the law
is simple .
kill
and be
hunted,
a life
for
a life .
Ex-con Clayton Sparks has all the makings of a fresh start.
New friends. New love interest. Even a new job, thanks to a few pulled strings by the former.
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Ironically enough, the gig is security detail at headquarters for The Hunt Initiative, a revolutionary legislation that champions the hunting of convicted killers by the family and friends of their victims—even total strangers—all in the pursuit of justice. Created and led by Simon Klein, arguably the most powerful figure in America, the Initiative has nearly eradicated all forms of homicide over its twenty-five-year existence through its violent but effective eye-for-an-eye diplomacy.
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But when Clayton, an innocent man with a guilty past, finds his new life ripped apart for a murder he didn't commit, he must fight to prove his innocence before he becomes the Hunt's next prey. That means digging into a history he swore he'd left behind to give himself the only real shot at a future.
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Where will he run when there's nowhere to go?
Who can he trust if everyone wants him dead?
And what decades-old secrets will he uncover on his gripping escape for freedom? After all . . .
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no one has ever
survived The Hunt.
Dillon Wallace lives smack dab in the center of the country in a ‘burb just outside Kansas City with his wife, daughter, and their two ridiculous cats. While The Hunt Initiative is his first novel, he has worked as a writer in the advertising world over the past fifteen-plus years with several pretentious-sounding Davey Awards, Gold ADDYs, and DSA Crown nods to shamelessly plug for it.
His reading interests range from non-stop adventure/sci-fi (Andy Weir) and thrilling mysteries (Blake Crouch & Michael Rutger) to comedic LOLs (Christopher Moore) and all things macabre (Stephen King). He currently works as a Senior Copywriter for AMC Theatres where he flexes his movie buff muscles on the regular, absorbing as many captivating tales as humanly possible to help hone his storytelling craft and find creative ways to pen epic page-turners.
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"The Hunt Initiative is a new commercial fiction that draws influence from classic political satire and science fiction greats like Orwell's 1984 or Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, but does so with a fresh and more bloodthirsty take on the authoritarian agenda."