Waiting for LeClerc - Couverture souple

Smith, Vern

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798990485181

Editeur : Runamok Books, 2026

Synopsis

Detective Alex Johnson says being on a stakeout is all about waiting, that absolutely nothing happens ninety-nine percent of the time. His partner, Cecil Bolan, insists that's a myth, that something of note is always going down. And, in this instance anyway, young Cecil would be correct. For while this two-tone fraud team sits inside an unmarked van poised to record a cash-for-drugs deal connected to a local money-laundering scheme, the main subject of their sting is secretly watching and listening from his girlfriend's balcony across the street.

Set in a Toronto parking lot, over three hours on the first anniversary of 9/11, Waiting for LeClerc revolves around paranoia, religion, downtown freaks, open public drug use, petty distractions, false perceptions, fashion felonies, Jheri curls, iPod girls, yellow-jacket season, and a Sharon Stone look-alike, yes. But it's also about how early access to D.I.Y. spy gear-however crude, unreliable, and campy-turns the watchers into the watched, leading to an explosive finale in a supposedly controlled space where nothing much is supposed to happen in the first place. Mostly, it documents the roots of how we came to be a surveillance society, along with the inevitable consequences of the same.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vern Smith's Scratching the Flint was named Best Indie Novel of 2023 by Crime Fiction Lover. He is also the authorof the novels Under the Table and

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Runamok Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798990485181
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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