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Attentat à la bombe sur la Colline parlementaire

Written by
James A. Fontana


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268 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 9780888705006
$19.95 CA





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About the Book Une terrible explosion secoue l'enceinte du Parlement canadien. Le corps d'un homme littéralement eventer gît sure le plancher, les viscères éparpillés tout autour. Une odeur âcre s'exhale de la pièce...

Les évènements racontés dans ce livre sont authentigues. Ils eurent lieu en 1966. Les souvenirs s'estompent toutefois et les sources s'anéantissent, ainsi donc les évènments doivent être reconstitués à partir des rapports officiels de la police, des archives consignées dans le palais de justice, des procès verbaux parlementaires et de réminiscences personnelles.

Les faits furent colligés, jugés, disséqués et enfin adaptés pour en faire un roman. Cependant, l'enchaînement des épisodes est fondamentalement véridique. Les écrits de Paul Chartier, le desperado aux idées subversives, sont cités textuellement. Un personnage fictif fut introduit, le travailleur en construction. Il était bien connu que Paul Chartier fréquentait les cabarets et les pubs et régalait d'anecdotes quiconque voulait bien lui prêter une oreille attentive.

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About the Author James A. Fontana

James Fontana was born in 1938 in Fort Frances, Ontario, where he grew up within a fifteen-minute walk to the river where the great La Vérendrye's expedition passed with his huge, heavily loaded freighter canoes numerous times.

His interest in writing was instilled by the nuns at St. Mary's, the teaching personnel at Fort Frances High. It developed further at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, where he attained his BA. James then studied law at University of Ottawa, being called to the Bar of Ontario in 1966. After thirty years on the bench - four years as an Assistant Crown Attorney, twenty years with a private practice, and six years as a Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice - he retired in 2014.

In retirement he has returned to writing for the sheer enjoyment and has produced over seven books. He lives with his wife, Margaret, and their little dog, Reggi. His crime novels include "No Cause of Death" (1994) and "The Mad Bomber of Parliament Hill" (2005, Borealis).





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