Trapped at Birth: With Only One Way Out

Max Bryce is a fake name, but no one in rural Twin Mills, Saskatchewan, knows that. Fyodor is his real name. He is the youngest son of a powerful Russian mob family. Max's veterinarian practice is a front for his family's illegal drug trade across the American border.
Max resents being part of his family. He tried to leave it once before but was severely punished. His punishment was to teach him that no family member gets out of his family alive. Yet, Max's desperation to escape runs deep and explodes. In a rash move, Max becomes a David fighting two Goliaths.
Max is on the run from his family and the bikers. His freedom becomes a supreme contest to stay alive. He must outwit and outlast those who want him dead.

Raymond Maher's fascination with family interactions inspires his third novel. He challenges the myth that families are ordinarily happy and safe environments. Maher zeros in on a toxic fictional family that successfully deceives their community that they are normal.Rural Saskatchewan is the setting for his novel, which is connected to his years spent there as a pastor and newspaper columnist.Maher's first two novels are stories of the 1858 Fraser Valley Gold Rush in British Columbia, where he now resides. www.raymondmaher.com