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Fiction Crime

The Work of Idle Hands

by (author) Jonathon Platz

Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Initial publish date
Apr 2014
Category
Crime
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926531977
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $4.99

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FINALIST for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel

If you had the opportunity, could you kill someone to prevent murder on a far greater scale? Quinfell knew he would never stop. The world had lost its balance, it needed a correction. In the very beginning, when the idea first surrounded him, he thought killing a man, even an evil man, would prove impossible. All of his training, first in the seminary, then with Amnesty, stressed the sanctity of human life. He had never been a soldier. He had never needed to kill someone for his country, or in self-defence, or to prevent a crime. But crouched on the hill above the farm on that moonless African night, looking through the rifle sight at the fat general swaggering towards his long black limousine. In this gripping new political thriller, former Ottawa civil servant Jonathon Platz casts his novelistic eye on the brutal government repressions that rocked South America in the 1970s.

 

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Editorial Reviews

With nods to John Le Carré, Work of Idle Hands is rich with colourful context, so much so you can almost smell the cigarette smoke and taste the blood.

Winnipeg Free Press