Mike Knowles, Author . ECW $24.95 (171p) ISBN 978-1-55022-895-3
Razor-edged prose and a sympathetic antihero lift Knowles's no-holds-barred crime thriller, the sequel to Darwin's Nightmare
(2008), which introduced the mob enforcer known only as Wilson. Wilson has left behind the person he was in...
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Mike Knowles, ECW (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (188p) ISBN 978-1-55022-948-6
Canadian author Knowles's unsparing, blood-soaked third crime thriller to feature mob-enforcer Wilson picks up where the previous entry, Grinder, left off. Wilson wakes up handcuffed to a Hamilton, Ont., hospital bed, where the cops want to know who
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Mike Knowles. ECW (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-77041-097-8
A daring robbery leads to plenty of bloodshed in Knowles’s hard-hitting fourth caper featuring the Hamilton, Ont., professional thief and former mob enforcer known only as Wilson (after 2010’s In Plain Sight). When confidence woman Ruby Chu tries to
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Mike Knowles. ECW Press (Legato Publishers Group, U.S. dist.; Jaguar Book Group, Canadian dist.), $12.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-77041-171-5
Mob-enforcer turned freelance fixer Wilson returns for his fifth brutal adventure. Bored as a mere planner, Wilson agrees to steal a painting from the Art Gallery of Ontario. Success is its own punishment; Wilson's ability to plan and carry out the...
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Mike Knowles. ECW (Legato, U.S. dist.; Jaguar, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-77041-101-2
Wilson, the antihero of this fantastic hardboiled criminal noir from Knowles (The Buffalo Job), is a straight shooter; that is, as a cohort tells him, “People seem to have a habit of getting shot around you, and you are usually the one holding the...
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Mike Knowles. ECW (Legato, U.S. dist.; Jaguar, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-77041-422-8
Knowles (Rocks Beat Paper) takes a break from Wilson, the hard-edged antihero of his past six novels, and proves he can write police just as well as he can criminals. After Hamilton, Ont. Det. Julie Owen is gruesomely killed and her unborn child...
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Mike Knowles. ECW, $15.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-77041-519-5
As PI Sam Jones, the hero of this brilliantly woven crime novel from Canadian author Knowles (Tin Men), is paying the cashier in a Toronto coffee house, he notices blood on his cuff and goes to the bathroom to try and remove the stain. On the back...
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