Grinder
A Mystery
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A mob enforcer is pulled back into his old life in this "terrific read" (Ken Bruen, Shamus Award–winning author of The Dramatist).
Two years ago, Wilson made a deal: he let his old boss live in exchange for a clean slate. He's kept up his end of the bargain since then, and stayed off the grid—working on a fishing boat off of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Now, many miles from the city he once escaped, a man comes calling on Wilson with a gun in his hand and a woman in his trunk. And Wilson is pulled back into his old life as a "grinder"—working under the radar to quietly find out who is responsible for a dangerous mobster's missing nephews . . .
"Razor-edged prose and a sympathetic antihero lift Knowles's no-holds-barred crime thriller . . . Readers who like their mean streets really mean will be thoroughly satisfied." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Razor-edged prose and a sympathetic antihero lift Knowles's no-holds-barred crime thriller, the sequel to Darwin's Nightmare (2008), which introduced the mob enforcer known only as Wilson. Wilson has left behind the person he was in Hamilton, Ont., where he worked for mob boss Paolo Donati. He's found a new life on Prince Edward Island as a hired hand on a fishing boat. Unfortunately, after Wilson's attempt to aid a dying politician results in his photo being splashed across Canadian front pages, Donati sends a thug to find him. Though Wilson is easily able to dispatch his tracker, he realizes he can't further endanger the people he has come to care for in his new community. He returns to Hamilton to locate those responsible for the disappearance of Donati's nephews. While not for those uncomfortable with gore, readers who like their mean streets really mean will be thoroughly satisfied.
