Red Paint

An important crown witness in a case against a paedophile ring is found tied to a tree with his throat slashed. The officers guarding him are dead. The ring has operated undetected in British Columbia for years, part of a much larger operation about which the police know nothing.The lunatic responsible for the killing is bent on making sure the larger operation is left undisturbed, and he is still frantic to crush the one man he is convinced will destroy them.Alex Desocarras has been an RCMP officer for 15 years. A brilliant detective, his solve rate is legendary. He identified the involvement of a high-ranking RCMP Inspector in the paedophile ring and was relentless in his pursuit of the officer and his loathsome cohorts.The Inspector's arrogant exploitation of vulnerable children over the years, among them, a young member of Desocarras' Secwépemc Nation, and the abysmal failure of the police to protect the boy and others like him pains Desocarras...