num_pages: 432
description: In Punishment his first novel since completing his Long Stretch trilogy Scotiabank Giller-winner Linden MacIntyre brings us a powerful exploration of justice and vengeance and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason in a small town shaken by a tragic death. Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew up to lick his wounds only to find that Dwayne Strickland a young con hed had dealings with in prison is back there tooand once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart Tonys first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tonys past the forceful Neil Archie MacDonaldjust retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police forcestokes the communitys anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. As Tony struggles to resist the vortex of vigilante action Punishment builds into a total page-turner that blindsides you with twists and betrayals.
language: English
title: Punishment
publisher: Random House Canada