When MacAvity's Pub is fire bombed, a hunt for the perpetrators sets off a series of bloody encounters in the Gospel Hump Wilderness of Central Idaho and the steppes of Central Washington. It is feared that a war has broken out among two militias with ties to Finland and the Saulite Lutheran Church. Paul and Smoke are unwittingly thrown into the center of the conflict–a conflict which law enforcement is unable to keep from spreading.
When war criminal, Rojas Franzani, finally comes out of Cambodia nearly forty years after he was listed MIA, he's determined to take care of unfinished business–a small notebook his commanding officer had confiscated in 1967. He has learned that his C.O., now in his late seventies, is back living on his isolated farm at the foot of Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains–and that his only neighbors are a few ranches, a small dying farm town, and a handful of Camas...
