"Jen Blaylock will kick your ass!" --Susie Moloney, The Dwelling

Revenge should be easy. A multinational corporation kills your family. You raze it to the ground. When it rises again, you blast it to pieces.

But Blaylock make a mistake: she showed mercy. Now, former CIA director Joe Chapel has gathered an army of graduates from the School of Americas to shape the United States into his own fanatical vision. And he will stop at nothing to succeed.

However, Blaylock has more to worry about than just Chapel. Her lover Michael Flanagan, once a touchstone of humanity, now craves destruction almost as much as she does. And her mercenary allies are as stable as rabid dogs. Like it or not, they'll be needed as Blaylock and Chapel charge Capitol Hill for the most epic showdown the US has ever seen.

In this third of the Jen Blaylock series, Canada's most fearsome rogue soldier finishes the job she started.

This time she won't make the same mistake.

David Annandale was born in Winnipeg and has lived in Edmonton, Charlottetown, and Paris. At the age of 16 months, he contracted laryngitis from tear gas in the May '68 Paris riots, giving him early insight into the socio-political upheavals of our world. He did his MA on the Marquis de Sade at the University of Manitoba and a PhD on horror fiction and film at the University of Alberta. His literary specialties are H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Ramsey Campbell. His film focus is on European horror, including Dario Argento and Jess Franco. David is also a scholar of video games and the gaming culture. Currently, he teaches English and film at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg where he lives with his wife and family.

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• Short-listed, Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

"When David Annandale writes a story, no one is safe ... sit back and enjoy the ride." — David Jon Fuller, Prairie Books Now

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"Jen Blaylock will kick your ass!" — Susie Moloney, author of The Dwelling

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