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Jack Widow #12

The Standoff

Name: The Standoff
Rating: 4.42 (2373 reviews)
Author: Scott Blade

Scott Blade

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The ultimate loner. Jack Widow comes to a Standoff with true evil.

ATF Agent Toni Adonis, sent an agent undercover, posing as a recruit in a mysterious militant-cult, called The Athenians. She watched him go through the front gates into their compound in rural South Carolina. But her agent never came back out.   

After an ATF raid goes horribly wrong, the group’s terrorist leader and his closest guards have escaped. Desperate, Adonis will do whatever it takes to catch him.

  Enter Jack Widow, a drifter with a dark past. Taking a ride, heading to warm climates, Widow spends a day with a close-knit family. But things go from good to deadly when the fleeing cult-terrorists end up at their front doorstep.  

Widow faces-off against the most horrifying evil he’s ever met in Book 12 in the bestselling Jack Widow series.

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