John McFetridge is the author of the novels LET IT RIDE (St. Martins Press), EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE and DIRTY SWEET (Houghton Miflin Harcourt).
Bestselling novelist Ken Bruen said, “McFetridge channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.”
Stand-off in a suburban grow op.
Freddie is robbing the place, Victor has come to kill him, Steve is caught in the middle and Holly is looking for a quiet evening at home.
Any house in any neighbourhood could be a grow house...
A novella from the author of the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Let It Ride and the novellas East Coast and Barbotte.
Montreal 1946. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Royals, the jazz clubs are hopping and the backrooms are full of people losing money at the barbotte tables.
Nat Lawson is home from the war working for the phone company and moonlighting running 'silent' lines for bookies when Leah Aidelbaum asks him to play private eye.
EAST COAST is THE WIRE in a rural setting as RCMP Sgt. Jerry Northup works to keep his narcotics squad motivated in the seemingly unwinnable war on drugs while raising three kids with his wife, Isobel.