​The Queensland outback is an endless, blistering ocean of rust-red dirt—a place where men go to disappear. But Beau Walker isn't looking to hide. A former Tier-One black-ops specialist operating with terrifying, lethal efficiency, Walker is a ghost drifting through the sweltering heat.​When he walks into the dying outback town of Copper Creek, he finds a population suffocating under the boot of Vanguard Holdings. A ruthless corporate conglomerate has bought the town's debt, using brutal intimidation tactics on the locals—including resilient pub owner Mia—to force them off their land and strip-mine a multi-billion-dollar palladium vein. They expect the broken town to surrender. They didn't expect Walker.​In a matter of hours, Walker single-handedly dismantles the corporate stronghold, zeroes the town's debt, and walks away. But Vanguard’s Chairman, Arthur Vance, does not forgive humiliation. Operating from a glass tower in Sydney, Vance unleashes a team of elite, off-the-books cleaners to track the drifter across the searing interior highways and erase him completely.​Cornered in a remote roadhouse, Walker is forced to resurrect the violent skillset he tried to leave behind. Vanguard thinks they dispatched an execution squad to eliminate a minor nuisance. They are about to discover they just declared war on a machine—and he is bringing the fight straight to their front door.