Tim Rackley · Book 1
The Kill Clause
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9780060573294
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060573294