Pot Shot
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Potshot, the fourth McMorrow mystery, delves deep into backwoods pot-growing and drug-dealing and the damage that comes when big, urban traffickers enter the picture. Jack alternates between the back-to-landers living communally on the outskirts of Florence, Maine, and confrontations with urban gangsters moving in on the product—and the people who Jack comes to know. Cronies at a county fair, an assassination attempt, and hostages are only a few of the challenges McMorrow has to face in this fast-paced addition to the McMorrow legacy. Library Journal says, "Along with snappy dialog that propels the story, Boyle presents an ensemble of likable characters. A sure thing for anyone who has enjoyed Robert Parker's Spenser."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reporter Jack McMorrow, who left New York's rat race for calmer rural Maine, tangles with plotting rural hippies and vicious urban drug dealers in this timely, colorful adventure (his fourth, after Lifeline). At a country-life fair, Jack meets Bobby Mullaney, a vocal advocate of marijuana legalization. Sensing a good freelance story, McMorrow visits the isolated forest home that Bobby shares with his wife, Melanie, her brooding teenage son, Stephen, and an enigmatic, scary friend known as Coyote. Before Jack can write his story, Bobby and Coyote disappear on a trip to meet drug contacts in Massachusetts. Melanie, nervous about cops, calls Jack for help. When he and his resourceful ex-marine buddy, Clair, ask questions, the dealers answer with an assassination attempt. Although local police believe that Bobby has been murdered, Jack rejects their theory. Meanwhile, his lover, social worker Roxanne Masterson, is viciously beaten by child-abusing parents. Jack's romantic dialogue with Roxanne leans too much toward cute repartee, but their relationship strengthens the hero's character. Boyle provides a big cast of quirky down-easters as he authoritatively guides us through the Maine woods. The climactic chase is a stunner.
