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RETRIBUTION

  ISBN 0-9685152-1-5 paper 368 pages


By Best-selling author:

TERENCE MUNSEY.


SYNOPSIS

Monika Queller's latest murder-mystery whodunit, Retribution, unfolds in the politically charged streets and legislatures of Ottawa and Quebec City. Craig Jeneau, an RCMP officer, uncovers a disturbing international plot. His wariness of the local authorities leads him to secretly contact Monika's fiance, James Anstey, who is a CIA agent based in Los Angeles. They meet in Ottawa at the Empire Grille but before they can follow up on their hunches, they are ambushed on the street behind the bar and shot. Craig is mortally wounded and James is left barely clinging to life. Monika rushes from Los Angeles to James' Ottawa hospital bed, where she discovers a secret that leads her to Quebec City. But is she prepared for what she finds?

Monika Queller is notified of James' condition by Detective Jack Callot of the Ottawa police who picks her up at the Ottawa airport. Unaware they are being followed, he drops her at the Ottawa Civic hospital. Jeneau found a list that has the potential to expose the Canadian International Institute, C2, a front for a covert CIA operation to create political and economic instability in Canada by infiltrating Quebec politics and promoting French Canadian separatism.

After spending some time with James, Monika goes to her hotel, where she is given an envelope by the front desk clerk. When she returns to the hospital she opens the envelope to find an encrypted message.

Having seen her with the envelope, Monika's C2 tail follows her to the hospital where he drugs and abducts her, and then takes her to his superiors at the C2 office near the parliament buildings. Detective Callot is murdered and Monika is kept blindfolded while she is interrogated at C2. She is given forty-eight hours to find and return the list, which contains the names of C2's Quebec-based operatives, or she and James will be killed.

Monika's unknown abductors return her to the hospital where she begins to decipher the coded message. She finally determines that the encrypted message reveals that the list is hidden in a room at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Without telling anyone, she leaves for Quebec City hoping to retrieve the list and save herself and James within the time limit. Monika is followed by a C2 and a CSIS, Canadian Security and Information Service, agent (who has been keeping tabs on her and the C2 operative since Craig Jeneau's murder).

As she arrives in Quebec City, Monika realizes she is being tailed by C2's operative and successfully loses him. At the Chateau Frontenac, she decides to collect her thoughts and wait for check-in time at the hotel bar. In the bar, the bartender hands her a note that tells her she must go to the Basilique Notre-Dame if she values her life.

Monika goes in search of the basilica and enters the confessional where she meets Francois Jolliet, the CSIS agent. Jolliet tells her everything he knows and asks for her help in finding the list. Although Monika is not sure if she can trust him, she agrees.

Monika returns to the hotel, checks into her room and searches until she finds the list, only to be confronted by her C2 tail. Just when she thinks all is lost, she discovers her tail is responsible for leaking the list to Craig Jeneau and is willing to help her. They devise a successful plan, along with Francois Jolliet, to capture the head of C2 and put an end to his operation.

Monika's retribution is complete, but it is hollow since she discovers, upon her return to the hospital in Ottawa, that James has taken a turn for the worst and lies at death's door.




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