Blackmail by Michael Stokes

Description

A group of professional criminals pull off a daring robbery but one of them becomes involved in a struggle with a security guard who is shot and seriously injured. The gang leader, Michael Doyle, establishes a seemingly perfect alibi, but Doyle is implicated through the DNA of one of the robbers and CTV footage. Then a judge’s home is raided and his wife and young son are kidnapped with the threat they will only be released if he rules against Doyle’s prosecution. Will the judge do what the kidnappers demand?

This is the debut novel of a retired judge. 536pp