Nobody from Somewhere
A Crime Novel
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this action-packed caper novel, a long-retired cop gets wrapped up with a girl on the run
Long-retired cop Fitch Henry Haut is terminally ill and living out his final years alone. As he sits in his favorite diner enjoying the meatloaf special, he watches as a young girl steps in and spots two rough-looking men at the counter. When they see her, she runs off and they give chase.
His cop instincts kick in and Fitch follows, catching up with them in the parking lot. As the two men try to force her into their vehicle, Fitch manages to get the upper hand, and he and the girl take off in his broken-down Winnebago.
The girl is Wren Jones, a runaway from an abusive foster home. Earlier that day she overheard the two men going on about a casino robbery they just committed, and this was the second time she got away from them that day. Fitch realizes the men will come hunting for them again, and that the ailing rig he’s driving won’t be hard to spot. A bond forms as Fitch and Wren struggle to escape out of town, both aware that time is not on their side.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Valor, betrayal, and bad alliances collide in this exciting crime novel set on Canada's West Coast, from Kalteis (Under an Outlaw Moon). When scheming hustler Nikki Miller (aka Valentina) comes up with a ploy to rip off high rollers at the local casino, she sets in motion a chain of events affecting the fortunes of six disparate characters. Angel James Silva and Cooder Baio, seasoned car thief partners looking for a more lucrative con, go along with her plan and attack Park Won-Soon, a businessman Valentina has seduced, stealing his casino winnings and leaving him badly beaten. The theft backfires when the victim, backed by Chinese triad money, employs gangland enforcer Zhang Yee to recover the stolen money. Kalteis skillfully weaves in a side plot involving a 15-year-old runaway, Wren McKenna, who escapes her abusive foster home only to get caught in a more dangerous situation, and a terminally ill retired cop, Fitch Henry Haut, whose serve and protect instincts draw him into the cross fire. A brisk pace and sharp attention to character help propel this lean story of chance encounters amid a battle for survival. Fans of gritty crime fiction will be gratified.
