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Backtrack

by Marc Cameron

A family feud crosses generations

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    New York Times bestselling author

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A family feud crosses generations

Backtrack links a 1977 armored-truck robbery and its missing diamonds to a present-day threat against Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter. The two timelines connect the consequences of his grandfather D. Wayne Cutter’s actions to the release of Ricky Lee Pink, whose old grievance now reaches toward the Cutter family. Much of the current conflict unfolds around an Alaskan cruise ship and the Inside Passage, giving the crime-thriller premise a wilderness setting. The story brings together a long-running vendetta, a concealed family secret, and the danger Pink poses to those close to Arliss.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of crime thrillers involving family history and long-running grudges.
  • Readers interested in wilderness-set crime fiction in Alaska.
  • Readers who enjoy stories built around a past crime and its present-day consequences.

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Intergenerational conflictRevengeFamily secretsUnresolved crime

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Book overview

On the deceptively calm waters of Alaska's Inside Passage, a generations-old vendetta catches up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter in New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Marshal Marc Cameron's chilling new wilderness thriller for fans of Paul Doiron, CJ Box, Taylor Moore, and William Kent Krueger.

1977. D Wayne Cutter is a former U.S. Army Green Beret, part-time horseshoer, and a full-time Texas deputy sheriff with a second grandchild on the way when a quiet Sunday morning ends in murder and a manhunt. The theft of five million dollars in diamonds from an armored truck leaves two guards dead, one outlaw tracked down and taken out by Cutter, and another, Ricky Lee Pink--two-hundred-forty pounds of teenage rage--sentenced to life. The diamonds were never recovered. And Pinky never forgot that heist gone violently wrong.

2026. Following in the righteous footsteps of his late grandfather, Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter gets word that Pinky has been granted release. Nursing a grudge for decades, Pinky vows to avenge the murder of his criminal mentor and find the whereabouts of the stolen gems that he believes is a buried Cutter family secret. Boarding an Alaskan cruise ship, and joined by two miscreant cellmates and his penpal girlfriend, Pinky aims for Anchorge--home to his ultimate target: everyone Arliss holds near and dear. Arliss must move fast because Pinky has the edge. And he has the mind to make the last living Cutter pay.
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