In one terrible instant, everything deputy U.S. marshal Tim Rackley believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his young daughter. He watches helplessly as her killer walks free on a legal technicality. And now his righteous need for vengeance is leading him into a shadowy no-man's-land between justice and the law ... and into the welcoming fold of The Commission.

A vigilante group of relentless streetwise operatives who have each lost a loved one to violent crime, The Commission confronts the failings of an imperfect judicial system, cleaning up society's mistakes covertly, efficiently, and permanently. But Rackley is about to discover that the price of playing God is much higher than he anticipated, plunging him into a desperate and devastating battle to save his marriage, his career, his life, and his soul.