With Never Count Out the Dead, Teran exceeds the extraordinary achievement of his debut, delivering a tour de force tale of a murder gone wrong and a victim bent on revenge. The book opens with a gang of criminals in need of a fall guy. They target a Los Angeles county sheriff, John Victor Sully; plant damning evidence; and send their most vicious member, Dee Storey, and her 13-year-old daughter, to kill him -- except that he survives.

Unable to dodge the web of guilt they construct for him, he vanishes. Ten years later, a reporter tracks Sully down and gives him the tools to avenge his own "murder." Little does Sully know that one of his biggest allies could be the girl who buried him -- now 25, estranged from her mother, and caught between the villains who used her and the man whose near-death she has never forgotten.