Dead or Disappeared

A rogue PI is hired to find two missing teens. Then paid not to. He's going to find them anyway-come hell, high water, drug lords or Russian mob...--Things haven't been going well for Jack McQueen. He's a divorced, ex-RCMP cop with no friends left on the force. He takes a job from a First Nations chief whose teenage nieces disappeared. He expects a simple missing persons case.That's out the window when he's kidnapped, threatened, and bribed to drop the case. Carrot and stick. Jack takes the carrot-then sets out to find the girls anyway.First order of business: find out who grabbed him. He gets a partial plate on the car that took him-which belongs to the richest man on Vancouver Island (which is saying something), or a Russian Mob boss. He's not sure which.Until he finds two dead Russians with a photo of the missing girls, and traces of cocaine. Then he's pretty sure.As things turn out, live Russians are more troublesome than dead ones, and Jack is in their sights-along with his tech-savvy partner Stacie Machado, who's helping him research the missing girls.Their search leads them to a place Jack swore he'd never return to, Vancouver Island, where they come up against a drug lord even the Russians fear-and find out that Jack wasn't exactly given the whole story by the chief who hired him...