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The Hand of God

The Wolf Behind the Veil

Exit 202

Fans of Se7en and Red Dragon — this is your next obsession.

Detective Bennett Jenkins had seen violence before.

But this was something else.

She sat propped against scorched bricks. Burned. Cleansed—the fire still smoldered in the morning light.

Above her body, a biblical verse stared back at him from the soot.

Not a clue. A judgment.

Jenkins told himself it was just another psychopath—another broken mind hiding behind scripture and fear.

He was wrong.

He was wrong about everything.

This was only the beginning.

THE HAND OF GOD

Detectives Jenkins and Barrientos are hunting a kingpin who may not even exist.

No photographs. No records. No social media.

A ghost.

Just a name whispered in the city's darkest corners:

The Wolf.

Millions move through offshore accounts in his name—proof that someone is pulling the strings.

An informant surfaces with a tip: a drug shipment, traced directly to The Wolf. Hours later, he's brutally gunned down.

But when Jenkins and Barrientos crack open the container, they don't find drugs.

They find children.

The discovery exposes a trafficking network protected by wealth, influence, and fear, turning Jenkins's hunt for the Wolf into an obsession.

Because some monsters don't hide in the shadows.

They control them.

A flat tire. No spare. No cell service.

When Micah's family vacation takes a wrong turn on a desolate California mountain road, hours pass without a single car. Just as hope fades, salvation arrives—a grizzled mountain man who tows them to his remote repair shop.

But something isn't right.

Trapped in the wilderness with a man whose motives grow more sinister by the hour, Micah must confront the dark history he's spent years burying. As lies and deception close in from all sides, he faces an impossible choice: become the protector his family needs, or let his past consume him.

In these mountains, not everyone makes it back to the highway.

A psychological thriller that will make you think twice before taking that shortcut.

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Jenkins & Barrientos

Step inside the grueling investigations of Detectives Bennett Jenkins and Angela Barrientos. Operating across bleak procedural lines, their relentless partnership tests the boundary between legal duty and obsessive pursuit.

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