High Crimes |
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| Author:
| Deverell, William |
| ISBN: | 978-1-77090-545-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2006 |
| Publisher: | ECW Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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"A fast-moving swinging story of intrigue, suspense, action, and mayhem . . . [the] characters are all colorful rogues" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries. But the greatest of them all, a man named Peter Kerrivan, is now in the sights of the authorities, from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the American DEA.
More Description "A fast-moving swinging story of intrigue, suspense, action, and mayhem . . . [the] characters are all colorful rogues" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries. But the greatest of them all, a man named Peter Kerrivan, is now in the sights of the authorities, from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to the American DEA.
Centered around a multimillion-dollar cargo of pot on a creaky freighter and offering a high-seas romp spanning from Colombia to Miami to the North Atlantic, High Crimes is "a gripping novel . . . with a thrilling triple-twist conclusion" from an author who has won both the Arthur Ellis Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize (Mystery News).