The Flagship of Eternal Stupidity

by David J. MacKinnon

Jake Chandler has it an honours history degree from the Sorbonne, a sexy French girlfriend, and a prosperous future as a litigator at an international law firm. There's just one the firm defends the indefensible - asbestos companies, derelict physicians and corrupt politicians - using every legal trick and subterfuge to ensure the clients walk free while the lives of thousands are ruined. Jake's stubborn refusal to cooperate earns him a pink slip and a one way ticket to the murky bottom of the social order.

286 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

David J. MacKinnon is a Sorbonne graduate in history, a member of two law societies and has translated for the International Criminal Tribunals of Rwanda,the Hague & Yugoslavia. He is co-founder of the Long March to Rome, an indigenous-led mission seeking repeal of the Papal Bulls of Discovery. In earlier days, he worked as oil field roughneck, toilet factory worker, longshoreman and morgue attendant. He has walked the ancient Santiago de Compostela pilgrim's trail and to Chartres several times. A Voluntary Crucifixion, MacKinnon's memoirs, recounts the tale of his adventures and misadventures from a year of living dangerously in post-Tiananmen Hong Kong to surviving tinpot dictatorships in various ports of call in the Indian Ocean and life during the heady days of Quebec separatism. All his writing is derived from experience, and the belief that freedom is not a gift, but something you wrench from the clutch of your oppressors.