Rain Dogs
[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]
[Read by Ray Porter and Timothy Andrés Pabon]
The year is 1976, and the first shots are being fired in the narcotics and human-trafficking war. Colt Freeland and his partner, Snyder, want only to preserve their small piece of the marijuana trade. Like a modern-day Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, do their work with proficiency and stealth and, when necessary, deadly force.
Hundreds of miles away, a law-enforcement task force patrols the border between the United States and Mexico, the desolate no-man's-land that separates misery and prosperity. They seek to curb the unspeakable violence that feeds off the ever-growing number of illegal immigrants who find themselves at the mercy of ruthless 'coyotes' they have paid to guide them in their desperate crossing.
Farther southwest, an elegant hacienda is nestled behind protective walls at an isolated ranch on the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Beyond the well-guarded gates, Miguel Zamora has placed himself at the center of a powerful circle of corrupt Mexican officials on the cusp of establishing ties with Columbian drug cartels. Zamora, driven by avarice and steeped in paranoia, begins to seize control of his world with a singular and savage brutality that threatens to unleash a firestorm of bloodshed on both sides of the border.
Snyder and Colt decide to cash in on one last marijuana harvest in one final run down the coast before leaving their outlaw lives behind them. But when their meticulously planned scheme comes undone, it forces them into a rash and hazardous escape from the law and directly into the crossfire of an internecine narcotics war that no one had seen coming.
[Read by Ray Porter and Timothy Andrés Pabon]
The year is 1976, and the first shots are being fired in the narcotics and human-trafficking war. Colt Freeland and his partner, Snyder, want only to preserve their small piece of the marijuana trade. Like a modern-day Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, do their work with proficiency and stealth and, when necessary, deadly force.
Hundreds of miles away, a law-enforcement task force patrols the border between the United States and Mexico, the desolate no-man's-land that separates misery and prosperity. They seek to curb the unspeakable violence that feeds off the ever-growing number of illegal immigrants who find themselves at the mercy of ruthless 'coyotes' they have paid to guide them in their desperate crossing.
Farther southwest, an elegant hacienda is nestled behind protective walls at an isolated ranch on the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Beyond the well-guarded gates, Miguel Zamora has placed himself at the center of a powerful circle of corrupt Mexican officials on the cusp of establishing ties with Columbian drug cartels. Zamora, driven by avarice and steeped in paranoia, begins to seize control of his world with a singular and savage brutality that threatens to unleash a firestorm of bloodshed on both sides of the border.
Snyder and Colt decide to cash in on one last marijuana harvest in one final run down the coast before leaving their outlaw lives behind them. But when their meticulously planned scheme comes undone, it forces them into a rash and hazardous escape from the law and directly into the crossfire of an internecine narcotics war that no one had seen coming.
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About the Author:
Baron R. Birtcher spent a number of years as a professional musician and is the founder of an independent record label. His first two mystery novels, Roadhouse Blues and Ruby Tuesday were on the bestsellers list of the Los Angeles Times and the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Angels Fall, the third installment in the critically acclaimed Mike Travis series, was nominated for the Left Coast Crime Award (the 'Lefty') for Best Law Enforcement / Police Procedural novel of the year. Rain Dogs, his first stand-alone novel, was a Claymore Award finalist.
From Booklist:
With marijuana legalized in Washington State and Colorado, is it any wonder that the stoner crime novel continues to flourish? Birtcher’s contribution to the thriving subgenre, set in 1976, stars Colt Freeland, a laid-back Vietnam vet interested only in running his small pot business in the untamed forests of Northern California. But cocaine has changed everything, and, miles away, on the U.S.-Mexican border, the drug industry is taking a new and ugly shape, as Mexican dealers negotiate with Colombian cartels. Soon the new world is on Colt’s doorstep, forcing him to pull up stakes and attempt one last run to the Southwest. It all goes bad, of course, as that archetypal “one last job” always does, leaving Colt in the middle of a firefight between a double-dealing Mexican drug lord attempting to end-run the Colombians and the Colombians themselves. Birtcher combines a gritty, action-filled thriller with a nuanced, almost contemplative character drama in which Colt and a wealth of well-drawn supporting characters attempt to make sense of their places in a run-amok world. Thoroughly entertaining. --Bill Ott
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1482912511
- ISBN 13 9781482912517
- BindingAudio CD
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