Disturbing the Peace

From the award-winning author of Mill Town comes a masterful novel with characters that captivate and a plot that grips the reader from the opening pages.

Fictional Dodge County sits far from Florida s towering condos and gated communities. This is the old Florida of flat scrub land and slow-moving waters. Those who live here struggle mightily to pay their modest rents and to keep their disagreeable jobs. These are the people Sheriff Lawrence Garrison has sworn to protect and to serve.

On the other side of the world lays oil-rich Chechnya, where restless patriots seek to share in the petro riches of its Russian motherland. Accepting one final contract before retirement, Emilio Fortino, professional operative and assassin, develops a kidnap scheme to pressure Russian leadership into granting valuable concessions to the Chechens.

When Fortino snatches the jet-setting son of the Russian president during the Super Bowl in Tampa, his path crosses that of Sheriff Garrison.

With only a fragile theory and the slimmest evidence, Garrison relies on wisdom and persistence to dog his target. Garrison and Fortino, hunter and prey, learn that they are unlikely foes who share a moral code and sense of honor. Their decisive confrontation leads readers to a dramatic and unexpected conclusion.

The characters in Disturbing the Peace are memorable personalities with genuine imperfections, emotional weakness and physical frailty. The story is absorbing, and the tempo builds from a measured pace to an amplified and intense conclusion. Disturbing the Peace will have readers saying Wow when they finish the last page.

P.D. LaFleur is a native of New England who currently lives on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Disturbing the Peace is his fourth novel and has been awarded a gold medal by the Next Generation Indie Awards and three medals from the Florida Publishers Association, including the 2010 Gold Medal President's Choice Award. It was also a finalist in the 2010 International Book Awards.

LaFleur's third novel, Mill Town, was awarded a Gold Medal at the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and won a second Gold Medal winner from the Florida Publishers Association.