Madame Guillotine
Tyrus Rechs: Contracts & Terminations • Book 3
Why You'll Love This
Tyrus Rechs doesn't negotiate with demagogues — he hunts them through a city that's already on fire.
- Great if you want: a gritty bounty hunter story with real military stakes
- The experience: relentless and kinetic — almost no room to breathe
- The writing: Anspach and Cole write action with tactical precision and zero fat
- Skip if: you need political nuance — the villains here are unambiguous
About This Book
In a city tearing itself apart, two captured legionnaires are running out of time. When a protest on Detron erupts into coordinated violence and soldiers end up in enemy hands, the official response falls dangerously short. What fills that gap is Tyrus Rechs — bounty hunter, one-man army, and the closest thing this galaxy has to a conscience. The trail leads to a shadowy demagogue pulling strings from the chaos, and Rechs will burn through every layer of that city to reach her. This is a story about loyalty under impossible pressure, the cost of leaving people behind, and what it means when one stubborn man refuses to accept either outcome.
Anspach and Cole write action with surgical precision — never gratuitous, always purposeful, each confrontation revealing character as much as it advances plot. The pacing here is relentless without feeling rushed, and the city of Detron functions almost as a character itself: claustrophobic, volatile, morally compromised. What makes reading this particular entry rewarding is how it deepens Rechs without softening him. The prose is lean and confident, the stakes feel genuinely personal, and the book earns every tense moment it builds toward.
