Rust Bucket

by Eric Wright

Freelance writer, Josh Radley, hoping to scoop the competition, cancels his scheduled cancer treatment and rushes to an isolated site on Vancouver Island. An old freighter, beached in a storm, is found with a human cargo bound for enslavement in brothels, farms, and factories. The ship also contains a cache of explosives and drugs. The wretched cargo includes Chandi, a tribal girl from Pakistan known to Josh and his wife. Before these victims can be processed, the gang responsible swoops in, overwhelms the police, and escapes with both their most valuable human cargo and their explosives. Determined to find the lost girls and expose modern slave traders, Josh ignores violent threats from Chaudari, the leader of this smuggling enterprise. He plunges into the murky world of human trafficking in Seattle and Vancouver while continuing to avoid cancer treatment. His investigations also uncover a catastrophic terrorist plot. Will he be able to save Chandi and the other young women and help authorities defuse the terrorist plot? But on a personal level, will the chances he is taking endanger his own life and that of his wife Stephanie?

255 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2017

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Eric Wright was born in London, England and immigrated to Canada in 1951. He is the award-winning author of seventeen crime novels, including his first novel, The Night the Gods Smiled, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, the Crime Writer's Association's John Creasey Award, and the City of Toronto Book Award. His memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, about growing up poor in working-class London, was published in 1999.