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Stephen Kimber launches Traitor’s Game

Date:
Time:
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Location:
University of King's College - KTS Room, 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, NS, B3H 2A1
Link:
https://kingsbookstore.ca/events/6139520261028
Calendar:
Community event, Member-organized event

Returning to the world of his non-fiction account Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War, award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber’s Traitor’s Game is a propulsive, clever, and atmospheric work of noir fiction, and the first in an enthralling, character-driven World War II noir detective mysteries set in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

It is the summer of 1940 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city that has become a bustling strategic port for the war raging in Europe. In a wealthy South End neighbourhood, the daughter of a local Royal Navy commander has been found murdered. Her father, the number-one suspect, and mother are missing. To complicate matters for Police Detective Mick Blackwell—a “shell shocked” veteran of World War I—the Royal Navy has claimed jurisdiction over his investigation.

On the other side of the Atlantic, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has green-lit Operation Fish, an audacious gamble to ship Britain’s entire gold reserves across the U-boat-infested North Atlantic to Halifax to prevent them from falling into Hitler’s hands.

Blackwell must somehow connect the dots from his off-the-books investigation back to Operation Fish, solve more than one murder, and foil a Nazi plot.

Stephen Kimber is an award-winning Canadian journalist, writer, editor, broadcaster, and educator. He is the author of fourteen books, including two novels and twelve nonfiction works. Kimber is a former Director of the School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing at the University of King’s College in Halifax and co-founded the King’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction programs. In 2023, he was named to the Order of Nova Scotia, the province’s highest civilian honour for his “contributions to the life and people of the province through literature, journalism and academia.”

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