Volume I
After thwarting an anthrax attack, RCMP Special Agent Kristen Vale is tasked with investigating the deaths of high school students afflicted with a novel form of pulmonary plague. Meanwhile, historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix receives an email that leads him to a mysterious symbol and the corpse of a Canadian Parliament senator. United by their quests, Kristen and Quentin will do everything to win a breathtaking race against time, taking them from Ottawa to Niagara, and putting them on the path of the Cainites, an ancient sect, enemies of the Templars, who seek the end of humanity as we know it.
Volume II
Although they have escaped infernal traps in the labyrinths 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 will not make it easy for them. While their investigation leads them further into the past and into Montreal's hidden underground, Kristen's beloved nephew, Grady, whose health is very concerning, perceives strange phenomena that no one else seems to understand.
Volume III
As ancient volcanoes erupt worldwide and a global catastrophe threatens all of humanity, Special Agent Kristen Vale and her partner, historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix, embark on a mission to find the only people who can prevent these cataclysms, as science is powerless against the scale of the 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 coming days, on Good Friday, by a Cain-worshipping sect that practices human sacrifice.
Volume IV
Very little time remains on the countdown… While Special Agent Kristen Vale tries to escape the Cainites in Montserrat, historian and cryptologist Quentin DeFoix teams up with his ex-girlfriend, a prominent and unscrupulous archaeologist, to decipher the occult symbols of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia. These symbols could lead them to the god-children, especially Grady, Kristen's nephew, who is fated to die on the cross at the end of this holy week. He alone holds the key that connects these children who have the power to stop the plagues afflicting humanity.
Tutti Footsie
A formidable serial killer moves from Seattle to Baltimore, eventually reaching Vermont, leaving behind mutilated bodies. He pursues a gold-medalist diver and a ten-year-old world championship hopeful into the hiking trails of the Stowe mountains. They will do everything to escape the clutches of the psychopath tracking them, while a former FBI profiler seeks to unmask him.
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The Cyclops
Kirk Crossing, Vermont: a former police officer and his sheriff daughter investigate the deaths of babies that occurred ten years ago—babies whose paternity was never claimed. One evening, the young deputy sheriff abruptly wakes up at the scene of a homicide in a hotel, with no memory of the crime. The investigation then takes an unexpected turn: she must prove her innocence! But finding clues in an ice hotel, in the midst of a carnival, is no easy task, especially as a series of crimes become closely intertwined during the festivities and a mysterious cyclops discreetly targets babies.
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The Rituals of the Absolute
To give it credence, Grandbois transposes the Desire that haunts his dreams onto the plane of an initiation, an inner progress drawn from the secret science of mystics, which he then interrogates.
It's hardly surprising that for someone who claims to have read widely and everything, the poems carve out a carnal hymn from the very essence of the great teachings of Western art and thought, spanning from ancient speculative philosophy to surrealist painting and literature, and encompassing alchemy, romantic illuminism, and the Apollonian and Dionysian myths.
Publisher: David
Review by Réjean Robidoux on ‘Les Rituels de l’Absolu’:
« A masterful, beautifully written essay. Its quality irrefutably establishes the poet's universal greatness. But one must also note, on the part of the exegete, both the flair for intelligence (intus legere) and the almost immeasurable erudition. »
Réjean Robidoux
« Of the author, Yves Laliberté, a specialist in Grandbois's poetry, it is stated on the back cover of *Rituels de l'absolu. Essai sur la poésie d'Alain Grandbois*, that he possesses "almost immeasurable erudition" – a comment likely to be shared by all who consult his demanding and dense study. Written in a scholarly style – evidenced by expressions such as "artialisation du cosmos," "Platonic entelechy," "neptunism," "hylogeny," "orogenesis," and "deductive axiomatic" – and never shying away from complex and abstract concepts, the work aims to shed light on an aspect of Alain Grandbois's writing that Laliberté believes is little known: the "breadth of the writer's readings" and "their importance in his poetic inspiration." Indeed, one of the analyst's premises is that Alain Grandbois's "mystical lyricism" draws directly from the "archetypal images" developed by the countless authors he studied, which he then reappropriates to express his conception of the "sensible world." »
[...]There is no doubt that this dense and brilliant study will greatly enrich Grandboisian criticism, as it is comprehensive and exceptionally well-documented.
Noêble Racine, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, Winter 2008, pp. 583-585.