The Long Portage: A Jack Duffy Novel (The Shield Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

The Long PortageA Jack Duffy Novel — Book One of The Shield SeriesDetective Constable Jack Duffy has surrendered his badge, his service weapon, and his routine. The Special Investigations Unit is watching. The clock is running. And the city—with its noise, its second‑guessing, its version of what happened on Rectory Street—is closing in.So he goes north.Fourteen days. A Kevlar canoe, a food barrel, a German Shepherd who asks no questions. Backcountry site five on George Lake, deep in Killarney Provincial Park, where the Canadian Shield drops into cold water and the road stops being useful. Duffy knows how to read the weather, how to make camp in the dark, how to sit with something until it gets small enough to carry.What he doesn’t expect is a missing hiker’s yellow raincoat at the wrong end of the wrong lake. Or a Conservation Officer who seems to know more than he should. Or a woman with a camera—and a way of looking at him that suggests she can see what the wilderness is doing to him and isn’t alarmed by it.And underneath it all, unfinished: the night at Rectory Street. What he saw. What he did. What he still believes.The Long Portage is a novel about the distance between the law and justice, the things a man carries when he can’t put them down, and what silence finally says when you’re willing to listen. Read more