When conman Ray Carver botches a job in Texas and heads home to Toronto, he knows he has very bad men after him—what he doesn’t know is that the FBI wants him too.

Cover of The Wrecking Game by Chris Forrest book depicting a man holding a gun silhouetted in a tunnel

Ray Carver is a master at orchestrating multi-million-dollar fraud schemes, but he’s hit a bad patch, one that could get him killed. Back in his hometown of Toronto after barely surviving a bungled job in Texas, he sets out to pull off the biggest scam of his career so he can pay off his debt to a violent gang and start a new life. But they don’t just want their money back, they want him dead, and they’ll kill anyone who gets in their way, including a well-liked Texas rancher, Big Dave Watson.

While Ray puts the pieces in place for his biggest con ever, he stages a car accident to keep his crew earning money. A single mother and her child are injured, and that spells even more trouble. Ray becomes romantically involved with the victim who has no clue who he really is. Meanwhile, a pair of FBI agents with a history of their own cross the border hot on his trail, while a dogged Toronto Police traffic investigator, Gabe Kruzik, starts to put all the pieces together.

With Kruzik, the FBI, and a homicidal gang leader zeroing in on him, Ray’s time—and his luck—are running out.