Triggerfish: A Crime Novel

The author of The Deadbeat Club delivers "a total page-turner. Unsettling and sometimes horrifying, this high-octane tale will suit hardcore crime fans" (Publishers Weekly).

Rennie Beckman is a dishonored ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. After the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel's drug submarine, the date ends with a bang.

With the cartel's coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he's forced to go on the run with half the underworld chasing him through the streets of Vancouver and the waters surrounding it. While he tries to stay alive, a woman from Beckman's past—currently on the run from CSIS and the anti-terror squad—comes back to settle an old score.

When the gangs start to go after his friends, the ex-cop stops running and turns the tables. With a ragtag crew of his own, Beckman fights the cartel and bikers, head on. Fast, vicious, and thrilling, Triggerfish delivers a story where all the criminals are in conflict and no one is certain who will come out on top.

"A textured noir thriller, Triggerfish is one hell of a ride." —John Lansing, bestselling author of the Jack Bertolino series

"Gritty and raw. Triggerfish satisfies the need for all things dark . . . Leaves the reader breathless." —Crimespree Magazine

"If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"To say [Triggerfish] is highly entertaining is an understatement. It's badass. Straight up." —Crime Syndicate Magazine