The Dark Root A Joe Gunther Novel [Paperback]

A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one's talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada. Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the light with deadly consequences. International jurisdiction is a complicated thing, and Gunther will have to collaborate with the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Mounties in the pursuit of justice.Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which theChicago Tribunedescribes as the best police procedurals being written in America. He is a past winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fictionthe first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In 2011, Mayors 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place onThe New York Timesbestseller list for hardback fiction.
Before turning his hand to fiction, Mayor wrote history books, the most notable of which,Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan,concerned the lumber and oil business in Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1970s. This book was published in 1988 and very well received; it was republished as a trade paperback in 2009.
Archer Mayor is a death investigator for Vermonts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detective for the Windham County Sheriffs Office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and he travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops. He has 25 years of experience as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. Mayor was brought up in the US, Canada and France and had been employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance-man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, a lab technician forParis-Match Magazinein Paris, France, and a medical illusl“„