In order to understand this story you need a little background on the protagonist. At one time Hank Thompson had been a gifted young athlete, a baseball player with major league scouts at all of his games. It looked like he would be able to live his dream, but then a career ending injury made that dream impossible. Later on Hank is driving fast, late at night, when a calf wanders into the road. He swerves to avoid it, but a tire blows, the car flips end over end and his best friend dies in the crash. As this story begins he is a disillusioned bartender with nightmares and a drinking problem, but still a basically good person who helps people when he can. His life isn’t great, but he gets by and he has friends. He drifts along.

Then everything changes, he finds himself hunted by violent criminals who think that he can give them something they have lost. No longer drifting, he is sucked into a hurricane of death and destruction. His life has become a nightmare worse than the ones that wake him up at night.

This book certainly holds your interest, just as you are unable to stop staring at a car crash. It is a story of really bad things happening to good people, though the content was overly violent for my taste.