A Case Against the Clock is a suspense novel featuring retired criminal profiler, Reg Battie, who has been retained by the police to help find the person responsible for three vicious murders. But Reg has a challenge - he's battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a fatal and progressive neuromuscular disease. Readers follow the police investigation as the bodies pile up and are offered glimpses inside the killer's mind to understand the strange motivations behind the killings. As the story unfolds, it's a race against time for Battie, who is challenged with the task of creating an accurate profile of the killer before ALS takes his life.