Grief can be the spawn of betrayal as well as death’s debris, and when it morphs into revenge, grief can fuel infernos Satan would envy. High Order draws a picture of the deadly results that betrayal can yield. It drives one man to serial murder; sends a victim’s husband on his own deadly campaign for revenge; and leads a third person to form a devastating plan to prevent his ex-wife from remarrying.

When Baltimore’s citizens are in a jam, they call the police. When the police need help, they call the Emergency Services Unit, AKA the “bomb squad.” Lead bomb technician Hunter Morgan learned many valuable lessons during his three tours in Vietnam, but none more powerful than this: People are never more dangerous than when they feel they have nothing left to lose. Morgan, homicide detective Andrew Hermann, and journalist Dusty Rhodes form an unlikely trio in a desperate race to deal with the explosive results of the three intertwined cases.