Eric Peterson

John MacLachlan Gray

This revised, updated edition of one of Canada's most successful and enduring dramas, Billy Bishop Goes to War, includes the original Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award and Governor General's Award-winning 1982 musical play, plus the 2010 re-working of the script. In this new edition, the World War I flying ace-credited with seventy-two victories and billed as the top ace in the British Empire-appears in his later years, reflecting on his wartime exploits. Cast of two men.

Billy Bishop Goes to War

"A Gift For the Little Master releases the reader into a nightmarish west coast city. By day the city is a crush of traffic -- a place where only bike couriers move freely. At night the city becomes the haunt of criminals and lost souls -- a place frequented by nightcrawling freelance media scanning police channels for saleable stories. Delores is a nightcrawler blessed and cursed with a ruthless curiosity and a perpetually stoned TV crew. Violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her with the next clip -- her only goal until she becomes the target of a phone stalker. Eli is a bike courier gliding between his unknown history and unknowable future, until he finds himself the target of a white 4-Runner with a vicious case of road rage. Slicing a path through the city is a serial killer with a penchant for Nietzsche and a great place to hide. And tracking the trail of the killer is Turner, a vigilante cop with policing skills that would not be out of place in a South American death squad. As the hunt winds its way through the city, Turner finds the investigation manipulated by an unseen hand -- one that appears to have ties with both Eli and Delores. With its echoes of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, "A Gift For the Little Master takes the genre of thriller and thrusts it headlong into the twenty-first century.

A Gift for the Little Master

London, 1852: the world's capital city of crime; a city where murder and hangings are public entertainment, where reporters and balladeers vie with one another to be first to the next grisly, exclusive revelation. Among the panoply of killers awaiting execution is Chokee Bill, whose stranglings have set the capital abuzz. One of the balladeers, Henry Owler, is determined to extract a true confession from the killer. However, Chokee Bill claims he is innocent and that the real Fiend is still on the loose. Owler, enlists the help of one of London's leading investigative journalists, Edmund Whitty of the Falcon, to help him to discover the real murderer before he strikes again. But fate has some other twists in store. The killer is closer than either one expects, close enough to touch in the fog bound streets. Is he a wraith of the imagination? Or is he the nightmare the public have dreamed and now made all too real? Is he The Fiend in Human Form?

John MacLachlan Gray

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