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Fiction, Crime & mystery
Virgil Cain gets tangled up in an old crime surfacing from the waters of the Hudson River, in this second novel from Brad Smith's brilliantly sharp crime series
For roguish cynic Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields much more than he bargained for. Pulling up anchor, he drags in a mysterious steel cylinder - news which soon spreads around the local marina. When a crooked city cop then seizes both the cylinder and the boat, Virgil is left in a quandary.
Deciding to pursue his boat, Virgil becomes embroiled with captivating single mother, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cocaine hidden inside the cylinder, and an old drug deal gone sour. Faced with a dealer who desperately needs his cylinder back, a murderous sidekick, and a wild card crazy Russian cowboy, Virgil and Dusty find themselves trapped in the middle and desperate for a way out.
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Praise for Crow's Landing
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It's been a very long time since I discovered a crime novelist as fine as Brad Smith. He is a master storyteller, witty, chilling, and witheringly good. I absolutely love his books. Virgil Cain is a character for the ages - Douglas Preston, NYT bestselling author
Brad Smith
Brad Smith was born and raised in the hamlet of Canfield, southern Ontario. As a child, he had a Huck Finn existence, before working for the Canadian National Railway, where he got the chance to work in South Africa. Upon returning, Smith worked all over the place - Alberta, British Columbia, Texas - at a variety of jobs: farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher. He eventually settled on carpenter, and still works as one when not writing. He now lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. As well as the Virgil Cain trilogy, Smith has written five other novels.
www.bradsmithbooks.com
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