Dark Tide Rising

Commander William Monk agrees to assist a businessman in navigating the treacherous terrain of Jacob's Island during a ransom exchange for his kidnapped wife, taking five of his best Thames River Police officers along as protection. When the handoff goes catastrophically wrong and his men are ambushed from multiple directions, Monk must face the most disturbing possibility of his career: that someone within his own unit sold them out. The twenty-fourth William Monk novel is a taut story of loyalty tested and trust betrayed within the institution Monk has spent years building.

David Colacci narrates the Monk series with the practiced authority of long acquaintance, and his performance in Dark Tide Rising captures the particular horror of professional betrayal with the same skill he brings to the novel's physical danger. His voice gives the Victorian riverside world its atmospheric density, and the investigation's closing revelations land with appropriate force. At just under twelve hours, this is a strong installment in Perry's long-running series.