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Fiction, Crime & mystery
The first book in this blisteringly sharp noir series, featuring roguish loner Virgil Cain
Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York. The downside to this is that Mickey has a lot of enemies, one of whom drives a golf club through his heart.
The cops have one suspect: Virgil Cain, whose recent exclamation that 'somebody ought to blow Mickey's head off' - after Mickey freed the wealthy, gun-obsessed lunatic accused of murdering his wife - has left him in hot water.
Dim-witted detective Joe Brady throws Virgil in jail, no questions asked. So, realising that his unlucky streak is about to get a whole lot worse unless he finds who's really responsible, Virgil busts out of jail and begins his hunt, with only savvy detective Claire Marchand prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
As the evidence against him mounts, and he begins to upset some rather dubious people, Virgil is truly on the run in this witty, thrilling and blistering tale.
More books by Brad Smith
Praise for Red Means Run
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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.
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