The Exiled
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Can we ever truly run from our past?
Fifteen years ago, Detective Wes Raney was a New York City Narcotics Detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career, but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled New York - but his past is finally catching up with him.
For more than a decade, Raney has been living in exile, the sole murder detective covering a two-hundred mile stretch of desert in New Mexico. His solitude is his salvation - but it ends when a brutal drug deal gone wrong results in a triple murder. Staged in a locked underground bunker, the crime reawakens Raney's haunted and violent past.
THE EXILED follows Raney in a brilliant dual narrative that takes the reader from the crime-ridden streets of New York City in the 1980s, when crack was king, to the vast, open spaces of the American west. In both places, the only sure thing is that the choices you make will haunt you somewhere down the line...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charles, the pseudonym of Christopher Narozny (Jonah Man), chronicles the fraught career of Wes Raney, a former New York City narcotics detective, in this dark gem of a novel. In Brooklyn in 1984, Wes, a drug-addicted undercover cop, attempted to bust a sadistic crime boss with results that led to his disgrace and his exile to rural New Mexico, where he became a homicide detective. In 2002, he investigates multiple murders in what appears to be a drug deal gone bad. The case reawakens something long dormant in Raney, and as he reevaluates the wreckage of his past, he's forced to confront old demons once again. Powered by relentless pacing and fully realized characters, this brutal narrative illuminates the harrowing realms of drug addiction and organized crime. Readers won't soon forget Raney's blood-soaked and coke-fueled journey through self-loathing to some semblance of salvation.
