The Judge

"Boston, 1985. With the late December cold comes a new job for ex-military operative turned private investigator Andy Roark. Boston judge Ambrose Messer is being blackmailed, and he needs Roark's help to stop the culprit. Messer is judging the bench trial of a chemical company accused of knowingly dumping chemical waste in an unsafe manner, causing birth defects and cancer. The evidence against them is overwhelming, but the message from the blackmailer is clear: If you don't want the world to know your secret, the chemical company wins. Messer doesn't want to let a threat corrupt his judgement ... but then again, he could lose everything if his secret comes out! Judging his client to be a man with morals, Roark plunges into action, determined to find the blackmailer before it's too late. But the disturbing, unexpected revelations he uncovers make him a target of some very dangerous people, who soon seem determined not only to wreck the life of his client, but to destroy Roark's too ..."--Provided by publisher.

About the author

Peter Colt is a 1996 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BA in Political Science and a 24-year veteran of the Army Reserve with deployments to Kosovo and Iraq as an Army Civil Affairs officer. He is currently a police officer in Rhode Island. He is married with two sons and two perpetually feuding cats. He is the author of the Andy Roark mysteries: The Off-Islander, Back Bay Blues, Death at Fort Devens, The Ambassador and The Judge.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Colt
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781448310708
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-1070-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Series: An Andy Roark Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, Boston, Massachusetts, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989