But the vigilante life comes at a heavy price as he soon finds his life breaking down all around him. The group dedicates itself to correcting the failings of an imperfect judicial system and covertly cleaning up society of criminals let off by the law. Overcome by his need for vengeance Rackley joins “The Commission”, a group consisting of people, who like Rackley had lost loved ones to violent crime. Tim Rackley finds his honor and ideals tested as he watches helplessly while his daughter’s killer walks free on a legal technicality. The first book, “The Kill Clause” starts off with the brutal murder of his young daughter.

While most of his works are standalone novels he has written a four novel series based on deputy United States Marshal Tim Rackley. Thus his novels began to focus more on the emotion filled stories of common people facing uncommon situations. He became more interested in the trials and tribulations of the common man and developed a new found appreciation for the classic suspense setups where an ordinary citizen is caught at the worst phase of his life. Gregg Hurwitz grew up on a diet of Alfred Hitchcock movies and initially wrote fast paced super cop thrillers but marriage and starting a family brought about significant changes in his writing style. He has also taught fiction writing at USC and has published several academic articles on William Shakespeare. He has since guest lectured at UCLA and his alma mater Harvard. He excelled at sports playing college soccer at Oxford and was the scholar athlete of the year at Harvard. It was during his time in these two prestigious universities that he wrote his first novel, The Tower. He has a BA from Harvard University and a masters degree in Shakespearean tragedy from Trinity college, Oxford. Even as a child he would often would write stories and illustrate it with crayons.

Gregg Hurwitz grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and aspired to be an author since he was a little boy. His novel “I See You” was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year by the British Crime Writers’ Association. His books have also been picked as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs and have been translated into 26 languages. He is a New York Times best selling author whose books have been shortlisted twice for the novel of the year by the International Thriller Writers, honored as Book Sense Picks and nominated for the Galaxy National Book award. Gregg Hurwitz is a critically acclaimed American crime novelist and comic book writer.

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