Black Water Transit: A Novel - Hardcover

Stroud, Carsten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385335784 ISBN 13: 9780385335782

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 2001

Synopsis

To get his criminal son out of trouble with the authorities, businessman Jack Vermillion makes a deal with the ATF to turn informant on an illegal gun dealer in exchange for his son's freedom, but when the raid goes wrong, leaving several people dead, Jack is forced to flee to save his life. By the author of Close Pursuit. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Carsten Stroud is the author of the New York Times bestseller Close Pursuit, and the award-winning Sniper’s Moon, both set in the New York City Police Department. He lives and writes in Thunder Beach.

From the Inside Flap:

rk Times bestselling author Carsten Stroud writes with a brutal intensity that mesmerizes readers as it brings them onto the front lines of high-stakes police work. Now Stroud has written his most gripping novel to date, a high-voltage tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption — deeply rooted in the violent underworld of East Coast crime.

Jack Vermillion is an ex-Marine who came back from Vietnam and turned a two-truck shipping outfit into a multimillion-dollar empire. His work is his life. His only grief, a son, Danny, who ran off the rails years back and is now serving a ten-year sentence for armed robbery. A little downtime in Lompoc cooling his heels might do him some good.

But a desperate late-night phone call from Danny, in the prison clinic after a suicide attempt, forces Jack to go looking for a federal deal to save him. So when Jack is approached by a retired U.S. Army colonel named Earl V. Pike to ship his private gun collection — very simple, ver

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385335784
• ISBN 13: 9780385335782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354