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River City

by (author) John Farrow

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Sep 2012
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443408325
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780002005807
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780006393535
    Publish Date
    Sep 2012
    List Price
    $24.99

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Description

On the night of the Rocket Richard Riot in 1955, the legendary Cartier Dagger is stolen from Montreal’s Sun Life Building. Many believe the dagger gives whoever possesses it mystical powers, and its journey through history is as spectacular as it is bloodstained. The same night, a police informer is found murdered in a nearby park with a dagger wound to his heart. But who murdered him, and why?

Thirteen years later, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is prime minister, and the separatist movement is gaining momentum in Quebec. The case is still unsolved, and a young constable named Émile Cinq-Mars is asked to investigate.

Suspenseful and labyrinthine, River City is at once a prequel to John Farrow’s bestselling novels City of Ice and Ice Lake a panoramic window onto a city’s storied past, and a brilliant novel of politics, greed, murder and myth.

About the author

JOHN FARROW is the pen name of Trevor Ferguson, who has written nine novels and four plays and has been named Canada’s best novelist in both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star. Under the name John Farrow, he has written two other novels featuring Émile Cinq-Mars, City of Ice and Ice Lake. He was raised in Montreal and lives in Hudson, Quebec.

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