Criminal Enterprise

From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, a pretty wife, two kids - a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another.

As the red flags start to go up, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere hones in on Tomlin from one direction, while Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens picks up the trail from another. The two cops haven't talked since their first case together, but that's all going to change very quickly. Because Carter Tomlin's decided he likes robbing banks. And it's not because of the money, not anymore. Tomlin has guns and a new taste for violence. And he's not quitting anytime soon...



A graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program, Owen Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker reporting before turning to fiction. He currently lives in Vancouver, where he's hard at work on the third and fourth installments in the Stevens and Windermere series.



Top-notch crime caper



Really terrific - characters that live and breathe, a just-right story, and chills aplenty. Highly recommended



Ingenious plotting, perfect-pitch characterization and evocative sense of place combine to create an impressive debut



Fasten your seat belts, Owen Laukkanen's

The Professionals is one heck of a wild ride. A first-class thriller by a terrific new voice



A high-octane adrenaline and gunpowder-fueled rocket ride across the country from Seattle to Miami to Detroit and points in-between... An excellent first novel!



A breathtakingly fast-paced tale that seldom pauses for breath... it evokes the language of the street with superb panache