HELL AND GONE

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

Caught between the grimy and glittering sides of Vancouver's streets, private investigator Dave Wakeland tries to keep his head down at the elite security firm he owns with partner Jeff Chen. But when masked men and women storm an ordinary looking office building in Chinatown, leaving a trail of carnage, Wakeland finds himself caught up in a mystery that won't let him go, as hard as he tries to elude it.

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 uncover s: 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 Last of the Independents (Dundurn, 2014), Invisible Dead and Cut You Down (Random House Canada, 2016 and 2018), Never Going Back (Rapid Reads, 2020), and the editor of the anthology Vancouver Noir (Akashik Books, 2018). Wiebe's work has won an Arthur Ellis award and the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver Book awards. He lives in British Columbia.