Before the Rain

<p>A Special Operations fixer for Homeland Security U.S. Marine General Ray Hauser teams up with Air Force Special Agent Sunny Hicks to recover a stolen GAU-8 the Gatling-gun like nose cannon of the military's most destructive gunship the A-10 Warthog. The weapon fires three thousand rounds a minute each round's explosive power equal to a stick of dynamite. Attached to a flatbed trailer parked near Los Angeles traffic at rush hour three thousand people could die within police response time. <br><br>Ray has another more personal incentive to find those who stole the horrific weapon. His wife Alissa went missing years ago investigating a similar theft inside the same Arizona desert. If he can solve the GAU-8 case there's a chance he can discover what happened to his presumably dead wife even catch her killers. <br><br>But that stolen Gatling-gun-like cannon also holds special attraction for Jessie Maris unhappy wife of the weapon's chief thief Nolan Maris a career criminal who plans to sell the GAU-8 for half a million. Jessie has been abused all her life especially by the judge in a Family Court case many years ago. When her husband Nolan keeps her in the dark about his plans then physically beats her Jessie goes on a rampage that leads her and the GAU-8 to an old abuser and a crowd of innocents. <br><br>Can Hicks and Hauser stop her? U.S. Special Operations never dealt with a battered over-the-edge woman like Jessie before.</p>