AFRAID

AFRAID is a thriller that takes readers on a spellbinding journey into abject terror. Warning: Not for the faint of heart.

For years, the US government has spent billions of dollars training soldiers to kill. But now they have an alternative approach: training killers to be soldiers. Five murderers have been carefully selected to enter into a classified Special Forces unit, codename: Red-Ops. They are the most fearsome weapon ever created, meant to be dropped behind enemy lines. Their goals: Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate. Five Hannibal Lecters with Rambo skills. But something terrible has happened. Safe Haven, Wisconsin, population 907, is a tiny community of families and retirees, nestled between Big Lake and Little Lake MacDonald in the north woods. One road in, one road out, thirty miles away from everything. A town so small and peaceful they don't even have a full time police force. The Red-Ops helicopter has crashed just outside of town. The unit is now roaming free in the wilderness, heading for the nearest lights. Heading there to do what they do best: kill. Soon the phone lines are cut, the cell phones jammed, and the road blocked. Safe Haven's only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of an aging county sheriff. And as the body count rises, he's quickly realizing something terrifying maybe the Red Ops haven't come to his quiet little town by accident. Jack Kilborn is a pseudonym for Joe Konrath, who writes the Jack Daniels mystery series under the name J.A. Konrath.