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Lower City - by Alex Spring (Paperback)

Name: Lower City - by Alex Spring (Paperback)
Brand: Random House Canada
SKU: 1010492830
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Blending the gritty realism of S.A. Cosby with the page-turning pulse of Louise Penny, Lower City is a riveting new thriller that captures contemporary Canadian life and offers readers a new, young, unexpected hero rising up in the face of a hostage-taking and escalating fear and violence.
About the Author: ALEX SPRING is the pen name of Jared Bland, a writer and editor who lives in Toronto and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
368 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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Blending the gritty realism of S.A. Cosby with the page-turning pulse of Louise Penny, Lower City is a riveting new thriller that captures contemporary Canadian life and offers readers a new, young, unexpected hero rising up in the face of a hostage-taking and escalating fear and violence.

It is October 2025 and Hamilton, Ontario, is a city on the edge. As a trade war rages, jobs are threatened in the city's industrial sector. Tensions are rising as fast as rent, and people are frightened and anxious as shadowy power brokers try to harness the chaos to serve their purposes, sowing division and distrust in an effort to undermine the foundations of society itself. And on a quiet street in the shadow of the Tiger Cats' stadium, a young steelworker named Danny Clarke is nursing a broken heart and feeling adrift in a world he can't seem to connect to.

But when the city is plunged into panic by the kidnapping of the steel company's CFO with Danny as the only witness, he takes it as a sign that he is meant to do something. One after the other Hamilton's most influential figures are abducted, and the kidnappers flood social media with harrowing images and clips of the hostages designed to go viral, making an example of the people they blame for Steeltown's misfortune. As paranoia and polarization take hold of the city, Danny and his two cousins, Priya and Kabir, are pulled into the mystery, racing to stop the kidnappers and protect their community. Danny realizes that it's time to become the kind of man who steps up and takes responsibility for himself and others, rather than one who watches his own life from the sidelines. Because, as he will learn, the only way to save the day is to grow up.

About the Author

ALEX SPRING is the pen name of Jared Bland, a writer and editor who lives in Toronto and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W)

Weight: .81 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 368

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective

Publisher: Random House Canada

Theme: Amateur Sleuth

Format: Paperback

Author: Alex Spring

Language: English

Street Date: September 1, 2026

TCIN: 1010492830

UPC: 9781039016675

Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-4577

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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