Snow Job, William Deverell
Snow Job, William Deverell
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Snow Job
An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

Author: William Deverell

Narrator: Tim Machin

Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/20/2022

Synopsis

“Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp.” –– The Globe and Mail Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo bearing its visiting delegation is blown sky-high in snowy Ottawa. The suspected assassin, Abzal Erzhan, a Bhashyistani revolutionary, disappears. Was he kidnapped, was he murdered, or did he get away scot-free? Enter famed trial lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, dragged from retirement on his idyllic Gulf Island farm. As he prepares to represent Erzhan, he must ponder a hard, ethical question: is the alleged terrorist guilty, or has he been set up to take the fall? Arthur soon finds himself tangled up with wily civil servants, scheming cabinet members, an abrasive Bhashyistani propagandist, and a government spy who stumbles about like a bull in a china shop. Meanwhile, the international pressure mounts as Canadian oil executives are taken hostage while three Canadian female tourists, fearing terrorism, hide out in Bhashyistani’s wintry wilds.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on May 05, 2017

I've been a big fan of William Deverell's crime novels ever since I met him at a Vancouver Library event back in early 2008, and grabbed a copy of APRIL FOOL, which had won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel (the Canadian crime writing award). It took me a little while to settle into Deverell's s......more

Goodreads review by Anna on January 24, 2018

DUNNO: I wanted to like this author and this book, I really did. Praise for Deverell, here in Canada anyway, tends to be breathless. And a spy mystery/thriller set in Ottawa, in the depths of winter, what is there not to love? The multi-layered political intrigue plot is clever and sophisticated, I......more

Goodreads review by Marcy on December 09, 2010

In Ottawa, where Arthur's newly elected Green Party wife is now a member of Parliament, a delegation of Bashystani cabinet ministers are killed in a terrorist attack. The main suspect disappears and Arthur suspects the true story involves big-oil interests and political shenanigans. An intelligence......more

Goodreads review by Milele on February 10, 2011

This book is so Canadian!! It's got Canadian weather, Canadian politics, Canadian cities. I know Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal well enough to recognize them all not just by name but by feel, in Deverell's descriptions. Beyond being deeply Canadian, this book is very hard to categorize, being part h......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on February 08, 2022

Snow Job is my first William Deverell novel. I had the opportunity to listen to an advance audio copy from Netgalley and dove in. I was eager to start it as part of my goal to read more Canadian authors this year, and it hardly gets more Canadian than this book! The descriptions of the weather, poli......more

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