Synopsis

A Matter of Family

Jefferson Dawes is a forensic accountant hired by PanGlobal Inc. who suspect they may be the object of an attempted hostile takeover. Dawes not only discovers that PanGlobal's concern is real, but the most likely perpetrator is the Russian mafia. Meanwhile, his son, Jonathan, faces possible expulsion from Queen's University for scandalous behaviour. Is Jonathan really our son Dawes is beginning to wonder? Or was there some horrible mixup at the time of his birth nineteen years earlier? Then Jonathan is kidnaped. The kidnapper's demand? Back off on the PanGlobal investigation if he wants his son returned alive. Believing that going to the police could jeopardize his son's life, Dawes decides to rely on his own considerable investigative skills to handle the matter. Eventually he learns some disturbing things about Jonathan and one of his kidnappers. And Dawes is plagued by yet another problem –  a self-imposed one that threatens to unravel his whole life. He is cheating on his wife.

The book may be purchased for $19.95 from BAICO Publishing, Ottawa Ont. 613-829-5141, baico@bellnet.ca or Pearald Books, Alliston. Ont. 905-729-0786, datkin@cyberus.ca. .

The Author

After serving with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canada Customs & Excise (the forerunner to the Canada Revenue Agency) Don Atkinson formed his own security consulting business. One of his contracts brought him back to work with the government as a member of its task force on counter-terrorism. In the mid_1970s Atkinson began writing short stories and media articles and in 1995 he made an impressive debut with his first novel, Nations Within, published in Ottawa by Centurion Publishing & Marketing. In 1997 one of his stories, "Rapture," was included in Winning Shorts, an anthology published by General Store Publishing House. Atkinson’s second novel, Haudenosaunnee, was published in 2001 by Trafford Publishing of Victoria. The author’s third novel, A Matter of Family, and a collection of short stories titled Rapture, were published in December, 2004 and May, 2007 respectively, by BAICO Publishing, Ottawa, Ont.. The author lives in Alliston, Ontario with his wife, an accomplished artist.

Don Atkinson is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada and the Ottawa Independent Writers.