U.S. Army Captain Craig Forrest returned home after two dangerous tours in Vietnam. He studied law and started a career as a criminal prosecutor–a deputy district attorney for San Bernardino, California. He found himself angry when a bad guy slipped Justice on a technicality. Eventually Forrest recruited three close veterans who served under him to join him in solving part of the problem. Every few months they kidnap a felon, take him to the high desert, and give him a rifle, a canteen, a map of the area and a head start. Then the former soldiers hunt him, kill him, and dump his naked body in a vertical air shaft of the abandoned Bad Boy Mine.
When the D.I.R.T.B.A.G.S., the Dust Ingesting Road Trail Biker And Gunslinger Society, stop their off-road motorcycles for a smoke and pee break in the Mojave, they smell something rotten and spot circling vultures. Their search takes them to the vertical air shaft, and they call the Sheriff’s office. Deputy Sheriff Michael Hunt, a homicide investigator, arrives, and drops into the mine where he finds a fresh corpse and fourteen skeletons. He eventually identifies a few of the victims and concludes somebody is murdering felons and dumping their bodies . His partner, his captain, and his fellow officers tell him he should leave the “good garbagemen” alone.
Forrest monitors Hunt’s efforts, and he and his fellow veterans are confident they plan so carefully they will never be caught. They continue their successful sport while Hunt finds he can trust no one as he searches for clues and suspects.
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