The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly - Softcover

Harris, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 077103959X ISBN 13: 9780771039591

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1996

Synopsis

The story of Patrick Kelly – former RCMP undercover drug agent, suspected arsonist and fraud artist, and convicted wife murderer – is one of the most bizarre in the annals of Canadian crime, not least because Kelly maintains that his wife’s fatal plunge from their luxury condo was an accident. With The Judas Kiss Michael Harris, Canada’s top true crime writer, has written yet another rattling good page-turner about crime and Canadian justice.

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About the Author

One of Canada’s top investigative writers, Michael Harris was winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best true crime book for The Prodigal Husband: The Tragedy of Helmuth and Hannah Buxbaum. Formerly the publisher of the Sunday Express in St. John’s and later the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs for the Newfoundland Broadcasting Corporation, Harris has also been Queen’s Park correspondent for the National Post, and a national affairs columnist for the Sun News Service. Today, he host’s his own radio program, “Michael Harris Live,” on CFRA in Ottawa.

Harris’s previous books consist of the award-winners Justice Denied: The Law versus Donald Marshall (1986), Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel (1990), Rare Ambition: The Crosbies of Newfoundland (1992), The Prodigal Husband (1994). The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly (1995), was made into a television movie starring Paul Gross, and Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery (1998) was a national bestseller. To date, his work has sparked four royal commissions of inquiry. He lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, with his wife and daughter.
From the Hardcover edition.

Review

“Reading this book is like watching a top-rated cop show mixed with a popular soap opera....Michael Harris is synonymous with rollicking good investigative reads.”
–Calgary Herald

“...intelligent, compassionate, and above all, fair.”
–Chronicle Herald/Mail Star

“Harris offers a primer on RCMP undercover work and the subtleties of prosecuting a murder case. In both instances he shows how the line between right and wrong, truth and justice, is arbitrary – something authorities hopscotch across to suit their needs.”
–Quill & Quire

“Harris [is] a superb storyteller and a Sherlock Holmes-style researcher.”
–Vancouver Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 077103959X
• ISBN 13: 9780771039591
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 472