MacIntyre, Linden.

Punishment : a novel / Linden MacIntyre. - Toronto : Penguin/Random House Canada, c2014. - 421 p. ; 24 cm.

"A powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason, in a small town shaken by a tragic death. Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew up to lick his wounds, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he'd had dealings with in prison is back there too - and once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart, Tony's first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony's past, the forceful Neil Archie MacDonald - just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force - stokes the community's anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. As Tony struggles to resist the vortex of vigilante action, 'Punishment' builds into a total page-turner that blindsides you with twists and betrayals."--Publisher.

ISBN: 9780345813909 (hc.) 9780345813916 (tr. pbk.)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 20149052243

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Kingston Penitentiary--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vigilantes--Fiction.
Punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction.
Correctional personnel--Fiction.
Retirees--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Betrayal--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Nova Scotia--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Canadian fiction.