Synopses & Reviews
Nothing is what it seems and everyone knows more than they let on in this fast-paced crime story. On a busy street on a Monday morning, a man behind the wheel of an SUV is shot in the head, and his killer drives off before the light changes. But what appears to be road rage or a random act of violence is actually an opportunity for everyone--everyone, that is, but the victim. The getaway driver is a Russian mobster who needs to rent a space for his new strip club, which funds his other, even less savory enterprises. The eyewitness is a real estate agent with some new leverage, legal and otherwise, on that strip club lease. Her other tenant, a petty pornographer, sees a chance to expand his business--if the realtor plays along--and the homicide squad sees its own opportunities in the brazen murder. Events unfold with speed and surprise as the players eye the prize and race to the finish.
Review
PRAISE FOR DIRTY SWEET "Dirty Sweet is supremely fast-moving, kinky and violent."Duane Swierczynski, author of The Blonde "McFetridge has studied at the knee of Elmore Leonard . . . If more people wrote the kind of clean-as-a-whistle, no-fat prose McFetridge does, this reviewer would finish a lot more of their books."David Gilmour, National Post (Canada)
Synopsis
Take a chance. Thats what Roxanne Keyes thinks when she recognizes the guy calmly driving away from the murder his passenger has just committed at an intersection in broad daylight. Roxanne can use this to her advantage. It will get her out of the huge mess shes made of her lifeif shes willing to lie to the cops, partner with a pornWeb site developer with a mysterious past, and blackmail a Russian mobster. Cant be much more dangerous than her day job, selling real estate in Toronto.
Except that the copsnew guy Loewen and the maybe-too-cool-for-his-own-good Priceknow right away that this isnt a random act of violence. Theres something bigger going onand theyre going to get to the bottom of it. Even if it means going after mobsters, biker gangs, crooked cops, and Roxanne Keyes.
Synopsis
"Toronto has never looked seedier."Globe and Mail (Canada)
Synopsis
"Toronto has never looked seedier."—Globe and Mail (Canada)
About the Author
Dirty Sweet is JOHN McFETRIDGE's first novel. He lives in Toronto.