On Sunday, June 22, 2025, American jets strike deep inside Iran, purportedly obliterating three nuclear facilities in a coordinated Air Force–Navy assault. The world exhales, believing the threat neutralized. It is wrong.In the shadows of Tehran, the Ayatollah invokes the Sword of Allah and unleashes the Leopard, a legendary assassin whispered of in intelligence circles and feared even among Iran’s enemies.When the Leopard’s trail leads to Nevada, Lieutenant Ray Santos, a South Lake Tahoe police officer and former Army Ranger, is pulled into a deadly web that stretches to the levees of New Orleans. What begins as an investigation becomes a race against time, to stop a killer whose vengeance could drown a city—and ignite a global war.problem: suspected murder and arson linked to the elite Redding smokejumpers of the Sacramento Valley. A veteran jumper plunged to his death when both parachutes suspiciously failed. 
 
Accelerants proved that three massive wildfires-the Park, Borel, and Lake Fires were deliberately set and each time, the smokejumpers were the only ones on scene. Santos agrees to infiltrate the close-knit unit, warned to trust no one. Smokejumpers are legendary, flying blindly into infernos, bonded by fire and danger. They protect each other fiercely, and outsiders aren't welcome. If Santos earns their trust, he might survive. If he doesn't, he may vanish into a canyon-another casualty no one will ever find.