Allan Smith

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Every family has a secret held close. This family has one, kept from the world for more than a century. Now it is time for that secret to be revealed, for the story to be told. It's a story which takes the reader from Australia in the 21st Century to London in the 19th - to the world of Queen Victoria, Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. It's a story ranging over the lowest of society to the highest in the land, from genteel suburban respectability to crime and criminals of the worst kind. And the thread which connects everything is the secret, the astounding secret buried for so long by the family now determined to set it free.

Superintendent Jack Sargent is a Western Australian Police detective, and one of the good guys. But not everybody thinks so. Someone has him in their murderous sights, and seemingly will stop at nothing to achieve their end. Sargent is dragged into a life-and-death struggle against an adversary he can't identify, and who the WA Police can't catch. His disabled son, Daniel, is caught up in the mayhem. And so is Samuel Pepys, dead since 1703, but nonetheless a key player in the drama engulfing Sargent. The killer's motives are obscure, his identity is unknown, and the advance 'clues' he provides to Sargent before each killing serve only to taunt and frustrate. People are going to die. The only unknowns are who, and how many.

Perth, Western Australia, is the world's most isolated capital city. But even in sleepy Perth a serial killer is at work, striking seemingly at will and with impunity. Detective Superintendent Jack Sargent is gradually drawn further and further into the nightmare of successive murders. The killer's ultimate objective soon becomes shockingly clear. And it becomes clear that Sargent and the killer are linked by a 17thC English diarist, Samuel Pepys. The key to the unfolding mayhem is Pepys' diary entries more than three centuries earlier. Sargent can't extricate himself from the killer's inexorable progress, nor can he keep his disabled son from being dragged along with him. The killer is always one step ahead of Sargent and his team of WA Police, taunting Sargent, mocking the inability of the police to prevent further murders. The outcome seems inevitable. Sargent and his son are in the killer's sights.

Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challenged Canada's cultural independence and asks whether Canada has maintained its own identity.

Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challenged Canada's cultural independence and asks whether Canada has maintained its own identity.