Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history…Thirty years after the October Crisis, Sam Nihilo, a freelance writer whose career is in a slump, is drawn to the conspiracy theories that have proliferated in the wake of the events. While investigating the death of one of the FLQ hostages, Nihilo sees his life consumed by