Schedule Two

by Gaylord Dold

In the mendacious drug subculture of San Francisco, Korean strong arms have secured the market by eradicating their competitors. When Grace Wu, an undercover cop, gains a position in one dealer's middle management operation, it seems certain the police will get the upper hand. Though she's meticulous about covering her tracks and maintaining her secret identity, a frenetic fellow officer cracks and betrays her, igniting a violent string of events lead to an explosive end.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Gaylord Dold was born in Kansas and raised in southern California during the good old days. He was educated at the University of Kansas, the University of California, and the London School of Economics, where he took an advanced degree in international law. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a chauffeur, theater usher, legal services attorney, law professor and volunteer mentor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Watermark Press which published works like Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien, which later became a film directed by Mike Figgis, starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue. Dold has published eighteen novels and five travel guides. Many of his crime novels have received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist; many have been praised by Marilyn Stasio and others in the New York Times Book Review and in newspapers like the Portland Oregonian, The Washington Post and Boston Herald. His novel Schedule Two was picked as the best crime novel of 1996 by the Portland Oregonian, while his legal thriller The Devil to Pay was picked as one the best ten crime novels of 1998. His novels have been published in Japan, England, and Brazil. Dold has read his work throughout the United States and has conducted numerous writing workshops. He published The Last Man in Berlin in 2004, a novel set in pre-Nazi Germany during the early 1930s. Most recently he has completed and published three contemporary crime novels, two featuring ex-Marine Jack Kilgore, and one a dystopian science fiction thriller called The Swarming Stage.
After twenty-five years of non-stop work, Dold has, since 2006, taken time off to travel and write five books, including novels, a memoir, and a YA that takes place in Wyoming. At present he continues researching non-fiction books about fly fishing on the old Mountain Man rendezvous sites and along the Continental Divide, writing science fiction, and is busy on a new fiction suspense novel about dream research
These days, Dold is at home on the southern prairie. He is an adept fly fisherman, an ardent gardener and an amateur pianist and guitarist. He rides horses poorly and loves dogs. He continues to travel widely in the Caribbean, the south Pacific and the western Rockies.

Visit the author at gaylorddold.com

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

not the worst book I've ever read but nothing particularly outstanding about it either. The characters were somewhat steretypical (the dirty cop, the good cop who gets a raw deal and turns vigilante, the lost soul trying to run from his past and save others from his fate)though not so overly stereotypical that you don't care a little bit about them. As is often the case for me, I leave the book unsatisfied with the ending.