Old habits die hard.<\/span><\/p>\nLife at the Frog Pond Bar was usually quiet, aside from a few Marine versus SEAL fights. Its owner, Hal Gleason, referred to it as the best way for him to slowly go broke in retirement.<\/p>\n
But trouble doesn’t just happen on deployment, and when the wife of an active duty SEAL comes to him after some toughs try to kidnap her daughter, he starts getting the team back together again.<\/p>\n
The more he digs, the more he finds that the kidnapping attempt was just the tip of a star-spanning criminal cartel. They have untold money, guns, and drugs… and Hal has old age, treachery, connections, and more than a few tricks up his sleeve.<\/p>\n
They shouldn’t have disturbed the still waters…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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