In October 1970, as revolution spread around the world, the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner. As negotiations to free the hostage continued, Québec’s Vice-Premier was kidnapped and murdered. Brian Moore’s documentary novel recreates these events and asks: who were these young revolutionaries, what were their beliefs? Brian Moore was in Montreal to investigate these events as they happened, interviewing those involved (from activists to politicians and police) and exploring the social and political background. In understanding the frustrations and radicalism of a group of Québec separatists, he finds parallels with his own past: “I found them to be young, ex-Catholic, nationalist… It was a mixture I had known back in Ireland.” Brian Moore uses the techniques of fiction to provide insight into a new world, “in the theatre of confrontation, the curtain was going up.”
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Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921. He served with the British Ministry of War Transport during World War Two and emigrated to Canada in 1948 where he became a journalist. His first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, was published in 1955. Moore moved to the USA in 1959 and published 20 internationally acclaimed novels. Brian Moore died in 1999.
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