Swatted

"Nothing more dangerous than someone convinced they are right..."

The dream always starts the same way.

A full tactical team materializing from the woods behind the house. Men dressed in all black, with automatic weapons extended before them. A full assault, poised on the front door of the modest home at the edge of Butte.

It always ends the same way: six-year-old Chad Sigel screaming from his bedroom at the end of the hall, a near-nightly siren that makes rest almost impossible for his mother, Maya. The relentless cries have only deepened the guilt and confusion she's carried since the real event a month ago, when a fabricated story led the local police to send a SWAT team bursting into their home.

Running low on funds and options, Maya takes the advice of a friend and reaches out to Drake Bell at Montana Legal Services, hoping to hold whoever was behind the call accountable.

Well into the throes of a Montana summer with his beloved Zoo Crew, Drake accepts the case and immediately begins to dig. The start of a search that soon proves that what happened to the Sigels was far from an isolated incident. Enlisting the help of his friends, they unravel that this was part of a spate of similar attacks stretching back months across much of the state.

Hits that were far from random, all leading back to a motivation much larger and more explosive than any of them could have ever imagined...