And the key to the violent puzzle lies in the discarded corpses of women women for whom Tim must seek justice when no one else will. Driven by guilt, Tim vows to hunt Laurey down a search that will lead him into a dark world of deception and lies, a world of criminals and undercover cops, drugs and mutilation. A few miles up the road, a sheriff’s deputy is attacked: Tim’s pregnant wife, Dray. Just when Laurey is within his grasp, circumstances force Rackley to let him go with devastating results. Rackley, back on the Service’s warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law enforcement community driving him.

freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. The leader of one of the country’s most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. Marshal Tim Rackley a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice. The maestro of pulse pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. When his new secret life starts coming unwound at an alarming speed, he is suddenly caught in the most terrifying struggle he has ever faced a desperate battle to save his marriage, his career, his life, his soul…Īnd everything left that’s worth fighting for. But as he is dragged deeper into a deadly morass of hidden agendas and murderous justice, Tim Rackley discovers that playing God is an excruciating and fearsome task. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options a quest that leads him into a shadowy no man’s land between justice and the law…Īnd into the welcoming fold of ‘the Commission.’Ī vigilante group made up of people like him relentless streetwise operators who have each lost a loved one to violent crime the Commission confronts the failings of a system that sets predators loose to hunt again, cleaning up society’s ‘mistakes’ covertly, efficiently, and permanently.

marshal who is very good at his job until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.īetrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.

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