Tim Rackley · Book 1

The Kill Clause

by Gregg Hurwitz

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
388
ISBN-13
9780060573294
Type
novel

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About this book

The Kill Clause opened the Tim Rackley series in 2003, ahead of The Program. A legal technicality frees the man who murdered deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley's young daughter, and his collapsing faith in the justice system pushes him to join the Commission, a vigilante group of grieving parents meting out the punishment the courts won't.

Its place in Tim Rackley

The Kill Clause is book 1 in the Tim Rackley series. It is followed by The Program. See the full Tim Rackley reading order.

Before Orphan X, Gregg Hurwitz built his first ongoing series around Tim Rackley, a deputy U.S. Marshal whose faith in the justice system collapses in The Kill Clause (2003) when a legal technicality frees the man who murdered his young daughter. Rackley responds by joining the Commission, a vigilante group of grieving parents and disillusioned professionals meting out the punishment the courts won't — only to find himself hunting the group from the inside once its methods spiral out of his control. The Program…

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