Bradley Wright and two friends terrorized their high school.Rafferty watched the whole thing go down, clear as day. It's as open and shut as he's ever seen.So why does the killer's mother want him on the case?Rafferty couldn't do anything but stand and watch as Bradley Wright and two friends terrorized their high school; unable to do a damn thing until it was already too late.Two of the killers are dead, Bradley's on life-support, and if he ever wakes up the cops will be right there waiting to make sure he pays the ultimate price for the crime. After what he witnessed, Rafferty can live with that.So, when Bradley's mother knocks on the office door and asks him to help prove her son's innocence, Rafferty's first reaction is to tell the lady to go to hell.On the other hand, getting paid good money to poke around the edges of an open and shut case?It almost sounds too...

Rafferty's Rule 17: Never take a client at face value. (Amendment B): Or a case. Teenager Kimberly has run away with her boyfriend though her Mom, Kathy-Lee, doesn't want to admit it. All cases should be this easy; Rafferty'll have it wrapped up by the weekend. But with boyfriend Brian home alone, that idea bears rethinking. The last sight of Kimberly was of her putting the missionary in the position with the charismatic cult leader, Dariell Thof, and Brian doesn't know where she's gone since then. Or much care. By the time Rafferty tracks Kimberly to a remote compound in the Texas desert, he's stuck between a pack of gun-toting religious zealots, and an ATF agent playing hardball to protect his agenda. Can Rafferty get Kimberly out before the two sides come together and all hell breaks loose? He'll do his damnedest. And after what he's learnt about Dariell's twisted thirst for young girls, Rafferty's itching to...