The Hollow: A Small-Town Carbon Conspiracy Thriller (Still Standing, Band 5) - Softcover

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The dog wouldn't go down into the draw. That was the first thing that was wrong. Down at the bottom lay a dead rabbit, a dead possum, a crow dropped out of the air — and no mark on any of them.

Sheriff Dell Rourke has watched his county taken apart four times. They came for the land, the water, the ground itself, and the metal in the deep water. He fought them each time — and each time the money walked away offshore, untouchable, behind a wall no law could climb.

Now the world wants what nobody ever thought to sell: the empty rock a mile beneath Hollow Creek. A distant industry is paying to bury its carbon down there and pocketing climate credits worth more than all the land and water combined. It's the perfect crime — nothing is taken that anyone can see. The county is proud of it. They're finally the good guys, saving the planet.

But the auditor sent to verify the credits found they were a lie — the storage leaks, the carbon seeps back up invisible into the low ground, and the money buying the fake credits runs straight up a chain of shells toward a name above the offshore ghost Rourke has chased for five years. Then they killed her, made it an accident, and took her files.

She left one thing behind: a wall, mapping the money all the way up — with a single empty box at the top, and a name half-written and crossed out beside it.

Rourke has done this before: a keeper murdered, a truth to finish, a machine to catch. But the map this dead woman left isn't a map of a local crime. It's a map of the chain of command — and for the first time in five years, it points all the way up.

This time the sheriff isn't fighting to save something. This time he's climbing.

The wall has never come down. This is the book where it does.

Some men read the ground true. And some finally reach the top.

A relentless, self-contained heartland thriller. New readers can start here.

For readers of Jack Carr, C.J. Box, and Jack Reacher.

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