GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered ""one of Canada's top crime novelists"" (The Globe and Mail) and among ""crime drama's elite"" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.
An utterly vivid, completely disturbing account of how thugs with authority unrestrained by the rule of law and untempered by the quality of mercy can go about the physical, mental and emotional destruction of a person. - The Gazette Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. - Jonathan Kellerman, The New York Times bestselling author of Capital Crimes A tour de force, sorrowing and direct, sharp as a knife blade, beautifully written - an unforgettable window into the human capacity for cruelty and courage. - The Globe and Mail