A bank heist in a small Northeastern Ohio town succeeds, but the perpetrators didn't count on one thing: the man coerced into helping the robbers out isn't turning over the money until his conditions are met.
When Jack Trichaud left Montreal and a delusional father and younger brother behind in Montreal, he thought he’d found happiness in a small Ohio town on the shores of Lake Erie:a decent job, a wife, a house.But it all comes crashing down when his cheating wife leaves him and the brother he hasn’t seen in years shows up at his doorstep.The meeting between long-lost siblings is hardly a warm family reunion because, along with his ex-con brother, comes Randall Calderone, a hulking, psychopathic Aryan Brotherhood member with vicious skills honed in the Mexican cartel drug trade.The two ex-cellmates have a “favor” to ask Jack:they want him to help them rob the local bank by kidnapping the bank manager and holding her family hostage.Before Jack knows what to do, he’s in possession of almost a million dollars in stolen cash with a relentless FBI Agent hounding him, his brother’s psycho partner threatening mayhem (and his brother’s life) unless he hands over the cash, and an attractive girl playing him for the small-town loser he seems to be.Can Jack tap into the skills learned in a bizarre upbringing save his and his brother’s life? The hours are ticking down on Jack as he walks a tightrope with everyone watching his every move; will he survive or will the forces of darkness and justice closing in fast take him down like a house of cards under strobe lighting?
Excerpt
When You Run with Wolves
Tuesday, September 7, 7:05 a.m.
I came out of the deepest sleep I can remember in months. I remember only a tiny part of the last dream: I was climbing a huge pole with iron rungs high up into the clouds. I was delivering mail bags for the airplanes, which would fly past and catch them by their tailhooks. Jack and the Beanstalk—except this Jack was returning the bags.
Five of them, to be precise, moneybags. All stolen from the Fifth Third Bank of Northtown, Ohio. A place I had called home for the last ten years of my life until my ex-con brother and a psychopath cellmate named Randall J. Calderone showed up at my doorstep and insisted I help them rob it.
The Roller of Dice in the Sky carves out a few of his subjects for a special kind of mockery for his own amusement. My brother’s criminal life was proof enough. Many times my brother Carlos and I would regret our father wasn’t your average kind of nut who believes in little green space aliens. My father’s dementia kept his past a secret from us and our mother back in Montreal. He had that kind of knowledge so that, if you tried to discover anything about who he was or where he came from, he’d be there to confront you, and the last thing you wanted was to get caught spying on a spy who was acutely paranoid. I don’t know that he would have turned on us and killed us in our beds, but it was a thought that justified my desertion.
The cops walked in while I was drinking coffee in a rumpsprung wicker chair on my back porch. Chickadees and yard sparrows darted in and out of the big Rose-of-Sharon bush by the fence out back.
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