With Let It Ride, the author of two critically acclaimed Canadian
crime novels, John McFetridge, takes us deep inside the gray zone on the
Canadian and American border, delivering all the up-to-the-minute twists
and edgy action of an episode of The Wire.
Vernard "Get" McGetty is back from serving in Afghanistan, back dealing
drugs in Detroit and looking to move up with his buddy JT, a guy he met
in Kandahar who also happens to be the leader of the Saints of Hell--a
notorious Ontario biker gang currently in the process of taking over all
north-of-the-border drug traffic. Commuting weekly across the line into
the center of JT's high-flying empire, Get hooks up with Sunitha, a
decidedly independent woman who's gone from working seedy massage
parlors to robbing them at gunpoint--and has dreams of a much bigger
score: taking the Saints for the millions they have stashed in gold
bars.
Meanwhile, the Toronto cops have the Saints under a microscope.
Detectives Price and McKeon are getting nowhere with a double drive-by
killing on the Gardiner Expressway--a husband and wife returning from a
swingers party--and the investigation keeps leading back to the Saints.
