Two minute rule. Robert Crais. 2006.

Two minutes can be a lifetime.

Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they’ll tell you that’s as long as you can hope formatma robbery before the cops show up and spoil the party. Break the two minute rule and it’s a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules……..

When Max Holman finally gets out of jail after ten years, three months and four days of thinking about his own botched bank raid, freedom quickly doesn’t taste too sweet. At the moment of his release, the son that he had barely met is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. It seems like a random crime, but when the victim is a cop - especially a cop with a con for a father - the motives are never simple.

For the hit is quickly exposed as a revenge killing, and the victim accused of being a ‘bad cop’. Now Max decides that in recompense for all those wasted years, he must clear his son’s name and find the brutal killers - whatever the risks to his freedom and to his life……..