What is the nature of evil? What makes a person a monster? From NYT Bestselling author, West Point graduate and former Green Beret Bob Mayer comes a novel that raises those questions.
In 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman made Georgia howl. He burned a sixty-mile swath across the state to break the Confederacy’s will and end the war. He believed destruction on a massive scale was mercy in disguise — that hard war saved more lives than it took. He was probably right. But being right didn’t make it clean and history still argues it.
On the periphery of Sherman’s March to the Sea, a pack of killers operates in his army’s shadow. A former Andersonville prison guard and prisoners —Union men who had fed on their fellow prisoners — they rape, murder, and plunder across the Georgia countryside. Their leader is a one-eyed sniper known as Skull, a man the war didn’t break. It freed him. He is what waited on the other side of civilization’s leash. Sherman recruits three men: a black Union soldier, a frontiersman he knew from before the war, and an infantryman to track this pack down.
