From Publishers Weekly
The chill of Michigan's Upper Peninsula doesn't cool the action in Edgar-winner Hamilton's expertly paced seventh Alex McKnight novel (after 2005's
Ice Run). On an unusually frigid Fourth of July night, the retired Detroit cop and his sometime partner, Leon Prudell, save three men from a boating accident in Lake Superior's Waishkey Bay. But the men return to accuse their rescuers of stealing a locked box off the boat, and Alex discovers that they're squeezing members of the Bay Mills Indian reservation for government-financed prescription painkillers. As Alex closes in on the dealers, he narrowly avoids death. Meanwhile, his long-distance girlfriend, Ontario police officer Natalie Reynaud, goes undercover in Toronto to ferret out an illegal arms dealer. When she pays Alex a surprise visit at his Paradise, Mich., cabin, their operations intersect with tragic results. Plot turnarounds and double-crosses ensure a startling conclusion.
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From AudioFile
If only ex-Detroit-cop Alex McKnight had stayed in by the fire instead of going out with friends on a foggy night in July to rescue three stranded boaters. But Alex goes, and the string of events that follows almost undoes him. From Paradise, Michigan, where Alex is investigating a prescription drug scheme, to Toronto, where his ladylove is on an undercover sting operation, the action is nonstop. Jim Bond gives a multilayered performance of this seventh Alex McKnight novel. As characters wrestle with real problems in believable ways, Bond never strikes a false note. His Canadian and Upper Peninsula accents have just the right lilt, and his Ojibway accent is strong and convincing. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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