Hard-hitting crime fiction from the author of Tin Men : “Fans of Charlie Huston and Chuck Palahniuk will probably enjoy Darwin’s Nightmare.” ― Sacramento Book Review “Merciless but honest about being monstrous, Wilson is worthy to stand next to Loren Estleman’s Peter Macklin and Donald Westlake’s Parker.” ― Publishers Weekly No one forgets, no one gets away clean, and no good deed goes unpunished Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was or how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really working jobs for one very bad man, illegal jobs no one could ever know about. Wilson liked being invisible and successfully protected his anonymity ― until the day he unwittingly crossed a line and risked everything to save his last connection to humanity. All he has to do was finish off a simple steal a bag from the airport and hand it off. No one said what was in the bag, and no one mentioned who the real owners were or what they might do to get it back. But this bag sets into motion a violent chain of events in the underworld of Hamilton, Ontario, rousing a vengeful mob boss. No one will escape untouched …

A dangerous mobster’s nephews are missing and the only suspects are his lieutenants. Wilson is pulled back to once again work under the radar—to quietly find out who is responsible, so it can be settled with screams. Wilson is back to being what he was. He’s a grinder again. All bets are off and before he’s done—everyone will pay.

Justice isn't blind in the city; it's as bent as the tip of a bullet. Dirty cops are using Wilson as bait and the only way for him to stay out of cuffs is to help put someone worse in them. Wilson picks a fight with the Russian mob and lures both cops and robbers into his own trap. Everyone is crooked in the city, but not everyone is a survivor.

Heists, double crosses, and brutality drive this fast-paced fourth installment of the Wilson Mystery series An armoured car carrying a huge payday will be rolling through the city every Friday for four weeks. Out of money, Wilson takes up with Ruby, an old partner, for a job that promises a huge score. The only Ruby’s kid, Rick, wants in on the deal. Rick is everything Wilson isn’t but without him there is no job. Wilson signs on with the condition that he runs the job; he plans it, supplies it, and staffs it. The job is a success, but so is the double cross. Wilson loses the money and almost his life. He sets out after his partners and learns that nothing was ever as it seemed – nothing but the blood on the ground. Honour among thieves is bullshit, but Ruby and her son should have known better than to try and play another man’s game.

“This is a very good entry in a very good series.” ― Booklist Mob enforcer Wilson returns in this taut, gritty crime novel Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous man wants Wilson to get him something more valuable than a painting. Problem is Wilson only has a week. Wilson and his crew cross the Canadian border to Buffalo, New York, to steal a two-hundred-year-old violin. A lot of people are interested in getting their hands on the instrument ― and none of them are shy about killing to get it. The job starts like a bad joke ― a thief, a con man, a wheel man, and a gangster get in line to cross the border ― but the Buffalo job doesn’t end with a punchline. It ends with blood . . .

A highly entertaining heist thriller that combines “the intense grit of Richard Stark’s Parker series with the amorality of Jim Thompson’s work” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) A phone call brought Wilson and nine other men to a job in New York. At first, he couldn’t see a way to make the heist work, but the score ― millions of dollars in diamonds ― motivated him to try. Wilson came up with a plan he knew would work . . . until the inside man got killed and took the job with him. With no way inside, the crew walks away without the diamonds. Now, on his own, Wilson is free to execute the job his way. He sets a con in motion that should run as predictably as a trail of dominoes ― except the con doesn’t rely on inanimate tiles, it relies on people. And when Wilson pushes all the pieces across the board, he finds that there are other players making their own moves against him. No one is willing to walk away because the job is about more than money. The job is about diamonds. And in this game, rocks beat paper every time.