Let It Ride

John McFetridge

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“McFetridge channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.”—Ken Bruen
 
The author of two critically acclaimed Canadian crime novels, with Let It Ride John McFetridge takes us deep inside the gray zone that exists between the Canadian/American border, delivering all the up to the minute twists and edgy action of an episode of The Wire.

Vernard ‘Get’ McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his buddy JT, a guy he met in Kandahar who also happens to be the leader of the Saints of Hell—a notorious Ontario biker gang currently in the process of taking over all North of the border drug traffic. Commuting weekly across the line into the center of JT’s high flying empire, Get hooks up with Sunitha, a decidedly independent woman who’s gone from working seedy massage parlors to robbing them at gunpoint—and has dreams of a much bigger score: taking the Saints for the millions they have stashed in gold bars. Meanwhile, the Toronto cops have the Saints under a microscope. Detectives Price and McKeon are getting nowhere with a double drive-by killing on the Gardiner Expressway—a husband and wife returning from a swingers party—and the investigation keeps leading back to the Saints…

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Adam  rated it  
Jan 27, 2011
John Mcfetridge has crafted three (to date) interwoven novels set in modern Toronto a city filled to the brim with numerous ethnic groups, corruption, gentrification, and organized crime. The latter represented mainly by the Hell’s Angels (thinly disguised here) who have in recent years seized viole ...more
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Maddy  rated it  
Nov 4, 2010
PROTAGONIST: Vernard “Get” McGetty
SETTING: Detroit; Toronto
SERIES: Standalone
RATING: 3.25

Vernard “Get” McGetty served in Afghanistan and returned to his home city of Detroit, where he is part of the leadership of a drug dealing network. At the urging of his mother, he ...more
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JOHN MCFETRIDGE lives in Toronto and works as a staff writer for the TV cop show The Bridge, airing on CBS this fall.

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Let It Ride
John McFetridge

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books
February 2010
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ISBN: 9780312599485
ISBN10: 031259948X
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 304 pages
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