Butcher's Block

"Blessed" with a near photographic memory, Arlo Becker has been called a lot of things over the course of a long and successful career, not all of them fit to print. The heaviest mantle, however, has always been "Butcher," a decades-old moniker that still echoes clearly with the horrors of a Middle Eastern war zone that he'd barely managed to survive—echoes that (for someone like him) could never truly fade.

Leveraging his experience as a war correspondent, he would soon become a driven inve...