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Evan Maitland, antiques salesman and part-time bounty hunter, figures it will be an easy job. Barry McDermott has skipped on bond, and Maitland's been hired to bring him back. McDermott is no hardened criminal - he's a frightened lawyer charged with statutory rape. What Maitland doesn't know is that McDermott financed his escape with money stolen from the Raetown Jamaican Posse . . . and they want him dead.
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*Starred Review* Evan Maitland is a former Chicago cop making his way as a specialty furniture dealer in the Windy City. Readers hoping for a kindred soul to Lovejoy, Jonathan Gash's charming antique-dealing, crime-solving British rogue, will find a very different but equally appealing sort of bloke in the pages of this knockout first novel. Maitland walked away from law enforcement but not adrenalin. He supplements his furniture income as a bounty hunter, tracking down bail skips. His latest runner is Barry McDermott, an attorney charged with statutory rape ("She looked 25!"). What Maitland doesn't know is that a Jamaican posse is also on McDermott's tail; he has nearly a million dollars of their drug money. Maitland and the Jamaicans find their prey at the same time; the ruckus leaves two dead and Maitland minus one lung. The surviving Jamaicans want Maitland dead. The remainder of the tale finds a diminished Maitland dodging Jamaican hit attempts and trying to convince a corrupt Chicago cop that he's not aligned with the Jamaican posse. This is an extraordinary debut that harkens back to Elmore Leonard's classic City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1999). Great modern noir; don't miss it, and clamor for more. Wes Lukowsky
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"This is an extraordinary debut . . . Great modern noir; don't miss it, and clamor for more."
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786276584
- ISBN 13 9780786276585
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages347
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