A blood-stained car is found, abandoned. Willows and Parker are called in to investigate a possible homicide: there is evidence of a gunfight, but no apparent victim.
Then a body is pulled out of the harbor … and a narcotics king, double-crossing henchmen, an amateur hustler and police are to converge in a shattering denouement.
Laurence Gough resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters.