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Members of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdicts?" The court clerk asked her rote question with a wavering, tell-me-don't-tell-me tone that seemed to capture perfectly the nervous, nerve-wracked mood among the more than three dozen men and women sitting in the Halifax Law Court's Courtroom 3-1 on the blustery afternoon of December 18, 1998. Everyone in the sterile, high-ceiling, red-bricked courtroom craned to look at the six women and four...
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Excerpted from the forthcoming nonfiction thriller, What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five, "Shootdown" provides a chilling account of how a Miami based anti-Castro group launched an escalating series of incursions into Cuban airspace the American government seemed unable or unwilling to stop, and how those provocations led to tragedy over the Straits of Florida and, later, a travesty in a Miami courtroom.
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On the night of December 1, 1943, Frank Johnson, a Commander in the Royal Navy, returned to his Halifax base after an urgent train trip to New York where he'd visit his wife. She was in hospital there in a coma after what had been described as a tragic car accident. Arriving at his Marlborough Woods home around midnight, Johnson spent the night burning documents in his fireplace. After that… well, that's when things got interesting.
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Is the man who blows up an airplane and kills dozens of civilians a murderous terrorist... or a valiant freedom fighter? Is the man who tries to stop the bomber a threat to national security... or a hero of the people? It depends. What Lies Across the Water is a narrative nonfiction thriller. About terrorists who blow up airplanes and try to overthrow governments. About intelligence agents who try to stop them. The twist is that these terrorists are...
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