Drawing on court transcripts, depositions, CPS records, and federal conviction records spanning thirty years of family law practice in the Permian Basin, Clack documents what she came to call "The Club" — a network of predators, enablers, and institutional failures operating in the shadow of Texas's wealthiest county. The cases she describes are not speculation. They are documented. Many are still open.
The book is structured like a jigsaw puzzle, the same way the truth revealed itself to her: one piece at a time, one case at a time, until a pattern too consistent to ignore came into focus. A sitting police chief who went to federal prison for child pornography. An assistant district attorney secretly on the judges' payroll for twenty years. Children who described unspeakable things — accurately, consistently, and with the kind of detail that cannot be coached.
This is not a book about monsters in the dark. It is a book about institutions that looked the other way, and about the children who paid the price.
Discovering the Club is a call for justice — and a call to listen.
Published by River Grove Books | Available in trade paperback and eBook
This is not a book about monsters in the dark. It is a book about institutions that looked the other way, and about the children who paid the price.
