Patrick T Heffernan

Rampage Patrick T Heffernan

Deacon County, Texas. It's home to 155,000 people, a rural county of around 900 square miles, a place where people don't even lock their doors when they leave home. The sheriff is 27-year-old Billy "Crash" Braddock, groomed young to have been sheriff by his predecessor, Ernie Chavez. But Ernie's plan of spending ten years shepherding Crash into the top spot is set aside when he's medically retired after an injury, an amputation, and a heart attack make a perfect storm to force him out. Using the county political machine, Chavez sees to it that his protégé is elected sheriff. But Billy is smart enough to feel unequal to the demands of his lofty position. Then a serial killer appears, first with the gruesome killing of Jack Terrence, a local bad boy Lothario who seems to have bedded any number of women in and around Deacon without regard to age or race. Soon after, his bedmates start falling victim to the killer and Crash is forced to match wits with this skilled and intelligent murderer, who kills without remorse, leaving virtually no evidence behind but the slugs in the bodies and expended shell casings as the murders escalate, threatening any number of women and the barely-begun career of Crash Braddock.