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The Program

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The series that started it all!

In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.

Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations.

Tim becomes enmeshed with a diverse band of characters—from the charismatic, messianic leader T. D. Betters to a cult reject burnout to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herself—and finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake: innocent minds—maybe even his own.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dylan Baker gives a strong performance in this story about mind control and murder. Tim Rackley's recent loss of his daughter compels him to try to save another family from similar pain. As a result, he agrees to resume his career with the U.S. Marshals Services in order to retrieve the daughter of an influential Hollywood producer from a cult. Hurwitz has done his homework when it comes to methods of psychological terrorism, and Baker skillfully negotiates the numerous characters in a way that makes it easy for the listener to follow the story line and understand how cults manipulate the naive. S.K.P. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 12, 2004
      Hurwitz's fifth novel continues the story of Tim Rackley, the U.S. marshal introduced in 2003's The Kill Clause
      . Tim and Dray, his wife, are slowly coming to grips with the loss of their seven-year-old daughter, Ginny, whose kidnapping and brutal murder was the focus of the previous novel. A more conventional series hero would be wreaking vengeance, but Tim's grief is plausibly amorphous. It wasn't always so. Rash vigilante action caused him to lose his marshal's job in The Kill Clause
      , but he's given a chance to get his old job back when a brusque Hollywood producer begs him to find his daughter, Leah Henning, a missing Pepperdine coed. Leah may have been kidnapped by an unidentified cult, and Tim must bone up on mind control and manipulation. Hurwitz illustrates Tim's lessons via Leah herself, whose step-by-step indoctrination is as creepy as it is believable. Intending to persuade Leah to leave with him for deprogramming, Tim infiltrates the Program, facing off with charismatic cult leader TD Betters, who has created a seductively logical society based on self-help tenets. Once Tim's inside, he realizes that rescuing Leah isn't enough: he's determined to blow the Program inside out. Grounded in character and believable detail, Hurwitz's thriller engages on every level. Agent, Matthew Guma. (Aug.)

      Forecast:
      The cult plot is a little shopworn, but Hurwitz gives it enough new twists to
      keep readers hooked.

    • Library Journal

      April 15, 2004
      Lawman Tim Backley is back, charged with rescuing a Hollywood exec's daughter from the clutches of a cult whose capacity for mind control is truly mind-blowing. With a six-city author tour.

      Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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