"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewSergeantDetective mile CinqMars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal.Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted SergeantDetective mile CinqMars attends the scene of seventeen breakins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. CinqMars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment.When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, CinqMars is ordered to intervene with a prisoners release the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the breakins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: FH; Weight: 347 g; Dimensions: 201 x 132 x 13

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