Patrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van, a captivating thriller set in San Francisco's gritty underbelly, which was named aWall Street Journal best mystery of the year and was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Hoffman returns withEvery Man a Menace, a gripping novel about an Ecstasy-smuggling ring, where power is won through deceit, and millions of dollarsnot to mention dozens of livesare at stake.
San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar, just out of prison, is sent to the city by his criminal boss—still locked up on the inside—to check in on the testy Filipina who buys the product and the increasingly erratic dealer expected to take care of distribution. In Miami, meanwhile, the man responsible for shipping the drugs from Southeast Asia to the Bay Area has just met the girl of his dreams, but the girl can’t seem to keep her story straight. And thousands of miles away, in Bangkok, a former conscript of the Israeli army who is farther up the production chain swipes right on a male dating app, taking a chance on the wrong pretty face.
All of these men and women are struggling to stay ahead in a system that threatens to swallow them whole: an international drug trafficking network that offers them great rewards at even greater risk. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco, Every Man a Menace offers an inside look at the making, moving, and selling of the drug known as Molly—pure happiness in powder form, brought to market by bloodshed and betrayal.
