Triggerfish
A Crime Novel
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
You know you’re in deep water when you can’t tell cop from criminal
Rene Beckman is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel’s drug submarine, the date ends with a bang.
With the cartel’s coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he’s forced to go on the run with half the underworld chasing him through the streets of Vancouver and the waters surrounding it. While he tries to stay alive, a woman from Beckman’s past — currently on the run from CSIS and the anti-terror squad — comes back to settle an old score.
When the gangs start to go after his friends, the ex-cop stops running and turns the tables. With a ragtag crew of his own, Beckman faces the cartel and bikers head on. Fast, vicious, and thrilling, Triggerfish delivers a story where all the criminals are in conflict and no one is certain who will come out on top.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Kalteis's gritty third novel (following The Deadbeat Club), timing and coincidence are everything. Disgraced cop Rene "Beck" Beckman takes an adventurous woman named Vicki Moon on a date aboard his boat, the Triggerfish. They're interrupted when they witness a submarine filled with drugs being towed to shore. Since the criminals know what Beck and Vicki look like, they and everyone close to them become targets. Beck soon discovers that the event is connected to the mysterious woman who stabbed him and set the scene for the end of his police career some months before. As the drug runners lay low to wait for a shipment of weapons, all the grisly but authentic details of cheap life and easy death in that underworld make parts of the story hard to take. Lighter moments such as a near-naked animal rights protest provide some comic relief. As the gang seeks revenge against Beck, the sameness of several gang members makes the plot hard to follow at times, but much of the action will keep readers on the edges of their seats and fearing for potential victims whose only fault is their proximity to Beck. The complicated but fast-moving conclusion is a total page-turner. Unsettling and sometimes horrifying, this high-octane tale will suit hardcore crime fans.
