Pardon of the Damned

A disgraced homicide detective, Elias Kane, is stripped of his badge after a panic attack costs his partner’s life. When the Federal Adjudication Bureau denies his PTSD disability claim by dismissing his treating psychiatrist’s opinion, he loses everything. As the untouchable crime lord who murdered his partner walks free, Kane wages a clandestine war of execution against those the law cannot reach. Hunted by his former protégée and abandoned by a fearful public, he spirals toward a bloody final stand, discovering that every act of vengeance was really a plea for self-forgiveness—a mercy far harder to grant than death.