Meanwhile, above Beauchamp's darling Garibaldi Island, Arthur and Margaret's goat harvest namely being taken concern of along a couple of newly unlocked, convicted eco-terrorists, a no s
mall material namely brings either Arthur and Margaret apt the attention of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service - and a scheming glint apt the eye of its pate of actions. Soon, Canada's newest MP and the husband she shadows accomplish they are being eclipsed along possibly the maximum incompetent spy since Mata Hari.
No one skewers the foibles of lawyers and justices quite as William Deverell does: with fatal aim and delicious intellect. And now Canada's funniest offense fiction writer has penned maybe the most searing, most hilarious send-up ever of the shenanigans that pass as politics in the nation's capital.
Retired lawyer and courtroom star Arthur Beauchamp is in Ottawa because his wife,
airforce one, Margaret Blake, the governor of Canada's Green Party, is immediately its 1st MP. But he hates it there: the cold, the politics, his place in his wife's shadow, the too-thin walls of the condo they are renting. So when a delegation of administration officials from the Central eastern nation of Bhashyistan is thumped sky lofty on its access to the Ottawa airfield, and the shares of a Calgary-based fuel company promptly drip favor a stone,
air force 1 hight, Arthur is only also cheerful to bound to the defence of the suspected assassin, a high-school teacher last seen obtaining into the back of a stranger's motorcar. Then the Conservative government, guided by the toper Huck Finnerty, is plunged into crisis when Mad Igor,
Kevin Garnett, the emperor of Bhashyistan, declares warfare on Canada.
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Deverell's latest Arthur Beauchamp novel cranks the wily antique lawyer's adventures up several notches, and then some. It's wildly imaginative, delightfully satirical, and irresistibly funny.
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