The series that started it all!
A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly
inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.
Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is
very good at his job--until everything he believes in is shattered by
the brutal murder of his own daughter.
Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as
the killer walks free on a legal technicality. 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 . . . and into the welcoming
fold of "the Commission."
A 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. 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. 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 . . . and everything left
that's worth fighting for.
