Overview
"A HARD-DRINKING, TWO-FISTED PROTAGONIST IN THE MIDST OF A PARADE OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS-GRITTY REALISM AT ITS FINEST. After years of tracking down pedophile priests, Vatican investigator-and former cop-Father Michael Barrett snaps and beats one to near-death. Spared a trial by church intervention, he is transferred to a backwater parish in Fulton, British Columbia and told to behave himself. On one drunken night, Barrett crosses paths with the Paladins-who coerce him into accepting five thousand dollars to conduct a secret funeral for a victim of biker ""justice."" Caught in a sinister web of danger involving vanishing corpses, crooked police officers, phony Navy SEALs, feuding biker gangs and plenty of cold-blooded violence, Barrett alone knows how all the pieces fit together. Too bad he's sworn to the silence of the confessional. In a wilderness big enough to hide a hundred bodies-where one priest must be both minister and executioner-death and justice share the same tormented advocate."
Full Product Details
Author: Jamie Mason
Publisher: Rough Edges Press
Imprint: Rough Edges Press
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.186kg
ISBN: 9781685491420
ISBN 10: 1685491421
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
I've long admired Jamie Mason's thriller work, but Biker Funeral is a huge cut above. Can you imagine a Jesuit priest who was once a police officer? Who's placed in a struggling church in the middle of a remote village in British Columbia? And who's involved with feuds, murders, and crimes among biker gangs, the Catholic church, and the local First Peoples? Jamie Mason has and does it with skill, unforgettable characters, and superb writing. If there's something known as Rural Canadian Noir, Jamie Mason is now its king. Highly recommended. -Brendan DuBois, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Who's more badass than a big, burly biker gang brandishing pistols, Uzis, and bloody murder in their hearts? Father Michael Barrett, a disgraced priest with a drinking problem, a foul mouth, and a hot temper, that's who. Jamie Mason has created a haunted, complex, two-fisted protagonist in Father Barrett. A reluctant hero with darkness in his soul, but one who refuses to give up on the light. He talks too much, drinks too much, and fights too much... But he also never backs down. -Mark Allen, author of The Assassins series
Author Information
Jamie Mason is the author of several science fiction novels and thrillers. Born in Montreal, he attended the University of Arizona and Chapman University. After a decade spent teaching in the southwest, he returned to Canada in 2005. He has worked variously as a think-tank analyst, a business manager, a professional musician and a private investigator. Now semi-retired and living in the woods of Vancouver Island, he devotes his time to writing and savoring the vanishing Canadian wilderness.
