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Sean
Slater is a Vancouver cop working in Canada’s poorest slum, the Downtown
East Side. Throughout his career, he has worked in uniform, plainclothes,
and surveillance operations. He has investigated everything from Extortions
to Homicides. His earlier novel, Optical, was a finalist for the Rupert
Hughes Prose Award, and his latest writings have won the Sunday Serial Thriller
Contest in The Vancouver Province newspaper. Sean has been married for ten
years to his wife Lani, and he is the proud father of two children.
INTRODUCING THE INCREDIBLE DETECTIVE JACOB STRIKER
'Dying is easy, living is the hard part.'
In his first hour back from a six-month stress leave, Vancouver Detective
Jacob Striker is called to St. Patrick’s High School. His daughter
is truant again and Principle Myers has had enough.
As Striker meets Myers in the school office, bangs are heard from down the
corridor. Halloween is three days away and she is convinced the students
are celebrating early with firecrackers. But Striker knows the sound too
well. It is something heavy and automatic.
Gunfire.
Striker and his partner, Felicia Santos, are thrown into a terrifying battle
as three masked gunmen attack the school. Students are being murdered and
only Striker can save them. Refusing to back down, Striker kills two of
the gunmen and faces the last shooter – a figure wearing a red hockey
mask.
And then the unexpected happens.
The surviving gunman racks his shotgun, unloads five rounds in to the dead
body of his fallen comrade, and flees the scene.
Against the clock, Striker needs to stop Red Mask before he kills again.
With no motive and an unknown suspect, Striker faces the toughest case of
his ten-year career. Nothing at St Patrick’s High is as it appears
and the closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous his world becomes.
Until Striker becomes the next target.
And the violence follows him home.
This is a fast paced, thrilling read from a captivating début
author.
"A satisfyingly auhentic début from a man who really knows about the bleak side of the human psyche... written with an unexpected gentle irony, and featuring a lead character that the author clearly likes, it's a neat, stylish thriller from a writer to watch." - DAILY MAIL
"The USP of this energetic début thriller is that it's written about a Vancouver cop by a Vancouver cop. In fact Sean Slater writes the sort of pacy superior pulp you'd expect from an author who'd never eaten a doughnut on a dull stakeout." - DAILY TELEGRAPH
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Camilla Wray) |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| Bulgaria | Obsidian Publishing House |
| Germany | Blanvalet |
| Poland | Proszynski Media |