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The Tar Sands Diplomat: A Novel of the Canadian Foreign Service
The Tar Sands Diplomat: A Novel of the Canadian Foreign Service
The Tar Sands Diplomat: A Novel of the Canadian Foreign Service
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The Russians have a plan to kill Canadian oil exports. And Canada has a diplomat clueless enough to stop them.

Macgregor is on a dream posting to Brussels, until a red-haired Russian prostitute dramatically murders the Canadian Missions star diplomat and plunges Macgregor into a world of spooks, Russian oligarchs and eco-hacktivists.

After Ottawa sends the G-7s least competent security team to Brussels to investigate, Macgregor realizes thatfor the first time in his careerhe actually has to do something. Fortunately he has something no one else does: Ottawas biggest collection of spy novels.

Unable to penetrate the digital defenses of the opposition, or even operate his own Blackberry, Macgregor falls back on spy-novel classics: disguises, midnight burglaries and hidden microphones. To his surprise, they lead him towards the truth. Unfortunately for Macgregor, they also lead him towards a well-connected Canadian oil company and the Prime Ministers Office back in Ottawa.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateApr 5, 2016
ISBN9781491792650
The Tar Sands Diplomat: A Novel of the Canadian Foreign Service
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Keith Halliday

Keith Halliday was formerly the twelfth most senior diplomat at the Canadian Mission to the European Union in Brussels. After rocketing to the rank of Second Secretary, he retired from the Foreign Service. He started Tar Sands Diplomat while on a chemotherapy-induced vacation from his day job.

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