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Award-winning author of An Accidental Villain
Internationally acclaimed author Linden MacIntyre discusses his latest book with Dana Hansen, editor-in-chief of Hamilton Review of Books.
MacIntyre's An Accidental Villain: A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile, is an engrossing, page-turning exploration of the little-known life of Sir Hugh Tudor.
Appointed by his friend Winston Churchill to lead the police in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, Tudor met civil strife and domestic terrorism with indiscriminate state-sanctioned murder—changing the course of Irish history.
After distinguishing himself on the battlefields of the First World War, Tudor was put in charge of the fight against an enemy determined to resist British colonial authority to the death. And soon Tudor was directing a police force waging a brutal campaign against rebel "terrorists," one he was determined to win at all costs—including utilizing police death squads and inflicting brutal reprisals against IRA members and supporters and Sinn Féin politicians.
Linden MacIntyre spent four years tracking Tudor through archives, contemporaries’ diaries and letters, and the body count of that Irish war. In An Accidental Villain, he delivers a consequential and fascinating account of how events can bring a man to the point where he acts against his own training, principles, and inclination in the service of a cause—and ends up on a long journey toward personal oblivion.
A Different Drummer Books will be on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
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A multi-award-winning and bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction works, Linden MacIntyre was a broadcast journalist whose distinguished career included twenty-four years as co-host of The Fifth Estate. He has won ten Gemini awards for his work. His novel, The Bishop's Man, was a #1 national bestseller and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, among other honours. MacIntyre was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and grew up in Port Hastings, Cape Breton.
Dana Hansen teaches in the English department at Humber College and is the editor-in-chief of the online literary journal, Hamilton Review of Books. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Literary Review of Canada, Quill & Quire, The Toronto Review of Books, The Winnipeg Review, The Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a book of essays.
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