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Title: Triggerfish
Subtitle: A Crime Novel
Author: Dietrich Kalteis
Narrator: Graham Winton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-16
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir
Publisher's Summary:
You know you're in deep water when you can't tell cop from criminal.
Rene Beckman is a dishonored ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish; and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel's drug submarine, the date ends with a bang. With the cartel's coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he's forced to go on the run with half the underworld chasing him through the streets of Vancouver and the waters surrounding it.
While he tries to stay alive, a woman from Beckman's past - currently on the run from CSIS and the antiterror squad - comes back to settle an old score. When the gangs start to go after his friends, the ex-cop stops running and turns the tables. With a ragtag crew of his own, Beckman faces the cartel and bikers head-on.
Fast, vicious, and thrilling, Triggerfish delivers a story where all the criminals are in conflict and no one is certain who will come out on top.
Members Reviews:
Top class Canadian crime!
Another slice of top class Canadian crime fiction from Dietrich Kalteis with Triggerfish. Triggerfish is the third novel from Kalteis after Ride the Lightning and The Deadbeat Club.
My kind of bookââ.. a cop becomes an ex-cop and a boatman, a drug-smuggling submarine owned by a Mexican cartel, a biker gang trading guns for cocaine, a raspberry thong-ed environmentalist, a sexual encounter interrupting the drugs transfer, and the aftermath. The cartel coming after our main man Beckman and his date in an effort to eliminate the witnesses.
Action, violence, sex, vegan food, environmentalists, the sea, a hapless assistant, a concerned friend, a love rival, drug-runners, bikers, a stabbing, a terrorist on the most wanted list, a low-level criminal duo of uncle and nephew in over their heads, cocaine and guns, opportunity, theft, torture, arson, death, fisticuffs and more.
Fast-paced, entertaining, engaging, funny in all the right places, educational (whoever knew the cartels smuggled drugs in purpose built-submarines? not me), satisfying.
Ticks in every box.
4.5 from 5
Ride the Lightning was enjoyed, previously as was The Deadbeat Club.
House of Blazes - a historical novel set around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the forthcoming Zero Avenue await.
Read in August, 2017
Published â 2016
Page count â 266
Source â review copy from publisher ECW Press
Format - paperback
Top-Notch Canadian Crime Fiction
If there was any doubt whether the Canadians could write hard nasty crime fiction, Kalteis has put those doubts to rest. Ex-cops running charter boats out of Vancouver, women who step out for an evening boat ride in heels and shorty shorts, Mexican cartels running dope in mini-subs, biker clubs trading Chinese guns for Mexican dope, environmentalists out to save the whales, and one mean terrorist lady who keeps dropping in. It's a non-stop action-packed attitude-filled festival of crime fiction. Kalteis delivers a fine piece of work, well-balanced, well-plotted, well-played, although at times you do need a scorecard to keep the players straight.
Sailing detective story
Triggerfish is a boat owned by an ex cop Rene Beckman, renting it out for fishing days is how he is spending his retirement, however on one trip with a girlfriend he stumbles upon a drug gang smuggling high value narcotics.