Brother's Keeper - Tapa blanda

Vince Maguire has spent the last decade as a journalist in Warsaw. A club-hopping dance addict, he isn't big on self-awareness. The ease ends when the dark world of his estranged brother intrudes. Teddy has fallen in with criminals who are trying to kill American oil executives in Warsaw. Vince finds himself framed for an attempted hit. While evading the Polish cops and seeking leads to Teddy's whereabouts, it strikes him that his lost relationship with Teddy is only one aspect of a greater loss. How did he get to a point where his dreams no longer mattered? How did Teddy get to a point where his "friends" could kill without hesitation? The answers appear to lie in the frozen oilfields of northern Alberta, a new Wild West where the normal rules of behavior don't apply.

Steven Owad journalism and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he taught English and began traveling Southeast Asia. Owad started writing short stories and sought work in the newly democratic countries of Eastern Europe, taking another teaching job, and later, working as deputy managing editor of The Warsaw Voice Weekly. He began writing plays in the early 1990s, which have been produced at small North American theatres. The experience gave him the confidence to write the novel, Bodycheck.