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Sundowner Ubuntu (A Russell Quant Mystery)

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Synopsis

A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse?

Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships, and tinderbox safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for.

Ever adept at making both friends and foes, Quant runs a gauntlet of uncharted danger as worlds collide. Thrust into the unfamiliar role of bad guy, stymied by seemingly insurmountable distrust and base fear, Russell cuts a blistering swath through covert threats and overt bullets. But as he searches for his Canadian needle in an African haystack, the brutality escalates. Confronting his own role in the cause and effect of scars and anger, retribution and revenge, Russell Quant faces a difficult question: What happens when the prodigal son resists the return?

3 Reasons To buy this book

Russell Quant is a beloved gay literary character.
Gay mysteries are hot right now.
Book #5 promises to be a stellar addition to this award winning series.

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Book Trade Paperback: $13.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days

Publisher : Insomniac Press

Keywords

Book, Cop/Detective/Police, Gay Male, Gay/Lesbian, Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

Genres

Books, Fiction/Literature, Mystery

Customer Reviews

Quant is Back

Amos Lassen wrote on 03/11/2011:

Anthony Bidulka has released his fifth novel in his Russell Quant series and it is good to have Quant back. Bidulka is a the top of his writing style in “Sundowner Ubunto” and reading it made me realize how much I missed Quant. In this book there are great characters, some of whom are new and some we have met before. We travel to Africa which Bidulka characterizes beautifully and his descriptions of the continent and the game reserves there are absolutely wonderful.
Quant to correct old wrongs and when a wealthy client hires him to find her son who has been missing for twenty years, the fun begins. Quant enters the drug subculture and eventually ends up in Africa where the vistas are glorious and the intrigue is deep. Quant is able to look at the various layers of the life of Matthew, the missing son. But to do so he must face danger and be thrust into the role of a “bad guy”. Looking for a missing Canadian on the African continent is no easy task and Quant finds himself having to deal with the issues of distrust and fear. He is threatened and fired at. He is also forced to deal with “anger, retribution and revenge”. Yet the biggest problem is the fact that Matthew is not ready to go home and resists the idea strongly.
The book is not only entertaining but thought provoking as well. There are twists and turns all along the way. Bidulka writes with brilliance and even though there were times that I thought I was lost, everything comes to an exciting conclusion.