Criminal Enterprise
By (Author) Owen Laukkanen
Atlantic Books
Corvus
24th September 2014
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
284g
From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, a pretty wife, two kids - a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another.
As the red flags start to go up, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere hones in on Tomlin from one direction, while Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens picks up the trail from another. The two cops haven't talked since their first case together, but that's all going to change very quickly. Because Carter Tomlin's decided he likes robbing banks. And it's not because of the money, not anymore. Tomlin has guns and a new taste for violence. And he's not quitting anytime soon.
Top-notch crime caper * Sun *
Really terrific - characters that live and breathe, a just-right story, and chills aplenty. Highly recommended -- Lee Child on THE PROFESSIONALS
Ingenious plotting, perfect-pitch characterization and evocative sense of place combine to create an impressive debut -- Jonathan Kellerman on THE PROFESSIONALS
Fasten your seat belts, Owen Laukkanen's The Professionals is one heck of a wild ride. A first-class thriller by a terrific new voice -- John Lescroart on THE PROFESSIONALS
A high-octane adrenaline and gunpowder-fueled rocket ride across the country from Seattle to Miami to Detroit and points in-between... An excellent first novel! -- C.J. Box on THE PROFESSIONALS
A breathtakingly fast-paced tale that seldom pauses for breath... it evokes the language of the street with superb panache -- DAILY MAIL on THE PROFESSIONALS
A graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program, Owen Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker reporting before turning to fiction. He currently lives in Vancouver, where he's hard at work on the third and fourth installments in the Stevens and Windermere series.