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Les Gestionnaires de l'Apocalypse

When contempt for politics spreads and trust in institutions evaporates. When our sense of belonging dissolves and self-interest becomes the only motivation. When the hidden economy flourishes and cunning is the cardinal virtue. Then a society is ready to fall into the hands of all the mafias. It is an inevitable process. We are going to civilize that process. Rationalize it. We have an opportunity to amass wealth that is unprecedented in the history of humanity. We are going to manage the apocalypse. When contempt for politics spreads and trust in institutions evaporates. When our sense of belonging dissolves and self-interest becomes the only motivation. When the hidden economy flourishes and cunning is the cardinal virtue. Then a society is ready to fall into the hands of all the mafias. It is an inevitable process. We are going to civilize that process. Rationalize it. We have an opportunity to amass wealth that is unprecedented in the history of humanity. We are going to manage the apocalypse. Leonidas Fogg

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne

Jean-Jacques Pelletier La Chair disparue (The Vanishing Flesh) 656 pages, $16.95

Because he has dismantled the Body Store, a Thai network of organ trafficking, Paul Hurtubise has been punished horribly in retaliation : his children have been emptied of their organs and all his friends and loved ones are threatened with death. Two years later, suffering from multiple personality syndrome, Hurtubise, helped by the Institute, hides under the name of John Hurt in the Quebec City region, where he is trying to forget the past. But he can't: another network of organ extractors roams the city streets, a reporter offers his heart to a woman friend - in a cooler, and a mad artist begins to sculpt human flesh... Have the directors of the Body Store found Hurtubise's trail ? F, the Institute's director, believes instead that these events prove that what she feared the most has begun : the various mafias have joined forces in an international organization, and if no one does something to stop them, they are poised to take control of the whole planet !

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne	Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne
Jean-Jacques Pelletier L'Argent du monde -1 (The World's Money-1, The Managers of the Apocalypse 2) 623 pages, $16.95	Jean-Jacques Pelletier L'Argent du monde -2 (The World's Money-2, The Managers of the Apocalypse 2) 593 pages, $16.95
For Inspector Théberge, it all begins with the discovery of a club dancer's completely bloodless body in the car of a company manager. Sometime later, the world of high finance in Montreal is shaken by the demise of several managers - suspicious death, suicide, murder - and by the disappearance of 750 million dollars from the coffers of the Quebec government pension fund. Is there a link between those events, the Inspector wonders. And who has an interest in making people believe a vampire is lurking in the streets of Montreal ? For F, the Institute's director, everything points to one explanation : the Consortium is trying to set up a colossal money laundering machine in Quebec. Patiently, with Blunt's help, and the help of Hurt, the Joneses and Chamane, a young hacker, she continues to analyze and investigate. In order to once again block the Consortium, which seems to have limitless means and connections, the Institute will have to take up into a new fight, a very unequal one. The World's Money : a mind-blowing journey into the world of financial fraud and the manipulation of individuals.

Prix 2004 du Roman policier de Saint-Pacôme
(Meilleur polar québécois) (Best Quebec crime novel)

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne	Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne
Jean-Jacques Pelletier Le Bien des autres -1 (The Good of Others-1, The Managers of Apocalypse 3) 807 pages, $19.95	Jean-Jacques Pelletier Le Bien des autres -2 (The Good of Others-2, The Managers of Apocalypse 3) 651 pages, $16.95
While in the province of Quebec, the Church of Universal Reconciliation is secretly recruiting influential people, the Democratic Progressive Liberal Alliance, a new political party in Ottawa, is trying to take power on a platform of national unity and security. In Quebec, however, the electoral campaign is marred by unprecedented levels of linguistic and ethnic violence, which frightens the population and is grist to the mill for the DPLA. With his Special Intervention Unit, Chief Inspector Théberge is investigating the growing number of acts of vandalism and bombings in Montreal and the rest of the province. But how can he fight against what looks like a generalized breakdown - aggravated by a media feeding frenzy - of Quebec society and its democratic institutions ? With the reluctant collaboration of Pascale Devereaux, a TV reporter, Théberge tries to uncover what is behind this headlong collapse of the social order. His task is made all the more difficult because he can no longer count on the resources of the Institute : the Consortium has decided to get rid of F once and for all after the defeat recounted in L'Argent du monde (The Money of the World).	After a lull, the attacks flare up again, even more violent than before. The GANG organization rises from the ashes, new radical groups appear and the game of retaliation and counter-retaliation grows more intense. At the same time, Unité-Québec openly calls for the partition of the province and The Partitionist, in an editorial, demands that Ottawa protect minorities in Quebec. Reginald Sinclair, the DPLA leader who has just became Prime Minister, is working intently to rid the country of the nationalist-secessionist cancer while organizing at his country house a Friendship Summit to be attended by the world's leading heads of government. What strategic global interests are behind the actions of the DPLA, and what fate does its leader have in mind for the province of Quebec, which is on the verge of civil war ? Will Chief Inspector Théberge, with the help of the Institute's survivors, be able to stop this new spiral of violence and unmask the conspiracy that fuels it ? Could this be a scheme to destroy Quebec ? In the streets of Montreal, but also in Paris, New York, Drummondville and London, as well as in Xaviera Heldreth's castle in Bavaria, the final acts of this drama will be played out.
Le Bien des autres (The Good of Others), an extremely disturbing thriller with themes of media control, manipulation of the mob and the hijacking of democratic institutions.