Shadow Ryder

He rolls into the fading town of Kimmswick, Missouri, on a dusty 1988 Honda Shadow, looking like a wild-bearded drifter looking for cheap repair work. The locals call him Frank Shadow, and they think he’s just a laborer who fixes rotted porches and leaky sinks. They are half right. Frank fixes things—but he isn’t a drifter. He is a former Chicago detective secretly backed by the FBI on an off-the-books manhunt to track down and destroy Enrique Alfaro’s cartel.

Frank’s cover demands forced inaction. But the town is rotting from the inside out. When a local teenager gets targeted by sadistic out-of-town enforcers, Frank shatters his own low profile to intervene. By pulling that single thread, he exposes the town’s darkest secret: the riverside warehouses have been turned into a trafficking pipeline run by Alfaro’s top lieutenants, with a local police officer keeping the perimeter clean.

Once a line is crossed in a town wired with fear, the shadows start watching everyone. With his federal backup hours away and the cartel shifting its patterns in the dark, Frank is forced to make a lethal choice. In a game where truth is bent and the law is compromised, he must rely on his own tactical instincts to confront a shadow network that plays for keeps. The cartel thinks they own this town. They are about to find out Frank Ryder is the wall they break themselves on.