From the Bookshelf of Calling All Canadians!!…

[close] This literary thriller is geographically set in Vancouver, Kandahar Province, Canadian Forces Base Trenton and on southern Ontario's Highway of Heroes. It concerns the irony inherent in the continued use of the poppy as a symbol of military sacrifice in Canada at a time when the country participated in the occupation of a nation which, under Coalition control, became the most lucrative narco-state in world history.

Its protagonist is a retired Vancouver Police drug unit detective and father of two adult sons, a soldier who patrols opium fields in Afghanistan and a heroin addict on the streets of Vancouver's crime-ridden Downtown Eastside.