Port City Shakedown

The first novel in veteran crime writer Gerry Boyle’s series about young Brandon Blake a loner who lives on an old cabin cruiser in Portland Harbor. Blake learned early to depend on no one but in an incident on a ride-along with the Portland Police Department Blake is marked for payback by a violent ex-con. Meanwhile questions begin to arise about his mother who disappeared when he was three years old. This is a tale of opportunistic predators on a collision course; it is about the ocean the fortunes it can deliver—and the lives it can swallow whole.