Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker return in another case involving a consignment of heroin which has been accidentally dumped into Vancouver Bay. A businessman near bankruptcy stumbles across the drugs and tries to sell them himself, with fatal results. Laurence Gough is also the author of "Death on a No. 8 Hook" and "The Golden Bowl", which won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
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This is Gough's third novel featuring the tough duo of police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, who work out of Vancouver, Canada. The interaction, cooperation and unspoken understanding essential to a successful police partnership is one of the most fascinating aspects of Gough's writing as he sends his sleuths into an investigation of a brutal drug-related murder. In tight, hard-hitting prose, Gough delineates a plot in which a monstrously cruel drug king, Gary Silk, orders his underlings to kill one another off after a multimillion-dollar drug deal has gone awry. Meanwhile, a comparatively ordinary citizen crosses Silk's path when he discovers the missing shipment washed up on a beach and decides that it may save him from financial ruin if he can discover how to market it. This is a hard-boiled story loaded with graphic violence, but the suspense will have even the queasy reader turning the pages. A slam-bang ending tidies up the plot with plenty of gunfire and a murder avenged.
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