Go-Between
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
An all-too-realistic thriller about for-profit prisons, big-money politics, shady non-profits, the war on drugs—and the people who would kill to keep the system intact
Emily runs a successful bistro in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her boyfriend, Jeff, a volunteer firefighter. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business, but so what? It’s true, firefighting isn’t really Jeff’s main job—that would be flying Humboldt’s finest weed to out-of-state customers. And sure, he isn’t really Emily’s boyfriend, more like the guy she’s stuck with by circumstance. Actually, his name is Danny, not Jeff, and Emily’s real name is Michelle Mason, although no one can ever know that. She’s on the run from her past—which has just caught up with her. Gary, an ex-CIA agent who got her and Danny into this whole mess, has just shown up in Humboldt County. Michelle should have killed him when she had the chance, but now she’s stuck playing Gary’s game—and if she loses, she or someone close to her will pay the ultimate price.
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Michelle Mason, the heroine of Brackmann's brisk sequel to 2012's Getaway, has rebuilt her life under an assumed name after a vacation in Mexico went bad. She owns a popular bistro in Arcata, a town in marijuana-rich Humboldt County, Calif., and lives with Jeff, her volunteer firefighter boyfriend, whose real name is Danny and who played a significant role in Getaway. Jeff moonlights by flying the finest cannabis to out-of-state customers until he's arrested in Texas on federal drug trafficking charges. To get Jeff's charges dropped, Michelle must work with their old nemesis, shady CIA agent Gary, who wants her to "babysit" Kaitlin O'Connor, a wealthy socialite. Kaitlin heads Safer America, a social welfare organization lobbying for "tough on crime" measures. Gary and his backers want Kaitlin, who drinks too much, to sober up and help defeat a Texas bill that would legalize marijuana for recreational use and possibly open the door for similar legislation across the country. The edgy plot never lets up, touching on the war on drugs, for-profit prisons, and nefarious nonprofits.
