The pace that kills was out of place in Oklachoppee County, Florida, a brackish swampland where living was slow, loving was easy, and dying was something you did in bed.
Then at 7 o'clock on a hot July morning young Danny Rivers, a murder on his hands and a last mile in his future, broke loose from two guards in route to Raiford State Prison. In the next 14 hours, he cast the shadow of sudden death over all South Florida, and changed the lives of three men and two women who had never worried much about what they were made of... and suddenly had only seconds to find out. The Pace That Kills
