The Law-Breakers

The Canadian prairie in summer heat, where the law is just another thing the dust tries to bury. Inspector Stanley Fyles stands on a dusty platform waiting for a freight train that carries a more profitable cargo than grain: contraband liquor moving through a territory where prohibition has made criminals of men who once considered themselves respectable. The outlaws are planning something audacious, a robbery on a moving train, and Fyles knows they're coming. What follows is a relentless chase across the open range, a cat-and-mouse game played out under endless sky where the stakes are nothing less than justice and survival. Cullum writes with the stark poetry of frontier life, blending genuine tension with moments of dark humor, capturing a world where the line between lawman and outlaw blurs in the heat shimmer. This is early 20th century Canada at its most raw and uncompromising, for readers who want their crime fiction with grit and atmosphere.