In His Wake

Description

A political assassination draws an investigative reporter into a far-reaching conspiracy in a riveting thriller by Chad Zunker, Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Wife You Know and Family Money.

The death of reporter Dean Dawson’s estranged father in a boating accident leaves Dean and his brothers with mixed emotions. After all, the man abandoned his family and lived a life of inexplicable lies and broken promises. But four months after that fatal night cruise, their father is becoming a greater mystery than they imagined.

When a presidential candidate is assassinated in Austin, Dean is contacted by April North, his former girlfriend and an associate of Dean’s father at a powerhouse law firm. She’s stumbled upon a shocker. A cryptic text she wasn’t supposed to see on her boss’s phone not only implicates the firm in the assassination but also suggests that Dean’s father may still be very much alive.

As the brothers are pulled into a dark conspiracy, Dean and April are on the run as the next targets of a mysterious assassin–and one kill shot away from discovering the truth and a father’s dangerous secrets.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Chad Zunker
Published: 02/01/2026
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ISBN: 9781662534577
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.40″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Zunker, Chad: –

Chad Zunker is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Not Our Daughter, The Wife You Know, All He Has Left, and Family Money; the David Adams series, including An Equal Justice, which was nominated for the 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, An Unequal Defense, and Runaway Justice; and The Tracker, Shadow Shepherd, and Hunt the Lion in the Sam Callahan series. Chad studied journalism at the University of Texas, where he was also on the football team. He has worked for some of the country’s most powerful law firms and has also invented baby products that are sold all over the world. He lives in Austin with his wife, Katie, and their three daughters, and is hard at work on his next novel. For more information, visit www.chadzunker.com.