First to Kill

Trained Marine sniper and CIA operations officer Nathan McBride cannot escape his bloody past. Not when the evidence of it is carved across his body. Now he owns a private security company, his scarred visage a warning to anyone who dares cross his path.When a deep-cover federal agent vanishes — along with a ton of Semtex explosives — McBride is the only man former FBI director Frank Ortega trusts to hunt him down. The catch? The missing agent is Ortega's grandson. And this mission is completely off the books. McBride is on his own…and that's just the way he likes it. McBride realizes, though, that there's more at stake than just one man's life when he finds himself caught between a ruthless adversary hell-bent on revenge and a group of high-ranking feds pursuing their own brand of justice. In this game, no one is playing by the rules…