The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Cape Rage (A Danny Barrett Novel) by Ron Corbett

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

Cape Rage (A Danny Barrett Novel) by Ron Corbett https://amzn.to/4aev8DE Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in the latest novel of the series the New York Times calls, "Dynamite." The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. The Feds were mostly willing to look the other way while the family smuggled everything from liquor to cigarettes across the border, but lately things have taken a darker turn. A recent bank robbery in Seattle looks like it may have been committed by the Danbys, but there's no way the FBI can get any locals to turn against them. Only Danny Barrett has what it takes to get inside the organization and shut them down. But before Danny can do that he's going to have to contend with Henry Carter, a former in-law and current psychopath. The Danbys thought they left Henry for dead in the deepest part of the woods, but he's coming back. He'll go to hell to get his revenge, and he's willing to take the whole family with him. About the author Ron Corbett is the Edgar and Arthur Ellis nominated author of the Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series. Set on the Northern Divide, the Yakabuski series has been called “Truly captivating” (Publishers Weekly) “Soulful” (Kirkus Reviews) and “A series with a long life ahead.” (Globe and Mail). Ron is also the author of the Danny Barrett series of thrillers called "A dynamite new series" (New York Times) and "nuanced...and vivid" (Publisher's Weekly). A former radio host and newspaper columnist, the father of four is married to award-winning photo-journalist Julie Oliver and still lives in his hometown of Ottawa, Canada, where he writes from the study of a century-old house, “not far from a good river.”

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Ron Corbett is on the show with us today. We're going to be talking to him about book two of his two book series so far. We'll find out if there's more. We'll be talking to him about his amazing book and everything that's inside of it. Ron is a writer, journalist, broadcaster, and co-founder of Ottawa Press and Publishing, a lifelong resident of Ottawa. That's in Canada, for those of you who don't know maps. Ron.

That came off just as good as I thought it would in my head. That was pretty good. There you go. Ron's writing has won, you know, you've got to help the Gen Zers out. Ron's writing has won numerous awards, including two national newspaper awards. He has been a full-time columnist with both the Ottawaller, The Last Guide, and critically acclaimed First Soldiers Down, about Canada's military deployment to Afghanistan. The first book in his Frank Yakabuski mystery series.

Is it Yakabuski? Am I saying that right? I said that name just so I can hear Americans try to pronounce it. Yakabuski, Yakabuski, any way you want to try to... There you go. Frank Yakabuski. I think I had a bookie named that. I think I had a bookie named that. His mystery series was nominated for Best Paperback Original Edgar

Award, and he's live on the show. Welcome to the show, Ron. How are you? I'm doing well, Chris. Thanks very much for having me on the show. Thanks for coming. We appreciate having you. Congratulations on the new book. Give us your dot coms. Where do you want people to find you on the interwebs to stalk you? RonCorbettBooks.com.

That's the best address. There you go. Right there. You can get the Frank Yakabuski. And you can't have fun with it. That's a Polish name. If you have a number, it's Frank Yakabuski. You can't have fun with the last name.

People up here, they say it all sorts of different ways, too. Do they? Have some fun. Look up a James Caan video on his favorite word. It starts with F, four letters. Find the various ways James Caan said he could pronounce that word. You can have just as much fun with Yakabuski. It's such a great word.

Yes, it is a great word. We've had some fun with it in your green room just before the show started. There you go. that's all we did We just Yakabuski-ed it up We're on forwardbooks.com That is everything Yakabuski And the Danny Barrett series Which is what we're here to talk about today

There you go The newest book is out March 19th, next Tuesday So give us a 30,000 overview What's in the new book? The 30,000 word, that's good. I was asked to do an interview recently that asked for the elevator pitch on

Barrett and I told him you shouldn't play baseball in an elevator and I refused to do that interview. They're still waiting for it. Danny Barrett. I don't know how old you are, Chris. Remember that old TV series called Wise Guy? Had Ken Wall on it. No, I'm only like 30 you're only 30

you know who Deborah Harry is yeah I know who Deborah Harry is Blondie yeah I had a crush on her when I was a kid Ken Wall was a star and he imploded it was a shame it was only two seasons of that show Ken Wall was an undercover cop.

Danny Barrett is an undercover cop. This is the whole premise of the series. He's an undercover cop. He's a Detroit cop. People seem to get this mixed up because the first two books, he was working for the FBI. He's not an FBI agent. He's a Detroit cop that brought down a lot of crooked Detroit cops. I don't know where I got that idea from. But he brought down a lot of crooked Detroit cops. I don't know where I got that idea from,

but it brought down a lot of crooked Detroit cops. So he becomes toxic. He can't work for the Detroit police force anymore. Just before he's about to get kicked off from the Detroit police force, you know, another, an FBI agent says, you know, you've got special skills. Maybe I can use you on this case I'm investigating. Well, he becomes an undercover specialist an undercover police specialist he gets called in to other police cases which is exactly the premise for

wise guy i stole the premise so this undercover cop moves from case to case when you know when they need an undercover cop with special skills so cape rage is the second one in the series. So it's the newest one in the series. It will be a series that takes place in the Pacific Northwest, that far from the Canadian border. And it's got some great villains. I love villains. Every novel I've written has some really good villains in it. This one has some great villains. And that is, I guess, the elevator pitch on Cape Rage. He's there. It's a criminal family. He's on an island. It's kind of like a locked room, but I have a locked island mystery.

He's on this island. He's undercover. He's trying to, this family is suspected of a bank robbery where two security guards were killed. He has to find evidence that this happened. He's on this island. Everybody suspects him from the word get go that he's a cop. Things get tense. He's on this island. Everybody suspects him from the word get go that he's a cop. Things get tense.

This family, after the bank robbery, killed one of their fellow robbers for reasons. You have to read the book to find out this fellow robber is not dead. He's coming after them. There's a femme fatale. It's a noir story. So there has to be a femme fatale in there. Very great femme fatale. And it all comes together in one night that a lot of things bad things happen in one night there's the elevator pitch i guess for the story

there you go sold we'll buy it there you go how much is it right off the internet right the elevator pitch ebook is cheaper there you go but yeah print book in stores like either now they say march 19th which is always a ruse, right? You can probably buy it now. Buy it now, Chris. Let's see. You can pre-order it now. You can't buy it, but you can pre-order it.

It's according to, I mean, it might be different in Canada if you're selling it there. You say pre-order it, but you know, it's not like it magically appears like mushrooms on March 19th. That's true. I went to Barnes & Noble this weekend, and there might be a copy there. I don't know. On audiobook, it does. It lets you know the moment it drops. I think to Barnes & Noble this weekend, and there might be a copy there. On audiobook, it does. It lets you know the moment it drops. I think on Kindle, too.

But I like the hard copies because there's something about the tactile nature of it that I still enjoy. I still enjoy a newspaper. It is hard. It's released as a hardcover. There's no paperback. It is a hardcover. The March 19th date is the hardcover, I guess, release date. Plus, you can always keep a bookmark in it.

Figure out, you know, I'm like, where the hell was I when I read this thing? So there you go. So was the inspiration, what was some of the inspiration that came to you to write the book and put it in this setting? I mean, obviously, if you put it on an island that he's kind of trapped on, that kind of raises a special level of suspense and tension, doesn't it? It does. That was the whole idea. Put him on an island. Locked room mystery is a term. Get everybody in a room

and lock them up, see what happens. That's what we do on Fridays around here. I'm sure you do. I'm sure you have no doubt. That's the whole idea. Put him on an island and see what happens. It's been done before. This that's the whole idea. Put him on an island and, you know, see what happens. You know, it's been done before. You know, this idea's been done before.

It's called Danby Island. You know, that's the name of the family, the criminal family, Danby Island. And I love that idea. Like, you know, just as people get suspicious of him and, you know, it's how do you get off the island? People are very suspicious of him. So it adds to the tension. It adds to the suspense.

And at the same time, as I said, this criminal, I love the criminal. The guy's name is Henry Carter. Wow. And he's bad. He's about as badass as you can imagine. So when he's shot in the back, he's left for dead. He doesn't die. He wakes up.

He suspects his wife. He's an in-law. This criminal family, it's a family and it's his wife Tess Danby who he suspects is the one that shot him so when he wakes up he's he's not a fan of the Danby's so he's coming and he's you know a thousand miles away it's where they left him for dead he has to get back there so it's you know it's it's it's a bloody trail he leaves getting back to the island so it's kind of it's it's it's a bloody trail he leaves getting back to the island so it's kind of i i thought it was a neat idea so as the tension mounts on the island there's a really bad guy making his way to the island so you got tension meeting tension and it all

comes together in this one night it all kind of explodes on this one night so yeah it certainly adds to the tension when you're stuck on an island with a madman coming your way and oh yeah yeah did i mention no boat no boat no boats you've got some problems there you go so either the tension builds you've got the scenario there and you know that it's you know it's going to climax into something so which is also fridays around here the tell us a little bit about yourself we're around we're going to climax into something. So, which is also Fridays around here. The, tell us a little bit about yourself. We're going to come back to the book, but tell us a little bit about yourself and how you grew up. When did you become a writer?

When did you first know you had the skill and ability and love to write? And how'd you get down to, you know, this field of writing your own books? It's part of the, I'm from Ottawa, as you mentioned, which is a capital of Canada. Maybe you just know the hockey team. It's the capital of the country. Nobody cares. It's the capital of Canada. I mean, it's Canada. It's Ottawa. It's Ottawa.

You know the hockey team. You're from Las Vegas, right? You live in Las Vegas? Yeah, we have a hockey team. Yeah, you're the defending Stanley Cup champions, are you not? Yeah. Did we win two years there? I don't know. I don't fall, and I'm a Raiders fan. You're a Raiders fan.

Yeah, the only time I go to a hockey match, a boxing fight breaks out. A boxing match breaks out. It's an old joke. People know Ottawa's a hockey team. The setters. It isn't a hockey team. It used to be a hockey team.

They still play. Anyway, so I'm from ottawa born and raised i still live in ottawa okay and i've always wanted i've always wanted to write treasure island actually it's kind of cool treasure island there's a little it starts off with a line from cape rage we must go on because we can't go back it's a treasure island you know we must go on because we can't go back to Treasure Island. We must go on because we can't go back. We're stuck. I've always wanted to be a writer. I was lucky and I became a journalist. I had a cool job when newspapers were doing really well. Does anybody remember

that? What's a newspaper? Can you lay the foundation for that? You're killing me, Chris. You're killing me. When newspapers were doing really well, I was a're killing me. But my newspapers are doing really well. I was a city columnist. I had the perfect job. I had the job I always wanted.

You know, that's the job that Jimmy Breslin had. That's the job that Mike Royko had. It was just, it was the perfect job. And I had it at both of the newspapers in Ottawa. And Ottawa's, you know, being the capital, it's a city of a million people. So it had decent newspapers. And I had the page five column for both those newspapers. We were rocking and rolling for a little while. And I wrote crime.

I wrote a lot of crime. In the Frank Yakubowski books, in particular, there's four of those books. There's only two of the Danny Barrett. But a lot of the stories you'll read in those, in those novels are real stories. Like, you know, some of the, some of the bad people you read in those stories are people that I interviewed. They really were, they're real people and yes, they were that bad. Wow. Some of the stories were real. So. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Half my time in court, getting paid for being in court. I was not one of those people that got dragged into court. That's the better part of the court to me. That's the better part of it. So I got paid for being down there. I used to hang out at the cop shop. Again, getting paid for being there,

not dragged in the cop shop. Newspapers used to have an office in the cop shop. It's hard to believe. Nowadays, they won't even talk to you, but it used to be a tie. What are you, a hung-up? That's because you're usually

busting them for something. Yeah, it used to be an office. It's hard to believe nowadays. Nowadays used to be a tie when you hung up. That's because you're usually busting them for something. Yeah, it used to be at the office. It's hard to believe nowadays. You know, nowadays, they won't even let you hear their scanners. I remember the day when they took their scanners away. So you can't do that. There's privacy reasons. Come on.

Privacy reasons. They just didn't want to. Yeah, they used to give us scanners. You know, anyways, now they keep you 20 feet away from everything, and there's privacy. Oh, yeah. I think more so they don't want to get caught busting heads of all the wrong people they like to bust heads on sometimes i've seen some of that certainly maybe there's reasons they keep us 20 feet away but yeah so that was a background i was a journalist for a newspaper

journalist for a lot of years but newspapers died i went into radio like we're making jokes just before we started here so when newspapers started doing not so died i went in the radio like we're making jokes just before we started here so when newspapers started doing not so well i went over to radio and i had a radio open line show yeah it's fun in a political town there's always lots of stuff to talk about so i had an open line show for about 10 years and i wrote it was was it political just to break it right up wrote the first yak touski book in 2017. Okay. That's what I did.

And so do you pull a lot from that crime writing experience of being a newspaper journalist? Yeah, absolutely. There you go. Yeah, absolutely. That's not all of it, but yeah, I do. As I said, Frank Yakubuski, who's the cop in that, I've met that guy. Not that guy, but I've certainly accomplice of that guy. He's a RCMP guy

up north, for sure. Wow. There you go. Don't tell him. He'll sue you or, I don't know, ask for a buck or something. Yeah, you don't want to get that guy near you. Yeah, but some of the stories are real. Absolutely. Some of the stories are real stories or cases

I've covered in court. Yeah, they come from real stories. There you go. It's a rich, I mean, what's the old line? You write what you know. And so that helps. We've had people like yourself on that did crime. Not that did crime.

I just accused you of doing crime. If you've had four billionaires on, Chris, you've had people on that have done crime. Come on. Probably. probably yeah that's true and what was the old line any man who's built great wealth has probably done a great crime i don't know who said that i think it was bill gates i've heard of it yeah i don't know why you're talking the so getting back to the book danny barrett tell us a little bit more about him because you seem to really love your evil characters in your books tell us more about Danny Barrett he's yeah I'm looking forward to writing more about Danny Barrett as I said he was a Detroit cop and what happened to him was the first line of the first book was

called the sweet goodbye the title of the first book and the only line was the first the first time i worked undercover the first person i arrested was my brother which i still think was a great line i think that line got me the book deal with with berkeley and and that's what happened he was you know an honest cop his brother was not an honest cop and there were a lot of crooked cops they're detroit police officers and by the way the way, I'm not picking on Detroit. I could have picked a large American city. I happened to pick Detroit.

They have a lot of corruption. I'm somewhat familiar with Detroit. It's close to the Canadian border, obviously. So I'm somewhat familiar with the city from visits to Detroit. They have a few issues there. You're not stretching the truth too

far when it comes to corruption, I think. Yeah, but I just, I had to pick a city, so I picked Detroit. I was also somewhat familiar with Michigan, Upper Peninsula in Michigan. I'd spent some time there, and this is part of Barrett's background. So his background, he gets convinced that his brother is doing bad, that a lot of cops are doing bad. They're, you know, connected with, you know, a criminal gang and they're really bad and he should do the right thing and bring these guys down. So he gets talked into that. He does that. And after the case is finished, to his surprise, he discovers that nobody wants him on the police force anymore because he's he's he's the serpico yeah exactly

that that sort of thing so thinking that his career is over that he's no longer in law enforcement much to his surprise somebody contacts him an fbi officer from another another city completely and says listen we've been following the case you seem to have special skills you're talented i can use you and that sets up uh him as an undercover police officer again getting back to that corny and but he's listening if they're familiar with that show wise guy i had all this you ever had this thought in your mind you remember something in your mind and when you go and actually look at it or see it or listen to it again you realize it's not as good as you remember my first 10 marriages i remember wise guys being really cool i think it was because of deborah harry and tim curry in the

second series they were both in the second series when i started coming up with the daddy barrett idea i found some episodes of wise guy and it was a corny corny show and ken wall was not a good actor but that was that was a premise of it he was an undercover cop who moved around to different cases because he was a good undercover cop so but he was a bad actor was that part of the plot of the movie or is that just your assessment you know there are people like that i'm not completely imagining that i'm sure it's the same in the states but i've covered court cases like biker cases. This is partially where I got the idea from, too. And there's biker cases that I've covered in court.

And they'd have an RCMP undercover officer who'd get flown halfway across the country. Like the guy would be stationed in Montreal. But he'd work a case in Moncton which is in the Maritimes but very French and he'd go undercover with a biker gang like he'd just show up and nobody would know the guy and you know two years later it turns out that he was an RCMP officer so that guy but came from Montreal and he went to Moncton to work undercover so this is that was his job but he was an undercover specialist. That's what I've done with Barrett.

And that's the whole premise. Now, the neat thing about him and what I'm hoping to explore in future books is that he did betray his brother and you can't feel good about that. Like no matter how bad your brother is, that's got to, that's got to bother you unless you're a complete sociopath. Betrayal is, it's got to, it's got to bother you, unless you're a complete... Sociopath? Betrayal, it's got to bother you a little bit. Unless it's fun.

Unless it's fun, or unless your brother is a complete... You hate the guy. Yeah, that's pretty much... Betrayal is a theme to Barrett, and it's explored a little bit in Cape Rage, and I hope to explore it a bit more. I guess it's complicated. Let's just leave it. It's complicated. It's going to be a little bit in Cape Rage, and I hope to explore it a bit more. I guess it's complicated, but let's just leave it. It's complicated.

He's going to be a little bit of a complex character. It's not straightforward, although at times it seems like it's straightforward with him. He's quite a badass. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It seems like, Chris, you strike me as somebody who might know what I mean by Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Have you ever heard that phrase before?

I have never gotten that shaving, but there's still time. I usually go with the tape and wax. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a way of fighting. This comes, you mentioned in journalism, this comes from a story I worked on. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is... Oh, it's a fighting thing. It's a fighting thing.

I thought this was... Well, you do it on the ground. You drop your feet, you bring your arm to the ground, and you go spider crazy on the guy. Oh, I thought this was a... Well, you do it on the ground. You drop your feet, you bring your arm to the ground, and you go spider crazy on the guy. Oh, I thought we were waxing something. No, no, Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Ed Barrett is a specialist in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. There you go.

I covered stories long ago in Canada. This is Canada. But they tried to ban mixed martial arts. It's funny that UFC is such a big deal. They tried to ban it here too. They did, of course. And I covered this. One of the first mixed martial events, bouts in

Canada, it was held on Indian territory. Akwesasne. And Mohawk. Sorry, Mohawk Reserve. Because, you know, they're Mohawks, and screw you. So they held this big event. But most of the event, they brought in these fighters from Brazil,

and they all did Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and it's something to see. They tackle the guy, and then they just go crazy on the guy. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And there, there's a whole scene in here where he goes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on an entire bar room. So he's complicated, but don't turn your back on the guy.

There you go. That sounds like my time in prison. I don't want to go there. I'm not going there with you, Chris. I'm not going there. You don't want to go to prison with me. No one should be going to prison. Don't do that, people.

I never went to prison, by the way, for those of you who are going to write me on the show afterwards i didn't know you went to prison they're jokes people god damn it it's a funny show i was going to give you a hand clarifying that i'm still i have a rule don't do anything that ends you up in prison that's kind of my well that's my one rule of life that i try and stick by if the cops pull me over for i don't know whatever i'm doing on a in a car i haven't me over for, I don't know, whatever I'm doing in a car, I haven't been pulled over in like 50 years. It's probably because I'm white. I just go,

yes sir, no sir. I never piss off the cops. Anybody who has the legal right to murder me and get away with it, I follow orders really good. I know my place in the food chain at that point. Don't ask a lot of questions either.

Why do you do this? Don't need to know. Yeah, yeah. I just, okay, I didn't use my turn signal. I'm a horrible person, and you're right, and I'm wrong, and how much do I got to pay for this? So there you go. So tell us about what's in the future for you with this book series

and the other book series you're working on. Do you have anything in the can? Like sometimes authors like yourself, they're multi-books, will have stuff in the can ready to come out. Or what's the future hold? I'm playing around with the third Danny Barrett one right now. I spent the last few years, I've been spending a fair bit of time in Tampa during the winter. You know, I am Canadian. I'm not a complete idiot.

I'd like to get out of here during the winter. So, and I've been spending the last few years down. It's in Largo, which is Gulf Coast. Ooh, Key Largo? St. Pete's. Do you know the area at all, Chris? No, I know the, I'm a fan of Bogey, Hum humphrey bogart and he did a movie called key largo yeah big fan so largo is not key largo but it's it's halfway there it's halfway there you're absolutely

right it's it's on the gulf coast between clear water and between clear water and what am i thinking of at st petersburg so it's on the g all the Gulf Coast. The last few years, I've been spending a fair bit of time there. And I'd love to set the next Danny Barrett one in that area, more in the Tampa area, which is very close to Tampa. Yeah. I saw Tom Brady's last football game, by the way. The one with the Patriots or the one with the Tampa Bay? Huh?

You're a Raiders fan, are you not? Yeah, I'm a Raiders fan. You're a Raiders fan. You had a great season, I'm a Raiders fan. You're a Raiders fan. You had a great season, didn't you? I don't know. No. Shouldn't be bringing that up. Yeah, we haven't had a great season in, I don't know, 30 years.

We haven't had a great season since that fucker Tom Brady stole that Super Bowl from us with that tuck rule crap. So, yeah, I'm still sore over that. I can't even. 92? I was a Raiders fan when they lost at Tampa. I'll never forget that game. Who was the coach for Tampa at the time?

I just drawn a blank on that. I'm not sure. It was Gruden. Gruden was the coach for Tampa when they destroyed the Raiders. That was the first time somebody was mic'd up. Who was the player that was mic'd up for the Raiders?

Was it Warren South? No, Warren was with Tampa. Anyway, I want to set the next Danny Barrett one around the Tampa area. I've got an idea on that. You know, a lot of the circuses used to winter around the Tampa area, around Sarasota. And there's actually a town called Gibsonton.

Look it up, Chris. You'd enjoy this. around Sarasota, and there's actually a town called Gipsonton. Look it up, Chris. You'd enjoy this. But the circuses, they travel around all during the summer and spring and fall. And in the winter, they would get up. This is when they all traveled on trains and everything. And in the winter, they would park. They would stay somewhere for a couple months. And they stayed Florida in between Sarasota and Tampa and there's a town called

Gipsonton which was founded by circus people carny people more than circus, there was a distinction I now realize between circus performers which were the elite, you know they were the top of the food chain and the carny people which were your freaks and the carny people founded were your freaks and the carny people founded this town called gibson tin and there's there's remnants of remnants as a matter of fact the carnival association of america there actually is an association they have one of the biggest bars you've ever freaking seen and it's still there it's still there. It's still there in Gibsonton, Florida. Sounds like a great place for a book.

The last few years researching. I'm hoping it'll be the next Danny Barrett book. There you go. And it was cool. I quite like Florida. Yeah. I love Florida. It's a great place.

Anyways, I've fallen in love with Florida. There you go. And so, yeah, the next Danny Barrett one could be in Gibsonton, Florida. I've already got a plot when the circus came to town. And that's my retirement plot for the next Danny Barrett one. I'll just leave it at that. You can call it Circus Rage. I've got a few things.

Midway Angel Blues is one thing. Circus, just call it Circus Rage. Just keep playing on the Cape Rage title. Gibsonton in Florida. They passed a bylaw. Probably the only town. What other town would have? They passed a bylaw allowing you to keep an elephant.

I mean, that's important. There's a bylaw there allowing you to keep an elephant in your backyard. And it's still in the books. If you have an elephant, you don't know what to do with it. You want to go to Gibsonton, Florida. Wow. And have an books. If you have an elephant, you don't know what to do with it, you want to go to Gibsonton, Florida. Wow. And have an elephant. There you go.

So any final thoughts and pitches as we go out on the book to get people to order it up and all that good stuff? Cape Rage has gotten some great. Yeah, sure. I'll put on my salesman's hat. Cape Rage has gotten some great reviews. Publishers Weekly, Library Journal. That's given it some great reviews.

Anybody listening now, if you're a CJj box fan he gave it a great review it's here i'll give you a little thing here there you go cj box ron carver is the real deal he gave it a wonderful review nick petrie mark cameron i got a new york times review this is for the sweet goodbye uh dynamite new series a book filled with grit and heart. What more can you ask? I can ask for more. Buy the book. Buy the book.

We need books. More residuals, damn it. Yeah, we need residuals. So seriously, I think it's, you know, I like noir. And people, you know, some of these reviews have picked up on it. Who was it? Mark Cameron. Shades of John D. McDonald.

You know John D. McDonald, he's a Florida writer. This one just touched my heart. Dash O'Hammett, two of my favorite writers. I didn't pay the guy to do

that. He just picked up on it. I think it's a good story. If you like those writers, you'll enjoy Cape Rage. I think it's a good story. There you go. March 19th.

This week, Goodbye got a ton of reviews. 395 ratings, 3.9 Goodreads, 712 ratings on Goodreads. I don't know why they just don't merge these because Amazon owns Goodreads. But very popular book. People loved it. Thank you very much for coming on the show. Ron, give us your.com so people can find you on the interwebs.

Again, roncorbettbooks.com is the best site. There's Facebook and other stuff there. Go to that site. That's the primary site. You can go to other sites from there, but roncorbettbooks.com. Also, people have been working on that site over the weekend because we knew you were on your show today. So go to that site, roncorbettbooks.com.

And Chris, this has been a lot of fun, man. It's been a lot of fun to have you. Please come back for your next ones, whichever series is rolling out there. We'd love to have you. I will. This was a lot of fun. Thanks very much for having me.

Please do. Thanks, Ron. And I'll be interested to hear how you like the Florida thing, you know, abandoning the old Canada. Everybody in Canada abandons Canada during the winter. Do they really? Can you blame them?

It's cold, damn it So folks, order up the book wherever fine books are sold Remember to stay out of those alleyway bookstores Because you might need a tetanus shot Or you might get mugged Order up wherever fine books are sold You can pre-order it It's March 19th, 2024 It will be available

Cape Rage A Danny barrett novel will be out and read it you can that way you're up to date and get the other book the previous one too that way you're ready for that third book when it comes out thanks for everyone for tuning in go to good reese.com for chest christmas linkedin.com for chest christmas christmas one on the tiktokity and all those crazy places we're on the internet thanks for tuning in be good to each other stay safe we'll see you next time