Christopher D. Evans QC practiced criminal law in Canada for fifty years and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1978. Evans’ published titles include Milt Harradence: The Western Flair; A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar; and Less Painful Duties: Reflections of the Revolution in the Legal Profession. Along with LM Shyba, he penned the controversial novel 5000 Dead Ducks: Lust and Revolution in the Oilsands, upon which this book is based.