Autumn, 1970: Hostage-taking separatists in Quebec abduct a foreign diplomat and a cabinet minister and threaten violence across the country. As fear sets in, the government turns to Luc Cadotte, a specialist on international terrorism and veteran of the clandestine struggles in Latin America. <br/> <br/> From the jungles of Colombia to Montreal under siege, former diplomat James Bartleman plots a turbulent thriller based on events he witnessed first-hand. Swerving between fanatical ideologues and crass careerists with bloody hands, Cadotte has to choose sides when they all seem dirty, and put everything on the line in a crisis that puts all that he stands for to the test.
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James Bartleman. Exceptional Circumstances
Cover
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
1: Love and Ambition
2: When Values Differ
3: Unreasonable Expectations
4: Courting Charlotte
5: Why Me?
6: Saint and Devil
7: Heather Sinclair
8: Raid on Sucio
9: The CIA
10: The Workers’ Paradise
11: The Ministry of the Interior
12: The Communist Central Committee
13: The Kidnappings Begin
14: The Torture Directive
15: Return to Bogota
Epilogue
A Conversation with the Author
Acknowledgements
Also by James Bartleman
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For Marie-Jeanne
“Acts of torture can be committed by almost everyone — not just by psychopaths.”
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“No I wouldn’t because the suspension of human rights might be needed someday to safeguard national unity. National security, national unity, and human rights should constitute the proper order of priority.”
“Now let’s take another tack. Assume the Department accepted you as one of its Foreign Service officers, and posted you abroad to a country overseas. Let’s call it country X. Let’s say country X is in the Third World, maybe in one of those former colonies which are just now joining the United Nations as independent countries. What if you received instructions from the Department to do something your conscience told you was wrong? What would you do?”
