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Back from the Brink

#2 in series

by Emery Hayes
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Dead bodies and bad cops make for a brutal Montana spring-and a small-town sheriff's worst nightmare in the second thrilling installment of the Nicole Cobain mysteries.
It's a glorious spring in Blue Mesa, Montana, but not all is well in paradise. The authorities have been waging war against drug traffickers who use "mules" to carry the dope and cash across the Canadian border. And murder gets thrown into the equation when sheriff Nicole Cobain is called to the lake to assist Border Patrol but finds their boat adrift and a dead man in the ice. When the police drag the lake looking for bodies, they recover a satchel containing money and drugs—a satchel marked with the Border Patrol seal.
The evidence points to corrupt elements within the Border Patrol who are involved in the drug trade. Then, another murder victim turns up—the brother of Frank, a Border Patrol agent who's been trying to root out the bad agents.
Nicole suspects that the two missing agents may have been responsible for the theft of the money and drugs, but when one of them is found dead from a single gunshot wound, the trail suddenly grows cold. As the bodies pile up, Nicole begins to feel that she's the only good guy on the scene—and on the brink of a terrible discovery that could shake the community to its core.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Nicole Cobain Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 13, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781643855998

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      • ISBN: 9781643855998
      • File size: 2332 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      May 1, 2021
      A second case finds the sheriff of Toole County, Montana, up to her neck in potentially crooked law enforcement colleagues. Called out from Blue Mesa, from which their little department must cover an impossibly broad area, to assist the equally short-handed Border Patrol North, Nicole Cobain and her deputy, Ty Watts, find a BPN boat afloat on Lake Maria, apparently abandoned by Kyle Monte and Melody Baker, the two agents who'd asked for help. Plus, there's the dead body they were calling about, so completely encased in ice that the aid of a chainsaw is required before it can be thawed. Monte and Baker are nowhere to be found; the closest a search of the lake comes to them is a BPN bag containing a king's ransom in fentanyl. Certain that her search for the missing agents is only part of a deadlier hunt for money and drugs on the parts of both different police departments and numerous criminals, Nicole, fresh from a near-fatal encounter with Benjamin Kris, the once-loved father of her 11-year-old son, wonders with increasing apprehension whom she can trust. Larry Green, the BPN division commander still smarting over the loss of a pile of crucial drug evidence last year? Retired attorney Lois Embry, who's given shelter to Adelai Amari, a young Syrian who's just given birth while on the run from shadowy enemies? Special agent Devon Gates, who appears from nowhere to demand a role in the investigation? The answers seem to lie with the three Franks brothers, Matthew, Luke, and James, but it's anyone's guess how trustworthy any of them are. So many bent cops the poor drug lords barely register.

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