false 583317 3 <I>The Kill Clause</I>'s opening pages will knot the stomach of even the most seasoned crime reader. U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley is expecting his daughter home for her seventh birthday party. Instead he finds a fellow cop at his door, bearing the news that little Ginny has been savagely dismembered, her remains recovered in a nearby creek. Only an hour or so later, reeling with shock and grief, Rackley learns that the perpetrator has been caught--and that some fellow cops have arranged a little one-on-one meeting for him at an isolated shack, complete with an untraceable gun. Rackley arrives, faces this monster, and...<p> But that would be giving too much away. Suffice it to say that this powerful opening launches a killer thriller, rich in both adrenaline-pumping action and thought-provoking issues of vigilantism, power, and the moral dilemmas of those sworn to uphold the law. Hurwitz's prose is muscular yet intelligent; he draws characters well, and he unrolls action scenes with amazing vividness (as well as treating us to lots of fascinating lore about lock picking, identity theft, and cell-phone technology). Occasionally his plot twists verge on the outlandish, and a few characters seem to exist only to speechify on a certain point of view. But these are minor flaws in this fine, intense, often un-put-downable tale. <I>--Nicholas H. Allison</I> 570177 book 2003 The Kill Clause: A Novel total:41|5:9|4:21|3:10|2:1|1:0| 41 161 78 5 4 0 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Feb 04 17:23:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 17:24:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Sep 07 09:13:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:13:32 -0700 2009 ]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 06:33:32 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 06:37:37 -0700 2008 Gregg Hurwitz catalog. This is a fairly straight forward mystery/thriller. You can see the author reaching for something different and rising above some of the more formulaic action/thriller genre tropes that he had used in his previous books.

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