Dead Ends
A Jack Taggart Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2011
- Category
- Police Procedural, Private Investigators, Hard-Boiled
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554888948
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $11.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459703384
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $6.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554888931
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
Undercover operative Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another.
Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies a shadowy gang member known only as “Cocktail” as being responsible. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia. Their mission is to identify Cocktail and gain evidence to convict him of murder. Taggart soon finds himself knee-deep in drive-by shootings, meth labs, retaliatory murders, and date rapes. An offer of a truce brings Taggart, along with gang bosses, to a remote location to discuss a peace agreement. But Cocktail has been a step ahead of them the whole time.
About the author
Don Easton spent his career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as an undercover operative who worked in foreign countries. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Don Easton's premise for writing this novel came from personal experience. He was a former RCMP undercover operative who had been sent to El Paso where his investigation then took him into Juarez. Some of the events in this novel are shocking, made even more so when told by someone who has been there. Birds of a Feather is Easton's sixth Jack Taggart Mystery, following Loose Ends, Above Ground, Angel in the Full Moon, Samurai Code, and Dead Ends.
Editorial Reviews
Brusque, no-nonsense dialogue bristles with close-to-the-line action that feels authentic and fuels the juices. …Bring on number six in what is one of the best hard-nosed series in Canada.
Hamilton Spectator
Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work. This new novel, which takes the RCMP's Taggart undercover to ferret out a murderous killer, is one of the best of this good series.
Globe and Mail
Easton's writing is rather addictive; there are moments where you can see the action as clear as if it were happening right in front of your eyes.
Bookgasm
Easton, himself a former RCMP undercover operative, makes very clear the danger and determination of such cops, and the power and ruthlessness of their opponents.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
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