The Roma Plot

A Max O'Brien Mystery

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Pub Date Nov 21 2017 | Archive Date Sep 30 2017
Dundurn | Dundurn Press
General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

Max O’Brien is in a race against time … and someone else’s past is catching up with him.

Max O’Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him in a bind. So when he hears that his old friend Kevin Dandurand is a wanted man over a seemingly racially motivated killing spree, he heads to Bucharest to try to make sense of what looks like an impossible situation.

The buried truths he uncovers reach back to the Second World War, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and an entanglement between a Roma man and a German woman whose echoes pursue O’Brien and Dandurand into the present day. But if they can’t escape the long shadows of the past, the two will find their present cut all too short.

Max O’Brien is in a race against time … and someone else’s past is catching up with him.

Max O’Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him in a bind. So when he...
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A Note From the Publisher

Screenwriter Mario Bolduc has written three novels featuring Max O’Brien, starting with The Kashmir Trap. Originally published in French, The Roma Plot, the second book of the series, won an Arthur Ellis Award in 2008. Mario lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Screenwriter Mario Bolduc has written three novels featuring Max O’Brien, starting with The Kashmir Trap. Originally published in French, The Roma Plot, the second book of the series, won an Arthur...

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Advance Praise

"The book will appeal to readers who like to have their history lessons wrapped in a good yarn." -Publishers Weekly

"The book will appeal to readers who like to have their history lessons wrapped in a good yarn." -Publishers Weekly

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ISBN 9781459736061
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 472

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