Cut You Down
A Wakeland Novel
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Cut You Down is prize-winning novelist Sam Wiebe's second riveting Wakeland mystery.
Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland returns, hot on the trail of a missing college student who may or may not have stolen half a million dollars. What starts as a straightforward runaway case soon gives way to a tangled mess of dirty money, betrayal, and murder, pitting the resourceful but over-his-head detective against suburban gangsters, a corrupt cop, and a contract killer with a fondness for blades--one of which seems destined for Wakeland's throat...
Sam Wiebe's morally challenged young detective takes up a cross-border chase that twists and surprises like only Vancouver's next master of crime could write. Never one to back down from the big issues plaguing his city of shining towers and forgotten corners, Wiebe returns with a vicious caper that threatens to leave no one--not his rogue detective, nor Wakeland's family and friends (or even a few of his enemies)--standing.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Dave Wakeland—ex-boxer, ex-cop, current gumshoe—has a white-knight streak a mile wide, especially for women in distress. Before the third chapter of Cut You Down ends, two will knock on his door: Dana Essex, who’s looking for a missing student mixed up in money laundering, and Sonia Drego, his former partner and paramour, who needs him to tail a crooked officer. Wakefield is a woke Philip Marlowe; he’s quick to throw punches and take beatings, but also eager to listen and apologize. He’s the appealing heart of this meticulously paced thriller, the second in a series from Vancouver writer Sam Wiebe.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Vancouver, B.C., PI Dave Wakeland takes on two difficult cases in Wiebe's superlative sequel to 2017's Invisible Dead. Surrey Polytech professor Dana Essex wants Wakeland to locate a former student, Tabitha Sorenson, who's possibly an embezzler and launderer of college funds. Wakeland's former lover, ex-policewoman Sonia Drego, asks him to track bent cop Chris Chambers. As Wakeland tramps Vancouver's meanest streets, filled with beggars, drug dealers, and gangsters, he lets his intuition and conscience guide him. The parallel investigations modulate into one cleverly tuned commentary on a society that forces its citizens to choose between doing the wrong thing for the right reason and doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Hard and violent with the bad guys, and gentle as he needs to be with women, especially Sonia, the noble Wakeland strives to do the right thing for the right reason (if the wrong way). Wiebe convincingly brings Raymond Chandler into the 21st century.
