During a mission, Maverick Peterson uncovered a highly concealed list of traitors. However, just as he was about to complete his mission, he met his end at the hands of Felipe Lester, his most trusted captain. The moment the projectile tore through his body, he heard himself being branded a "traitor". His body was burned, and his reputation was trampled. His mother's house was vandalized, his father was left paralyzed from the shock and anger, and his wife even remarried the killer, with their daughter calling the enemy "dad". Three years later, by a stroke of fate, Maverick's charred remains were unearthed. The memory card he had clutched tightly in front of him became the only hope to clear his name...

Chapter 1

That drug raid should have ended perfectly—the narcotics den was destroyed, and the entire team had pulled out.

But in the rubble, I found that list of protectors, enough to bring down the entire drug chain.

When I desperately rushed back with the blood-stained evidence, what greeted me was my captain Felipe Lester's gun.

The moment the bullet pierced my chest, I heard him shout into the radio, "Maverick Peterson has turned traitor! He's covering for the cartel!"

I was gunned down by my own comrades on the border, my body hastily burned.

Overnight, my name was carved onto the wall of shame.

My mother's windows were smashed. My father, driven to rage, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was left paralyzed.

Adrienne Olsen, my wife, married Felipe and took my daughter, Paula Peterson, with her as his stepdaughter.

Three years later, during the reconstruction of the border monument, a charred skeleton was unearthed from the ground.

That fireproof memory card, which I had