Fog

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Baraka Books, 2019 - Fiction - 236 pages
A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by a missile from a drone. His death opens up wounds and discussions that are not in the public domain. These two seemingly disparate events form the backbone of a compelling contemporary "ideas thriller," set in Montreal's Main district and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar.

Past values, local history, neighborhood myths and intense psychosexual vectors are suddenly on a collision course with the current international context of wars, migration, exile, and terror. In the backdrop is the cold case of the airplane sabotage that occurred over a decade ago. Was the plane crash hushed-up? Why?

Three friends from Montreal's Plateau and Mile End districts manage to de-freeze the cold case, burn up the fog, and hell breaks loose, not only in their personal lives, but in their own affiliations.

About the author (2019)

Rana Bose is an author, playwright, poet, and dramaturge, with over thirty years of involvement in writing, theatre and production work on stage. Fog is Bose's third novel. He has written and staged eleven plays, ten of which have been performed in Montreal, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Guelph, Chicago and India. He has written over published 100 articles, reviews, short stories and critical essays. His works have been broadcast and reviewed on CBC, as well as in the Montreal Gazette, the Globe and Mail, Montreal Serai and the Ottawa Citizen. He is the founding editor of Montreal Serai. Rana Bose was born and raised in Kolkata (Calcutta), he completed his engineering studies at George Washington University, and has lived in Montreal since the 1970s.

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