True Patriots

A breakneck political thriller for fans of Lee Child and Linwood Barclay about a right-wing cabal threatening to rip Alberta from Canada's confederation Tone builds on the tensions of the FLQ crisis era, but transplanted to modern-day Alberta Two protagonists lead the action: naval officer Claire Marcoux, a Francophone who has endured years of misogyny, and business school professor Daniel Ritter, recovering from a bitter divorce Author's debut novel, of which an excerpt won emerging writer's award at 2017 Eden Mills Writers' Festival