The Kill Clause

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 .