A man must surrender to his own violent instincts to protect the people he loves…

Entirely unlike anything Todd Babiak has written before, Come, Barbarians is a riveting, high-stakes novel about murder, revenge, love, loyalty and loss. The driving plot, in which a bereft husband and father races to save his estranged wife from a family of killers, is perfectly balanced by moments of surprising power and intimacy.

Christopher Kruse has come to France with his wife and daughter to become a better man—to escape his past as a high-priced security agent. When death comes crashing into their newly idyllic life, however, he’s forced to fire up old instincts to protect his wife and unravel a tangle of political loyalties that reach all the way to the highest office of the country. Ultimately, Come, Barbarians is the compelling story of a man forced to come to terms with his own dark side…