
and to hiding the grim truth darken and mount, he discovers that no one
is really who they seem, least of all himself. The dark misdeeds that
both he and Donny covered up for so long threaten to reap their toll in
the most deadly way.
