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  • Operation Renegade
    Jeremy Akerman
    At the height of the Cold War, a global crisis throws together uneasy allies. Their agents need to collaborate with those they are used to considering rivals, to prevent loss of life on a catastrophic scale. Complicating matters, nobody knows for certain where the threat is coming from and who among their colleagues they can trust.Part high-tension thriller and part personal dr...
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    15,61 €

  • The Man who Came from Away
    Jeremy Akerman
    In 1970, screenwriter Winston Barber comes to Cape Breton to seek out stories that might make good movies. In Glace Bay, he discovers welcome and confrontation, community and conflict, and stories galore...including one in which he finds himself playing the lead.With this book, Jeremy Akerman returns to the scene of his first novel, Black Around the Eyes. In that book, set in t...
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    12,45 €

  • Decline and Fall
    Jeremy Akerman
    Marc LeBlanc steps away from his work as a private investigator to do a favour for his friend, the Premier of Nova Scotia, and finds himself catapulted into the tangled and sometimes-dark world of provincial politics. As Premier Proctor rolls out bold initiatives, can Marc help him find out who is really on his side, and who is against him? ...
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    14,77 €

  • My Brother’s Keeper
    Jeremy Akerman
    Marc LeBlanc has to make a quick trip to the Caribbean to resolve a family matter, and then finds an intriguing puzzle very close to home. Curiously, the closer he gets to solving it, the more resistance there is from mysterious parties. Getting to the bottom of this matter turns out to be both difficult and dangerous. ...
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    11,55 €

  • Best Served Cold
    Jeremy Akerman
    In the fourth Marc LeBlanc mystery, Marc agrees to look into a case that the police have put down to accidental death. His investigation is interrupted by a trip to Wales and Scotland, the results of which help him in the case in an unexpected way. He begins to suspect that more than one death may be involved. ...
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    12,42 €

  • The Plot to Kill the Premier
    Jeremy Akerman
    Amateur sleuth Marc LeBlanc is pulled into a complex case when his friend, the Premier of Nova Scotia, starts receiving death threats. Marc’s challenge is to help locate the source of the threats. Is the danger from inside the Premier’s closest circle? ...
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    12,56 €

  • Explosion
    Jeremy Akerman
    In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman’s novel sets the scene through the eyes of admirals and lovers, harbour pilots and telegraphers, those who fought to avert the disaster and those who had no idea what was a...
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    10,00 €

  • In Search of Dr. Dee
    Jeremy Akerman
    A movie actor gets a chance at a remarkable part, that of the 16th-century Doctor Dee, philosopher, alchemist, speaker to angels, and intimate of Queen Elizabeth I. He sets out in search of a connection to the good doctor. In his own time, the real Doctor Dee is on a different, and darker journey. ...
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    11,52 €

  • The Premier’s Daughter
    Jeremy Akerman
    Tom Aldridge, a rising politician in Nova Scotia, is used to juggling many tasks and bringing order out of chaos. He is as adept at steering government policy as he is at directing plays. But an unexpected opportunity comes into his life--and then a series of challenges. How much can he juggle? ...
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    12,36 €

  • The Affair at Lime Hill
    Jeremy Akerman
    Called home to Cape Breton by a family crisis, a Toronto policewoman finds herself drawn back into familiar complexities of local relationships, the possibility of romance, and a mystery or two. The story unfolds against the rich canvas of the people, land, and sea that make Cape Breton unique. ...
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    11,49 €

  • Black Around the Eyes
    Jeremy Akerman
    Diamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. Black Around the Eyes evokes the men and women, the joys and grief, the stark beauty and harsh struggles of that time and place.This moving, searing novel, at times hilarious and at others heart-rending, has been out of print for far too long. Moose House is pro...
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    10,67 €

  • Outsider
    Jeremy Akerman
    Jeremy Akerman’s no-holds-barred memoir, running from his childhood in Wales to archaeological digs in Cape Breton, into and out of the political arena, and through his career as an actor, offers a look, both searing and hilarious, at a life well-spent. Akerman grew up in Wales, studied painting, and gained skills in several fields and a strong sense of the need for political...
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    15,80 €