They Found Our Tracks (The Call - A Thriller Series Book 4)
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A gunshot victim. A satellite SOS. A stranger who is terrified of being rescued.
Deep in Idaho’s Selway country, experienced outdoorsman Caleb Whitlock is scouting remote terrain for a later elk hunt when he finds Daniel Harwood bleeding in the timber from a gunshot wound. Miles from a road and with no time to waste, Caleb activates his satellite emergency device and sends their location for rescue.
Daniel’s reaction is immediate: Don’t tell them where we are.
The message has already gone out.
At first, Caleb thinks pain and fear are talking. Then he studies the ground around them and finds what Daniel already knows. Someone else has been through the timber. Someone is following Daniel’s trail. And now Caleb’s tracks run beside his.
Moving a badly wounded man through rugged backcountry is dangerous enough. Moving him while an armed pursuer closes from behind turns every mile into a calculation. Daniel is losing strength. The terrain is stealing daylight. Rescue teams are trying to reach a moving emergency. And Daniel is still hiding the one piece of information Caleb needs most: why somebody wants him dead.
Outside the wilderness, Deputy Derrick Hauger begins pulling at a different trail. Daniel’s employer says there is nothing unusual to find. But projects recorded as completed were never done, equipment appeared where it should not have been, and one photograph contains far more than Daniel realized when he took it.
The deeper Derrick digs, the clearer the pattern becomes. Daniel did not stumble onto a simple paperwork problem. He found the edge of a criminal operation using remote forestry activity as camouflage. Somewhere in the backcountry, evidence remains hidden. The men who want it believe Daniel can lead them there.
One of them is still on his trail.
Caleb is simply the man who stopped when he found somebody hurt. But as Daniel’s condition worsens and the distance behind them disappears, Caleb must decide when moving is safer than waiting, when stopping is safer than running, and how much trust he can place in a man who has already kept dangerous secrets from him.
Because in the Selway country, tracks can bring the wrong man straight to you.
They can also tell rescuers where to look.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS BOOK
• A relentless wilderness pursuit where terrain, distance, injury, darkness, and limited communications genuinely matter
• A realistic Search and Rescue and law-enforcement response unfolding alongside the survival thriller
• Two ordinary men forced into an uneasy partnership where trust may be as important as first aid
• A grounded, fallible tracker who follows physical sign instead of impossible technology or superhuman instinct
• A layered crime investigation built from false records, stolen property, hidden evidence, and one revealing photograph
• A high-stakes Idaho thriller that delivers danger, psychological tension, investigation, and an emotionally satisfying resolution
INSIDE THE THRILLER
• Remote Selway backcountry survival
• An armed manhunt through unforgiving terrain
• A wounded witness with a dangerous secret
• A parallel rural crime investigation
• A race between pursuit and rescue
THEY FOUND OUR TRACKS is Book #4 of THE CALL – A THRILLER SERIES, a standalone adult thriller set in North Central Idaho.
If you love wilderness thrillers, rural crime suspense, realistic emergency response, relentless pursuit, and ordinary people forced to make impossible decisions under pressure, THEY FOUND OUR TRACKS belongs at the top of your reading list.
Someone is following their tracks. Someone else is trying to find them first.