A captivating new thriller in the Wakeland detective series that explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld.

In one moment of public violence, everything changes for Dave Wakeland. When masked men and women storm an office building in Chinatown, leaving a trail of carnage, the Vancouver PI and his partner, Jeff Chen, find themselves caught up in a mystery that won't let them go.

The police have a vested interest in finding the shooters, and so does the leader of the Exiles motorcycle gang. Both want Wakeland’s help. The deeper he investigates, the more connections he uncovers: a reclusive millionaire with ties to organized crime, an international security company with a sinister reputation, and a high-ranking police officer who seems to have a personal connection to the case. When the shooters themselves start turning up dead, Wakeland realizes the only way to guarantee his own safety, and that of the people he loves, is by finding out who hired the shooters and why.

What Wakeland uncovers are secrets no one wants known—a botched undercover operation, an ambitious gangster and a double-crossing killer who used the shooting to cover up another crime. With a setup like this, anything can go wrong, and does. Skill and luck are needed for Wakeland and Chen to emerge with the killers, the money and their own lives.

Sam Wiebe is the award-winning author of the Vancouver crime novels Cut You Down, Invisible Dead and Last of the Independents. His short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Spinetingler and subTerrain. He is a former Vancouver Public Library Writer in Residence and the winner of the 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Sam lives in Vancouver.

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• Runner-up, Canada-West Best Regional Fiction in the IPPY Awards

"Sam Wiebe writes larger than life, and in Hell and Gone he takes his Pl Dave Wakeland into hell and back. A tense, taut page turner full of surprises in the dark, dangerous corners of Vancouver."

Ian Hamilton, author of the internationally bestselling <i> Ava Lee</i> series

"Wiebe is not only the crime writer whose work best captures Vancouver right now, but I'm gonna go right out and say the author of fiction whose work best captures the city at the moment, and the flux that Vancouver is in. The Wakeland novels are an incredible combination of social commentary and just the best of the crime genre."

Charles Demers, author of <i>Primary Obsessions</i>

"The best crime writer in Canada."

Nathan Ripley, author of <i>Your Life is Mine</i>