Off the Grid

Joe Pickett and Nate Romanowski are drawn into a mission that links Nate’s troubled past to a supposed effort to dismantle a domestic terror cell. The offer—help in exchange for clearing Nate’s criminal record—gives the story a sharp moral and practical dilemma, while Joe’s discovery that the operators have another plan complicates the alliance. Wyoming’s Red Desert is more than a backdrop: the description frames it as a punishing landscape where the operation puts both men at risk. The book combines crime fiction with a plot involving covert operators, a domestic threat, and the consequences of Nate’s past.