Blunt force kindness

Summary: "The girls yammer all the way to Colorado and Baer's ready for a change. Stinky Joe concurs. But a random Rocky Mountain storm combines with a slippy transmission to force Baer to the side of the road to be rescued by an unwitting copy with a secret. Sometimes good men contemplate evil out of love. Sometimes they need an accomplice with backwood skills... and a reputation that precedes him. Sometimes they're a day late. Baer never wanted to be a killer, and being one is killing him. Forced to choose between the lives of two young boys, Baer travels deep in memory to his days with Gunter Stroh in a North Carolina cave, where lessons offered were never learned. Every page brings torment and Baer's soul is in the balance. You haven't met this Baer Creighton, and you won't know him until you do." --