Rafferty's Rules (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780645328332)

Rule 1: The client is always right.

Rule 2: When the client is wrong, see Rule 1.

When the client wants someone dead, well...

In the middle of a burger-store holdup, the only thing standing between ten-year-old Vivian Mollison and certain death is a police officer named Rafferty.

She lives. He gets fired.

Fast-forward fifteen years.

Vivian's parents are wealthy beyond counting while Rafferty spends his days as a private investigator, hustling on the streets of Dallas.

So when he gets an out-of-the-blue phonecall from the Mollisons, Rafferty figures his long-awaited payday might have finally arrived.

But things are never that simple and the story they have to tell is like nothing he's ever heard.

Can Rafferty save Vivian again?

Or is it already too late?

RAFFERTY'S RULES is the first book in the Shamus Award-winning Rafferty P.I. series by author Bill Duncan.

Fans of Spenser, Reacher, and Elvis Cole have declared this series a must-read with over 3,700 5 star reviews.

Buy RAFFERTY'S RULES to discover the hardboiled, wisecracking Rafferty P.I. today!

Praise for Rafferty P.I.

"If you like Parker's Spenser, or Robert Crais' Elvis Cole you should love the Rafferty series." - Mark A. Johnson.

"Rafferty is the best hardboiled P.I. of this era." - Wendy Green.

"Any fan of Micky Spillane, the Jack Reacher novels, or Mark Yost's Rick Crane novels should absolutely venture into the world of Rafferty P.I." - Michael Raabe.

"Duncan truly captured the pure essence of the definitive smart-ass private eye in his character Rafferty. Take part Sam Spade with a little Mike Hammer, mix in some Spenser and you have an awesome character." - Cliff Fausset.

"This author goes on my list of great private eye writers along with Kinky Friedman, Elmore Leonard, and Lawrence Sanders." - Tricia Schiro.