The Man I Liked

By Wilson Toney

Two jaded private eyes hunt for a missing college student and walk into a small-town drug trade where the cops may be bought and old loyalties can't be trusted.

Dave Roche hasn't seen Luke Hamner in years. Hamner taught him the trade, stuck him with the nickname "Roach" and took a bullet meant for him, then walked away from the National Detective Agency and got rich. Now he's back. His daughter Crystal, a junior at Rutland University, has vanished, and he asked for Roche by name. Roche can't work out why.

Roche and his partner Bug Wallis, a mountain of a man who would rather trade insults than knock on dorm doors, expect a runaway and a boyfriend. What they find is meth stashed in a popcorn popper, a dealer with a fixer lawyer, a kingpin's McMansion and two DEA agents who want them gone. The town's cops seem to be for sale, and every day the odds of finding Crystal alive get longer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQF9P5FT
• ISBN13: 9798167986466
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"