Go-Between

Actually, his name is Danny, not Jeff, and Emily’s real name is Michelle Mason, although no one can ever know that. Gary, an ex-CIA agent who got her and Danny into this whole mess, has just shown up in Humboldt County. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business, but so what? It’s true, firefighting isn’t really Jeff’s main job—that would be flying Humboldt’s finest weed to out-of-state customers. She’s on the run from her past—which has just caught up with her. And sure, he isn’t really Emily’s boyfriend, more like the guy she’s stuck with by circumstance. An all-too-realistic thriller about for-profit prisons, big-money politics, shady non-profits, the war on drugs—and the people who woul

When I read this book, I was thinking of Sarah Life is good, then your past comes back to haunt you. Danny ends up in jail, set up for transporting marijuana. Emily wants him out so they can return to the life they've been building. Danny is in a Texas jail. Emily is running her restaurant in northern California. How can she get him out?There's a problem. An old acquaintance wants Emily . Best Can't-Put-it-Down Book This Year "F'ing Gary." It almost made me chuckle-except that I still had an unforgettable memory of the scene at the dump in Getaway, Lisa Brackmann's earlier book about these characters. With plot twists, characters, aliases, intrigue, and tense, omigod-I-have-to-shut-the-book-for-minute-so-I-can-breathe-again situations, Brackmann is one of the bes. If you liked Breaking Bad, you'll love Go-Between! I first came across Lisa Brackmann's work in Rock Paper Tiger, a spectacularly interesting book set in Beijing and tracing the fate of an Iraq War veteran struggling with her past as she confronts an explosive incident in the present. Go-Between has a very different setting and a distinctive feel all its own. False identities, the drug trade

. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Travel+Leisure and CNET. She lives in San Diego with a couple of cats, far too many books and a bass ukulele. Lisa Brackmann is the critically acclaimed author of the Ellie McEnroe novels (Rock Paper Tiger, Hour of the Rat, Dragon Day) and the thriller Getaway

Brackmann had me in a choke-hold of utter happy reading splendor from, literally, the first sentence, and never let up.”—Cornelia Read, author of the Madeline Dare series. Brackmann’s mastery of the material rivals either of those and Go-Between establishes her as a force to be reckoned with in the crime genre." —Providence Journal "Brackmann goes beyond the simple and harmful morality tales of good cops and evil criminals. She explores who really profits from it. Praise for Go-Between"Nothing is as it seems in this terrific noir tale that channels Richard Stark’s stories." —Carole E. She investigates the very nature of crime. Michelle Mason is between lives, between names, between worlds, between versions of herself&h