| The Tar Sands Diplomat: A Novel of the Canadian Foreign Service Contributor(s): Halliday, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1491792647 ISBN-13: 9781491792643 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - General |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.84 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Russians have a plan to kill Canadian oil exports. And Canada has a diplomat clueless enough to stop them. Macgregor is on a dream posting to Brussels, until a red-haired Russian prostitute dramatically murders the Canadian Mission's star diplomat and plunges Macgregor into a world of spooks, Russian oligarchs and eco-hacktivists. After Ottawa sends the G-7's least competent security team to Brussels to investigate, Macgregor realizes that-for the first time in his career-he actually has to do something. Fortunately he has something no one else does: Ottawa's biggest collection of spy novels. Unable to penetrate the digital defenses of the opposition, or even operate his own Blackberry, Macgregor falls back on spy-novel classics: disguises, midnight burglaries and hidden microphones. To his surprise, they lead him towards the truth. Unfortunately for Macgregor, they also lead him towards a well-connected Canadian oil company and the Prime Minister's Office back in Ottawa. |