Black Water Transit: A Novel - Hardcover

To get his criminal son out of trouble with the authorities, businessman Jack Vermillion makes a deal with the ATF to turn informant on an illegal gun dealer in exchange for his son's freedom, but when the raid goes wrong, leaving several people dead, Jack is forced to flee to save his life. By the author of Close Pursuit. 35,000 first printing.

rk Times bestselling author Carsten Stroud writes with a brutal intensity that mesmerizes readers as it brings them onto the front lines of high-stakes police work. Now Stroud has written his most gripping novel to date, a high-voltage tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption — deeply rooted in the violent underworld of East Coast crime.

Jack Vermillion is an ex-Marine who came back from Vietnam and turned a two-truck shipping outfit into a multimillion-dollar empire. His work is his life. His only grief, a son, Danny, who ran off the rails years back and is now serving a ten-year sentence for armed robbery. A little downtime in Lompoc cooling his heels might do him some good.

But a desperate late-night phone call from Danny, in the prison clinic after a suicide attempt, forces Jack to go looking for a federal deal to save him. So when Jack is approached by a retired U.S. Army colonel named Earl V. Pike to ship his private gun collection — very simple, ver