Claude Bouchard Books
Crime Thrillers and other Stuff...
(#7) Femme Fatale - Less than two years earlier, Leslie Robb, an accountant in her late
twenties working for the Imperial National Bank, had seen her
life-partner and co-worker, Gina, shot to death during a bank heist
subsequently foiled in part by Chris Barry, millionaire and clandestine
operative of the government's 'Discreet Activities'.
Taken as a
hostage along with Chris by the remaining robbers onto a helicopter
secretly piloted by two 'DA' operatives, including 'DA' head, Jonathan
Addley, Leslie had played an integral role in helping bring the
offenders down. As a result, thanks to her sang froid, sense of moral
justice and martial arts affinities, Leslie left the world of finance to
fight crime as a member of the 'DA' team.
Now, Leslie has a new
partner in life, Dominique Petit, a Canadian/French dual citizen who
suggests Leslie visit Paris with her while she is in the City of Lights
on business. Less than twenty-four hours after Leslie arrives, Dominique
and her sister, Corinne, disappear, turning Leslie's vacation into her
own business trip of justice and revenge...
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(# 6) Discreet Activities - As a result of information gathered via electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Canada, a budding terrorist organization, the Army for Islam or AFI, is suspected of planning an attack, its target possibly NYC, Burlington, Vermont or even Canada's famed Montreal.
When four foreign students from Pakistan with known ties to the AFI's Montreal cell arrive in the area on New Year?s Eve, Discreet Activities? head, Jonathan Addley, along with Chris Barry and other DA consultants are more than willing to take on the additional workload.
After two of the DA team members die violently in an AFI related suicide-bombing, the job becomes getting revenge on those responsible for this Holy War?
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ASYLUM - As Managing Director of the Montreal Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Doctor Matthew Russell has always put his professional responsibilities ahead of all else. That is, until he one day realizes he is losing his wife, Cassidy, and his two children, Stuart and Jennifer.
With only his family in mind, Russell takes an adventure-filled, impromptu vacation of indefinite duration, leaving all else behind and stopping at nothing to show how much he cares for his loved ones in an effort to win them back. But, will he succeed? Or, will it prove to be all too late in the end?
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(# 5) 6 Hours 42 Minutes - Though most of them dabbled in a variety of criminal activities, they weren't experienced in this particular field and had never been involved in a job like this before. However, with proper planning, careful organization and the inside information available to them, they were certain that this bank heist would be a piece of cake. Ten minutes, in and out, was all it would take and they'd be sharing 2.5 million dollars. Nothing could go wrong as they had thought of everything... How could they possibly know that a new member of the board was visiting the bank that morning? How could they know that the new board member was Chris Barry?
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(# 4) The Homeless Killer - Ten years later, Captain Dave McCall and multi-millionaire, turned government operative, Chris Barry join forces with Jonathan Addley, head of the clandestine 'Discreet Activities' in a race to capture 'Allan', a serial killer who has taken it upon himself to permanently rid the city of all variety of street people.
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(# 3) Mind Games - A string of sex slayings plagues Montreal and has Captain Dave McCall and his Special Homicide Task Force in a frustrated frenzy as they try to bring an end to the vicious butchery. Assisted officially by the noted psychiatrist, Doctor Samuel Bowman and unofficially by his close friend, computer genius and multi-millionaire, Chris Barry, Captain McCall works his way closer and closer to the truth, unaware that they are heading deeper into the core of deadly Mind Games.
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(# 2) The Consultant The friendly takeover of CSS Inc. leaves computer executive Chris Barry unemployed, very wealthy and pleased with the situation. But the hiatus is short-lived... As a result of his involvement in the recent Vigilante investigation, Barry is approached by Jonathan Addley and invited to join Discreet Activities, a government agency of the clandestine variety. Accepting, he promptly takes on his first assignment under the guise of an IT consultant, to investigate possible links between a local import business and the murder of its MIS director. As he discovers the firm is being used to import narcotics, his cover is blown and things get personal, spurring him to show that murderers, drug lords, biker gangs and kidnappers are no match for... The Consultant
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(# 1) Vigilante - Summer of 96 in Montreal and a killer known as the Vigilante is on a spree, his victims, those who engage in criminal activities. Following 16 murders in 6 months, Lieutenant Dave McCall, head of Montreal's Special Homicide Task Force is without clue or lead until an electronic message is received from the assassin himself. Failure in tracing the origin of the email leads McCall to request the assistance of CSS Inc., a security firm specializing in computer and communication networks and headed by EVP and COO, Chris Barry. As murders and emails continue, the two men join forces to bring the killer to justice. But whose justice will prevail? Theirs, or the Vigilante's?
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Duo # 1 - Vigilante/The Consultant contains the first two novels above in one volume.
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Duo # 2 - Mind Games/The Homeless Killer contains the third and fourth novels above in one volume.
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