From award-winning editor and former editorial director of Mulholland Books, Josh Kendall, comes a gripping page-turner--a love story wrapped in a spy thriller, set in East Africa.

If there is one thing former soldier-turned-private security contractor Lachlan Smith knows, it is this: do as you are told.

Following a brutal tour in Afghanistan and the untimely death of his former handler and lover, Helen Gray, Smith is sent to Ethiopia to protect a wealthy family. He arrives in Addis Ababa, heartbroken and full of questions—about Helen’s death, about the mind-altering training they endured together, about Cornerstone, the shadowy organization that recruited them both.

As Smith navigates the volatile ambitions of the Sebadi family he begins to realize that Cornerstone doesn’t just deploy men like Smith into chaos—it shapes the chaos itself. And its assets are expendable.

Josh Kendall’s electrifying debut I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits is a razor-edged spy thriller and a labyrinthine puzzle-box, exploring the cost of obedience, the weight of grief, and the brutal calculus of loyalty.