Swap

Canadian rights only - please note: Swap will be released in the US by Thomas Dunne under the title "Let It Ride."

Detectives Price and McKeon are called to the scene - a husband and wife found slumped in their car, parked sideways on a busy downtown on-ramp, a bullet in each of their heads. That's what's in the papers, and that's all the public sees.Toronto the Good, with occasional specks of random badness.

But behind that disposable headline, Toronto's shadow city sprawls outwards, a graspingand vicious economy of drugs, guns, sex, and gold bullion. And that shadow cityfeels just like home for Get - a Detroit boy, project-raised, ex-army, Iraq andAfghanistan, only signed up for the business opportunities, plenty of them overthere. Now he's back, and he's been sent up here by his family to sell guns toToronto's fast-rising biker gangs, maybe even see about a partnership.

The man Getneeds to talk to is Nugs, leader of the Saints of Hell. Nugs is overseeing unprecedented progress, taking the club national, uniting bikers coast-to-coast(by force if necessary), pushing back against the Italians, and introducing aveneer of respectability. Beards trimmed to goatees, golf shirts instead ofleather jackets, and SUVs replacing the bikes. And now the cops can't tell the difference between bikers and bankers.

Detectives Price and McKeon? All they can do is watch and grimace and drink, and sweep up the detritus left in crime's wake - deadhookers, cops corrupted and discarded, anyone else too slow and weak to keepup, or too stupid not to get out of the way. This is Toronto's shadow city, and you won't recognize it.