“Fans of Richard Stark and Andrew Vacchs will immediately recognize his cold-blooded pragmatism and brass-knuckled approach to problem solving...The action is straight, hard and fast and the characters are as sharply etched as this stuff gets...as clean and tight a debut as I’ve seen recently. The sure hand and utterly convincing tone displayed by the first time author, a school teacher, bodes well for not just him and Canadian crime writing, but for fans of hard-boiled fiction everywhere.”