Drowning Man

Spring 2003

Paperback 256 pages

Fiction

Drowning Man is a surreal mystery set in a small British Columbia mountain city in 1970, with the ill-fated flight of Apollo 13 unfolding in the background. Sweeny is an aging, alcoholic reporter puzzling over a name that rings a bell for him, but he just can't put his finger on why. Who is the mysterious Nicholas Limousine, recently found dead in a hotel room? Why is his name so familiar? And why has he come to this remote corner of Canada, apparently for no other reason than to die?

Sweeny has been on the skids for some time now, and is trying to make a comeback as a reporter for a paper he once owned, after a career that led him to Toronto, the United States, and Europe. As this noir novel unfolds it becomes clear that Sweeny and Limousine are inextricably linked. The mystery deepens as Sweeny remembers a 35-year-old clue and realizes that discovering the identity of Nicholas Limousine will lead him to his own past.