High Crimes

By William Deverell

Book Overview

A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers carrying on a grand tradition. A high-powered RCMP inspector obsessed with their capture. A day-dreaming police scientist caught in a dilemma between the call of duty and his infatuation with a voluptuous femme fatale. A multi-million-dollar cargo of pot on a creaky freighter. A merry high-seas romp from Newfoundland to Colombia to Miami and the North Atlantic. Undercover plots, double-dealing, triple betrayal, and murder. These are the elements that bulleted "High Crimes" to the top of the best-seller list. The events are drawn from one of the lawyer-author's celebrated trials.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312372213
• ISBN13: 9780312372217
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

High Crimes on the High Seas

High Crimes is the best of William Deverell's books, and they're all great. This one follows a couple of Newfoundlanders on a drug deal, and the flavour and personality of the true Newf comes straight through the text. Highly entertaining, exciting, funny and, I suspect, more accurate than most of us realize. A book to be read again and again.