The Next to Last Moonraker into Brouillecourt Parish, Jim Hammer #2

They thought the war was over, but Jim Hammer never left the battlefield.

A decade ago, Captain Jim Hammer hunted Afghan warlords with a sniper’s focus and a soldier’s resolve. He and his team brought justice to the mountains of Kandahar— almost. One corrupt U.S. bureaucrat escaped the crosshairs, and now, halfway across the world, the war is back on.

In the shadowed bayous of Brouillecourt Parish, Louisiana, there are whispers of a large-scale smuggling operation protected by federal agents. Former members of Hammer’s old Special Ops team and Nicole Kirbye, a young accountant, are unwittingly dragged into the mysterious intrigue. When a murdered whistleblower’s warning is whispered to the anxious Nicole and killers close in, who can they call?

Jim Hammer is plunged into a deadly, high-stakes chase across Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana—where the moonrakers aren’t smuggling rum or even drugs, but weapons of war. U.S. military hardware—once abandoned in Afghanistan—will soon find new life on American soil, smuggled by a network of rogue defense officials, shadowy enforcers, and a Taliban-connected conman playing both sides.

At the center: Wallace “Wally” Gusche, a crooked DOD logistics boss; Abed Qalandar, a slippery war profiteer with Taliban ties; and Alexis Mondtrom, a government insider selling death to cartels. Backed by a loyal circle of his old war buddies and ordinary citizens turned patriots, Hammer launches a ruthless campaign to dismantle a conspiracy embedded deep within the U.S. government.

When the operation spirals into chaos—ambushes, double-crosses, cartel uprisings, and fiery shootouts— Hammer learns that justice doesn’t come with rules. It comes at a cost.