Fall Guy

✍ Scribed by Mackay, Scott

• Book ID: 110435997
• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 342 KB
• Series: Barry Gilbert 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781626818125

✦ Synopsis

"[A] great story." --The Globe and Mail

"A clever procedural ... a skillful storyteller ... Mackay does atmosphere and setting well, and his characters are full-bodied and believable."--Booklist

Detective Barry Gilbert is called into Toronto's Chinatown to investigate the death of Edgar Lau, a man whose history and connections take the detective on a ride across continents and cultures, and deep into an immigrant family's struggle to survive against harrowing odds.

Gilbert must piece together Edgar's labyrinthine history--from his days as a Vietnamese refugee who made a deadly trek to China by boat, to his affair with a prominent member of Toronto's city government, to his dealings with a Chinese drug baron. Throughout the investigation, damaging and sensitive questions are raised--questions somebody in Toronto's police department doesn't want answered.

It soon becomes clear to Gilbert that in addition to hunting down Edgar's killer, he must fight...