Zero Avenue, Dietrich Kalteis
Zero Avenue, Dietrich Kalteis
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Zero Avenue

Author: Dietrich Kalteis

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 5 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/03/2017


Synopsis

An edgy, fast-paced story of gangsters, danger, and drug smuggling set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of the birth of Vancouver's punk rock scene in the late 1970s. "If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you." - The Globe and Mail Set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver's early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk star who runs just enough dope on the side to pay the bills and keep her band, Middle Finger, together. The trouble is she's running it for Marty Sayles, a powerful drug dealer who controls the Eastside with a fist. When Frankie strikes up a relationship with Johnny Falco, the owner of one of the only Vancouver clubs willing to give punk a chance, she finds out he's having his own money problems just keeping Falco's Nest open. Desperate to keep his club, Johnny raids one of the pot fields Marty Sayles has growing out past Surrey, along Zero Avenue on the U.S. border. He gets away with a pickup load and pays back everybody he owes. Arnie Binz, bass player for Waves of Nausea, finds out about it and decides that was easy enough. But he gets caught by Marty's crew. Johnny and Frankie set out to find the missing Arnie, but Marty Sayles is pissed and looking for who ripped off his other field - a trail that leads to Johnny and Frankie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on March 16, 2019

Zero Avenue by Dietrich Kalteis is a super-fast-paced neo-noir crime thriller published by ECW Press in Toronto and set in Vancouver's 1979 punk scene. Kalteis writes very much in the extremely clean style of Elmore Leonard, more than any writer I've yet come across, but Kalteis' writing is even tigh......more

Goodreads review by Ron on August 29, 2017

Kalteis has penned a fast, loose and loud punk rock novel set in Vancouver, B.C. circa 1979. If you're old enough to remember when Hugh Dillon was a singer, not an actor, and Vancouver was No Fun City and not the real estate nightmare/playground of the rich it has since become, this book will reward......more

Goodreads review by Murder in Common on September 28, 2017

Kalteis gives us a sense of place and time in the Vancouver punk scene. It's not lovely but it's honest. Join me for the blog tour on Murder In Common, October 2nd SUBSCRIBE to MurderInCommon.com to win a copy of Zero Avenue (Canada/US residents only) More info from Kalteis will be included with my rev......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on September 26, 2017

Unique (at least to me) crime novel with a likable protagonist set in the 1970s Vancouver music scene. Frankie is both a punk rocker and a minor dealer; she's also a pretty good friend. The fact that the drug in question here is marijuana seems sort of amusing these days but it was a pretty darn ser......more

Goodreads review by Harold on September 13, 2017

A GoodReads GiveAway Canadian crime. B. C. Misfits and losers dealing drugs and making music. Carl Hiaasen's characters came to mind. That is not a bad thing, eh b'ys?......more