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The Reckoning|Brad Carson

The Reckoning : A Small-Town Justice Thriller

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Overview

The letter came in the mail like the others had. No return address. One line that changed everything: This isn't a taking. It's a hit.

For six years they came to Hollow Creek to take things - the land, the water, the ground, the metal, the empty rock, the county itself. And six years running, Sheriff Dell Rourke held the line, and finally learned to climb - reaching up and pulling two men off the top of the wall, until the faceless money above them showed three faces and, for the first time, learned to be afraid.

Now there's nothing left to take. So they've stopped trying. And a man at the very top - Marcus Thorne, real capital, a lifetime untouchable, a philanthropist who has never once touched a crime with his own hands - is so afraid of the case climbing toward him that he does the one thing men like him never do.

He reaches down himself. Professional killers. A bomb under the courthouse. A decapitation strike on the prosecutor, the witnesses, the sheriff - everyone who could make him answer.

But Hollow Creek has buried six keepers learning how the machine kills. And this time - for the first time - the county is fast enough to protect the ones it's coming for. This time the hunters become the hunted. This time the county doesn't hold the line.

It climbs. It closes. It collects.

Because a man who reaches down to kill leaves the one fingerprint a lifetime of insulation never let him leave - and the strike meant to end the reckoning is the thread that completes it.

They came to kill the people who beat them. They forgot those people had stopped being prey.

For seven years, the money always walked. This is the book where it answers.

Some men read the ground true. And some counties become a reckoning.

A relentless, self-contained heartland thriller. New readers can start here.

For readers of Jack Carr, C.J. Box, and Jack Reacher.

This item is Non-Returnable

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798176235289
  • ISBN-10: 9798176235289
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: October 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
  • Page Count: 266

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