J. Dale Dillard

The Nuevo Montañas Files: NO SAFE HARBOR is my debut novel. A deputy and a wounded witness collide with a sprawling criminal network-and the rescue is only the beginning. When armed assailants storm a hospital to finish what they started, Deputy Rick Hunter is shot, and the attack reveals something far larger than a single act of violence. What follows is a widening investigation into human trafficking, a coordinated cyber frame, and an organization that erases people by rewriting their identities. As each lead pulls them deeper, they uncover a system designed to leave no trace-no records, no witnesses, no survivors. The closer they get to the truth, the clearer it becomes: this is not a case that ends with an arrest. When the system fails and the enemy has no name, how far are you willing to go to fight back?

I was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and grew up in Las Cruces. My background in journalism and information technology, along with experience working alongside emergency dispatch and law enforcement professionals, informs the novel’s procedural and cyber elements.