Volume I
After foiling an anthrax attack, RCMP Special Constable Kristen Vale is tasked with investigating the deaths of college students suffering from an unprecedented form of pneumonic plague. Meanwhile, historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix receives an e-mail that leads him on the trail of a mysterious sign and the corpse of a Canadian senator. United by their quests, Kristen and Quentin will do anything to win a breathtaking race against time that will take them from Ottawa to Niagara, putting them on the path of the Cainites, an age-old sect, enemies of the Knights Templar, who seek the end of humanity as we know it.
A detective, political and religious thriller, The Secret of God weaves together the founding of Montreal, the visit to Canada of novelist Charles Dickens nearly two hundred years ago, the sinking of theEmpress of Ireland off Rimouski in 1914 and the recent discovery of biological weapons in Uzbekistan, all traces of a holy war waged for the possession of a secret that would reveal the true nature of God...
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A native of Gatineau, Yves Laliberté has been a professor of Quebec literature at the University of Ottawa, an essayist, a radio writer and an information officer for the federal government. An avid reader and writer from an early age, and driven by a passion for investigation, he takes us to the four corners of the globe with Le Secret de Dieu, a thrilling saga!
Volume II
Despite having escaped hellish traps in the maze of Ottawa and Niagara Falls, Special Agent Kristen Vale and historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix must continue their mission. Time is running out, and their opponents won't let them off easy. As their investigation takes them deeper and deeper into the past and into Montreal's hidden underground, Kristen's beloved nephew Grady, whose condition is very worrying, perceives strange phenomena that no one else seems to understand.
A detective, political and religious thriller, The Secret of God weaves together the founding of Montreal, the visit to Canada of novelist Charles Dickens nearly two hundred years ago, the sinking of theEmpress of Ireland off Rimouski in 1914 and the recent discovery of biological weapons in Uzbekistan, all traces of a holy war waged for the possession of a secret that would reveal the true nature of God...
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A native of Gatineau, Yves Laliberté has been a professor of Quebec literature at the University of Ottawa, an essayist, a radio writer and an information officer for the federal government. An avid reader and writer from an early age, and driven by a passion for investigation, he takes us to the four corners of the globe with Le Secret de Dieu, a thrilling saga!
Volume III
As ancient volcanoes erupt everywhere and a global catastrophe threatens all humanity, Special Agent Kristen Vale and her fellow historian and cryptologist, Quentin DeFoix, are launched on a mission to find the only people who can prevent cataclysms, science being powerless in the face of the sheer scale of geological phenomena. Kristen's own nephew is one of these gifted god-children, but he is kidnapped and condemned to die on a cross in the following days, on Good Friday, by a Cain-worshipping sect practicing human sacrifice.
From Japan to the Vatican, from the basements of the Bell Centre in Montreal to the Montserrat monastery visited by Himmler shortly after the Spanish Civil War, from Europe's largest spa in Andorra to the temples buried beneath the Egyptian desert and the sacred cenotes of the Yucatán Mayans, The Secret of God takes us on a thrilling journey where religious terrorism meets corporate ambitions, where enemies can hide unexpected allies, and where the true nature of God may be closer than we think.
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A native of Gatineau, Yves Laliberté has been a professor of Quebec literature at the University of Ottawa, an essayist, a radio writer and an information officer for the federal government. An avid reader and writer from an early age, and driven by a passion for investigation, he takes us to the four corners of the globe with Le Secret de Dieu, a thrilling saga!
Volume IV
Time is running out on the countdown... While Special Agent Kirsten Vale tries to escape the Cainites in Montserrat, historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix teams up with his ex-girlfriend, an eminent and unscrupulous archaeologist, to decipher the occult symbols in Barcelona's Sagrada Familia that may put them on the trail of the god-children, especially Kristen's nephew Grady, who is due to die on the cross at the end of this holy week. He alone holds the key to linking these children, who have the power to stop the plagues that plague mankind.
From Japan to the Vatican, from the basements of the Bell Centre in Montreal to the Montserrat monastery visited by Himmler shortly after the Spanish Civil War, from Europe's largest spa in Andorra to the temples buried beneath the Egyptian desert and the sacred cenotes of the Yucatán Mayans, The Secret of God takes us on a thrilling journey where religious terrorism meets corporate ambitions, where enemies can hide unexpected allies, and where the true nature of God may be closer than we think.
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A native of Gatineau, Yves Laliberté has been a professor of Quebec literature at the University of Ottawa, an essayist, a radio writer and an information officer for the federal government. An avid reader and writer from an early age, and driven by a passion for investigation, he takes us to the four corners of the globe with Le Secret de Dieu, a thrilling saga!
Tutti Footsie
A fearsome serial killer travels from Seattle to Baltimore, ending up in Vermont, leaving a trail of corpses with mutilated feet in his wake. He pursues a gold-medal-winning diver and a ten-year-old World Championship hopeful into the hiking trails of the Stowe Mountains. They'll do anything to escape the clutches of the psychopath stalking them, while a former FBI profiler tries to unmask him.
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The Cyclops
Kirk Crossing, Vermont: a former policeman and his sheriff daughter investigate the death of babies ten years ago. Babies whose paternity no one has ever claimed. One night, the young deputy sheriff wakes up on the scene of a homicide in a hotel. She has no memory of the crime. The investigation then takes an unexpected turn: she must prove her innocence! But it's no easy task to find clues in an ice hotel in the middle of a carnival, when a series of crimes are intertwined during the festivities and a mysterious Cyclops is quietly preying on babies.
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The rituals of the absolute
To give credence to this, Grandbois transposes the Desire that haunts his dreams onto the plane of an initiation, an inner progress wrested from the secret science of the mystics he submits to question.
It's hardly surprising that the poems of a man who claims to have read a great deal of everything should carve a carnal canticle out of the substance of the great teachings of Western art and thought, from the speculative philosophy of Antiquity to Surrealist painting and literature, via alchemy, Romantic enlightenment and Apollonian and Dionysian myths.
Publisher: David
Réjean Robidoux's review of 'Les Rituels de l'Absolu':
"A masterly essay, magnificently written. The quality of the work establishes the poet's universal greatness on an irrefragable basis. But the exegete's flair for intelligence (intus legere) and almost immeasurable erudition are equally noteworthy."
Réjean Robidoux
"The back cover of Rituels de l'absolu. Essai sur la poésie d'Alain Grandbois, that he has an "almost immeasurable erudition" - a comment that will probably be shared by all those who consult his demanding, dense study. Written in a scholarly style - expressions such as "artialization of the cosmos", "Platonic entelechy", "neptunism", "hylogeny", "orogenesis" and "deductive axiomatics" bear witness to this - and never shying away from conceptual complexity and abstraction, According to Laliberté, the book sheds light on a little-known aspect of Alain Grandbois's writing: "the scope of [his] readings" and "their importance in his poetic inspiration". Indeed, one of the analyst's premises is that Alain Grandbois's "mystical lyricism" draws on the "archetypal images" developed by the countless authors he has read, which he appropriates to translate his conception of the "sensible world".
[...] There is no doubt that this dense and brilliant study will greatly enrich Grandboisian criticism, as it proves to be thorough and highly documented.
Noële Racine, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, Winter 2008, pp. 583-585.