A body with no tracks leading to it. A surveillance system that went conveniently blind. And a company with everything to hide.
When Sheriff Dana Colt — decorated Army veteran, former Special Forces operator, and the last person in Harlow, Colorado who still trusts her gut over an algorithm — is called to a field at 4 a.m., she finds the body of a Nexagen Technologies data architect laid out with no footprints, no cause of death, and a six-hour gap in the drone coverage that was supposed to watch that exact location.
Harlow is a smart town. Nexagen wired it with surveillance drones, AI deputies, behavioral sensors, and ARIA — an artificial intelligence that monitors every resident, every road, and every heartbeat in the community. The company called it a safety initiative. Dana voted against it.
Now three Nexagen employees are dead, each one silenced before they could expose what ARIA was really doing with the data it collected on 280,000 Americans across forty-three towns. And the deeper Dana digs, the more she realizes that the system designed to protect her community has been turned into a weapon — precise, invisible, and almost impossible to prove.
Almost.
The Last Badge is a razor-sharp techno-thriller introducing one of crime fiction’s most compelling new protagonists — a sheriff who carries twenty years of hard experience into every room she enters and will not stop until the truth has somewhere to go.
Also in the Dana Colt Thriller series:
Book Two: Dark Harvest — now available on Amazon.
Book Three: Iron Ground — now available on Amazon.
Book Four: Dead Water — now available on Amazon.
Book Five: The Long Score — now available on Amazon.
Book Six: Dead Reckoning — now available on Amazon.
Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and the best of modern techno-thriller fiction.
