1st & Dead (Paperback)

It's the year after Dan Kawowski and Jane Dockery had eliminated an al-Qaeda terror cell in Des Moines County, Colorado. Kawowski is now the county sheriff and she's an FBI agent specializing in counterterrorism. Dockery's first assignment is to help counter an al-Qaeda threat in the desert southwest. She's teamed with an ancient desert tracker, Old Joe Gannon, and his monster dog, Laddie. Once in the desert, Dockery and her patrol, discover that an al-Qaeda assassination team has made Kawowski, the love of her life, its main target.