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Fiction Police Procedural

A Delicate Matter

A Jack Taggart Mystery

by (author) Don Easton

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2016
Category
Police Procedural, Hard-Boiled, Private Investigators
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459734296
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $6.99
  • 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.

Don Easton's profile page

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