performed by Steve Scherf and Maggie Scherf
There are high stakes in this clever and fast-paced
‘crackpot’ crime caper. Three hundred million dollars worth of Colombian
sensemilla – very potent marijuana derived from the female part of the plant –
is on a boat sailing from Colombia to a little-used cove in Newfoundland, an operation organised
by Peter Kerrivan, a self-styled latter-day Robin Hood. Unknown to Kerrivan, the
vessel is being tracked by a US government satellite, under the authority of
Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigator Harold Mitchell. And, as everyone
knows, the Mounties always get their man.
It’s not quite that simple, of course. Mitchell has asked
for help from a rabid anti-Communist ex-CIA thug Rudy Meyers who is putting
together a Cuban reinvasion force. He has traded drugs himself and is
responsible for various deaths, including that of Kevin Kelly – a crime
currently under investigation by Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Theo O’Doul
and DEA Special Agent Jessica Flaherty. The Canadian government is not happy
that the plot was hatched in the first place. And Kerrivan’s Canadian lawyer, James
Peddigrew, is concerned first and foremost with coke-snorting stewardess
Marianne Larochelle.
What ensues is a sensational and complex wise-cracking drama,
hilarious at times, and superbly brought to life by the very talented Steve
Scherf and Maggie Scherf. The repartee is exceptional, the twists and turns
bewildering. You will want and need to listen to High Crimes more than once, but
this is a tour de force presentation – exactly the kind of production that is
winning audiences in all parts of the globe and makes the audiobook one of the
most exciting mediums of the present time.
Stunning.
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