A dark suspense thriller for fans of Dean KOONTZ and Stephen KING. EVERY FATE BEGINS IN DARKNESS… US Marine Sergeant J. T. Wheeler deployed to Iraq in the wake of 9/11 to help serve justice… only to commit atrocities himself. On the eve of the allied invasion in 2003 Wheeler’s company is unexpectedly chopped from its battalion and deployed ahead of Task Force Tarawa on a classified search-and-seizure operation. Its objective – an insurgent nest believed to be the last known location of a high value intelligence target. But the objective is not all it seems. The offensive begins with COBRA gunships decimating an isolated village and ground troops ordered to contain fleeing hostiles. But the hostiles prove to include women and children. And by the end of the engagement Wheeler is left with a killing field littered with bodies and questioning his CO’s use of excessive force on a civilian target. When a unit of private military contractors fly in to scoop up the alleged intelligence target he realizes he and his company are nothing but proxies for a mysterious black-ops mission. And that the war on the terrors of his mind and conscience has only just begun.