Before the revenge. Before the kill list. This is how the monster was forged.

Tom Lewis is broken. Gentle. Scarred. A boy who never grew past the bullet that shattered his life.

But inside him waits Jimmy Blue—silent, cunning, unstoppable.

Four years before avenging his parents’ murder in Winter Falls, Tom finds something he never thought possible: peace. Under the watch of Kai—ex-mercenary, ex-assassin—he learns to stand tall, to hope again. For a moment, the monster sleeps.

Then Kai is murdered. And Jimmy Blue wakes.

Now Blue is back, more dangerous than ever. Partnered with a man just as lethal, he follows the chain of command to Washington, and a conspiracy guarded by the Secret Service. The odds are impossible. The cost will be blood.

Because Jimmy Blue was forged in violence. And he’s just getting started.