Invisible Armies

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HarperCollins, Apr 23, 2006 - Fiction - 368 pages

Danielle Leaf thinks she’s helping out a friend—until she isabducted and imprisoned in remote rural India. Her escape is only the beginningof a wild ride. Danielle is swept up in a secret war between anti-corporateactivists and a transnational mining company that is poisoning thousands ofThird World farmers. In a dizzying world of whirlwind romance on the Goa coast,bloody street battles in Paris, shadowy computer hackers and mysteriousbenefactors, the line between right and wrong becomes increasingly blurred.Danielle discovers that both sides of this war hide terrible secrets—and arewilling to kill to protect them.

Award-winning author Jon Evans returns with new heroes and acompulsive, fast-paced story that digs into issues of corporate exploitation andthe extreme edge of antiglobalization activism. Invisible Armies is ColdWar suspense for the modern age, a thriller that looks behind the power ofprotests and the politics of big business, written by a truly internationaltalent.

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Section 2
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Section 3
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JON EVANS, Arthur Ellis Award–winning author of Dark Places and Blood Price, grew up in Waterloo and is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. In breaks between jobs across North America and Europe, he travels the world, searching for the perfect settings for his fiction. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario. Visit his website at www.jonevans.ca.

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