Salvage

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Dundurn, Aug 6, 2016 - Fiction - 248 pages
2017 International Thriller Writers Award — Shortlisted, Best Paperback Original Novel
Phillip Scarnum must employ his cunning and seamanship to stay alive and out of prison in this fast-paced, gritty thriller.

Phillip Scarnum is sailing along Nova Scotia’s South Shore when he finds an abandoned lobster boat smashed on the rocks. He risks his life to haul it in, hoping to collect a big salvage fee, but before he can cash in, a fisherman’s body full of bullet holes washes up on a nearby beach. The Mounties seize Scarnum’s prize and start asking tricky questions about how well he knows the fisherman's wild widow. Scarnum needs to find out what happened on the boat, but as soon as he starts to investigate, some heavily armed Mexican drug runners show up, looking for 100 kilos of missing cocaine. Scarnum needs to keep a step ahead of the police and the gangsters if he wants to stay alive and out of prison and get the salvage fee that’s coming to him.
 

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THURSDAY APRIL 22
7
FRIDAY APRIL 23
24
SATURDAY APRIL 24
47
SUNDAY APRIL 25
67
MONDAY APRIL 26
85
TUESDAY APRIL 27
107
WEDNESDAY APRIL 28
133
THURSDAY APRIL 29
144
MONDAY MAY 3
218
SUNDAY AUGUST 22
224
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6
227
TUESDAY OCTOBER 19
229
FRIDAY OCTOBER 22
233
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4
236
THURSDAY DECEMBER 23
242
FRIDAY DECEMBER 24
244

FRIDAY APRIL 30
183
SATURDAY MAY 1
201
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
247
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Stephen Maher is an award-winning political reporter and columnist based in Ottawa. Salvage is his second novel.

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