Hard Ground

A Cole Mercer Thriller

By: Chaddrick Gaines

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Cole Mercer Thriller

Cole Mercer came to the Texas ranch for quiet work.
Long days. Hard ground. No trouble.

Then the phone rang.

An old Army friend is trapped in Cancun. His wife and two kids were kidnapped during a vacation excursion. For weeks he’s been chasing ransom calls and dead ends.

Mercer flies south to help.

But when he arrives, his friend is already dead.

The police call it suicide.

Mercer doesn’t believe them.

Now he’s alone in a city that runs on cartel money, corrupt officials, and men who make people disappear. The kidnappers have already moved the family into a trafficking pipeline that stretches from the streets of Cancun to jungle compounds no one is supposed to find.

Mercer doesn’t negotiate.

He hunts.

Safe houses burn. Transport vans vanish. Guards start disappearing in the night. Soon the cartel lieutenant running the operation realizes someone is dismantling his network piece by piece.

And Mercer is coming.

The rescue will cost blood.
Not everyone will make it out alive.

But Mercer didn’t come to Mexico to ask permission.

He came to finish the job.