He left the army to disappear. The army hasn't left him.

Marko quit the army three years ago and moved to a town where nobody asks questions. His hands are steady enough to rebuild an engine at midnight. The problem is everything else—the neighbors he's mentally mapped for threat assessment, the job he keeps quitting because someone reminds him of something classified, the way he wakes up at 0300 unable to breathe because the dream was real.





