Böcker av Mark Lisac

Includes author-curated discussion questions!Mark Lisac's Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that "unnamed capital city east of the Rockies," where the Brutalist architecture of the downtown core reflects the body politic laid bare.When a cantankerous ex-government photographer seeks ownership of his prints, the powers-that-be are determined to prevent the release of certain sensitive photos. Set in the 1990s, this political thriller delves into questions of identity and memory, established power and its fears and secrets, old stock versus newcomers, belonging and alienation.Image Decay investigates the intricacies of political manipulation, personal anxieties, and how history must be seen to be confronted.

In a small city somewhere in an oil-rich Canadian province just east of the Rockies, a political scandal has erupted: an aging cabinet minister has struck and killed a member of his local constituency executive with his half-ton truck, in broad daylight. But the premier suspects that there is more to this "accident" than meets the eye -- and he wants to know the real reasons behind it before the media or his political rivals do. Enter the premier's old friend Harry Asher -- lawyer, former hockey star, self-styled intellectual, and recent divorcé -- who is hired to dig into the incident. And it is not long before Asher's investigation threatens to expose a chain of corruption that implicates many of the province's most powerful citizens -- including the province's legendary now-senile premier -- as well as its most cherished founding myths. Mark Lisac (author of "Alberta Politics Uncovered" and "The Klein Revolution") draws upon his decades of experience as a reporter at Alberta's provincial legislature to craft an absorbing debut novel -- part political thriller, part fable -- that opens up timeless themes of friendship, love, the inescapability of grief, the weight of history, and the nature of truth.