John McConnell has killed three men. Granted, they had it coming. Reconciled with his daughter, dating a beautiful woman he doesn’t deserve, stolen money in the bank, McConnell’s ready to hang up his guns. But the American Doctrine for Democracy are still murdering Americans. The reclusive hacker Hammurabi convinces McConnell to return to the shadowy highways and byways of America one more time to try and rectify that. Killing bad people for good reason is still murder and FBI agent Oral Duffield wants to put McConnell behind bars. Elise Hutchens wants the Travelin’ Soldier’s story. The Doctrine just want him dead.Trigger Effect is the second book in the McConnell Novels, and continues the resistance to the deep state's machinations.