Jonah Geller is a man with many troubles. His wife has just kicked him out of their home and he has screwed up a major smuggling case in his role as security officer for a Toronto company.
So after recuperating from a gunshot wound, Geller finds himself doing minor jobs for the security firm. And he’s shocked when a notorious mob killer called Dante Ryan breaks into his apartment.
Ryan wants Geller’s help in tracking down the person who ordered a mob hit on a druggist, his wife and five-year-old son. Seems an illegal pill route into Buffalo for Canadian drugs is causing trouble in the world of organized crime.

What follows is ferocious action as Ryan and Geller attempt to hunt down the perpetrators, or “perps” as the police call them.

This first book by Shrier is top-notch, a page-turner to rate with the best of them and with some memorable characters. It also contains just the right dose of cynicism and dark humour, both of which mark the best of the private-eye novels. — Guelph Mercury