Roar Back

Name: Roar Back
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Farrow
ISBN: 9781684579945

Author: John Farrow

Series: Emile Cinq-Mars Thriller #8

Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 05/05/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal.

Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment.

When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating.

While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.

About John Farrow

John Farrow is the pseudonym of Trevor Ferguson, a Canadian novelist and playwright with seven novels in the Ã‰mile Cinq-Mars thriller series and seven literary novels under his own name. Booklist in New York has called his crime series the best of our time. Die Zeit in Germany has called it the best of all time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on May 02, 2020

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Very well written. Well developed characters and the setting is one of my favourite cities in Canada, Montreal. (The dance clubs there are legend!) (Scenery is not bad either! JK!) This book......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on January 22, 2020

I would like to thank Netgalley and Severn House for an advance copy of Roar Back, the eighth novel to feature Montreal based Detective Emile Cinq-Mars. It’s 1978 and on his first day of promotion to Sergeant Detective Cinq-Mars is sent out to a most unusual burglary where all the occupants of an apa......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on April 26, 2020

Set in 1978 Montreal, this procedural features an interesting detective in Emile Cine-Mars. A former priest, he's a conflicted man and a sharp detective. Assigned to investigate an odd robbery and then murder, he finds himself looking backwards 20 years to the root of a current Mafia and other bad g......more

Goodreads review by Hannelore on April 10, 2020

Thank you NetGalley and Severn House for the eARC. I love books set in Montreal, especially if it's the 70's, as I lived there at the time. This was my first foray into the series and I was sorry I hadn't read any of the previous books; it would undoubtedly have added to my reading enjoyment. Will be......more