Douglas A David

Golden Shackles Douglas A David

Cal Healy is an ex-soldier turned Private Investigator. When Healy's brother Ernie, a Director in the BC Ministry of Mines, is murdered in a home invasion, he is enraged but sets aside his anger to grieve with his family. And then he resolves to find and punish the killers. RCMP Sergeant Tony Montgomery is Healy's best friend and his conduit into the Vancouver Police Department investigation. Healy learns enough from Montgomery to convince him to do some checking. Healy gathers information from Ernie's workplace at the Department of Mines, and his sources in Vancouver's DownTown EastSide. His new intelligence aims his investigation at a pair of suspects that the police don't see as viable, because his main informant is an alcoholic street person. Therefore, to support his contention, Healy travels to Edmonton and gains further affirmation that he is on the right track. His investigation takes him to Tulameen BC, where he discovers evidence of a modern-day claim jumping operation that appears to be Province-wide. A murdered prospector and criminal behavior in the gold claim registry office, lead Healy to mount a pair of attempts to trap the killers into mistakes. But it is Healy and one of his helpers who make mistakes that put his friends and associates in danger. Remorseful and angry with himself, he continues a solo investigation. From now on, the risks are his alone. Not without reason, the fabulously wealthy entity Goldstone Enterprises keeps popping into Healy's search. He keeps pushing at the evil-doers. The results are dangerous. A professional killer is enlisted and directed to eliminate threats to the kingpin responsible for the evil goings-on. The evil includes the death of Healy's bother. Healy is unaware that his pressure places him into the crosshairs of the deadly hitman, Alvin Lauder.