A Delicate Matter
A Jack Taggart Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2016
- Category
- Police Procedural, Hard-Boiled, Private Investigators
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459734296
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $6.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459734272
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
In the tenth Jack Taggart Mystery, Taggart goes head to head with a longtime enemy who’s been eluding him for years …
Jack Taggart is once again going head to head with his nemesis, Damien Zabat, national president of the Satans Wrath Motorcycle Gang. Taggart and Zabat’s lives have long been intertwined by a violent history of retribution and murder, dependent on unwritten rules of conduct — rules far outside the parameters of the law, but that each man feels are just. To Taggart, Zabat represents an unspeakable evil. He has eluded justice and left behind a trail of death.
As Zabat approaches retirement, his son, Buck, joins the gang. When Taggart obtains evidence to send Buck to jail, he gives Zabat two days to disclose the details of a new European cocaine connection in exchange for his son’s freedom. Zabat’s refusal leads Taggart to gamble with his own life in a desperate attempt to destroy the man he has long been after. It is a gamble he wishes he had never taken.
About the author
Don Easton spent his career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as an undercover operative who worked in foreign countries. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Don Easton's premise for writing this novel came from personal experience. He was a former RCMP undercover operative who had been sent to El Paso where his investigation then took him into Juarez. Some of the events in this novel are shocking, made even more so when told by someone who has been there. Birds of a Feather is Easton's sixth Jack Taggart Mystery, following Loose Ends, Above Ground, Angel in the Full Moon, Samurai Code, and Dead Ends.
Editorial Reviews
Another fine entry in a series that’s been running since 2005 and shows no signs of tiring.
Booklist
This 10th Taggart is a terrific action book as our hero goes up against his old nemesis, Damien Zabat.
The Globe and Mail