Uprising

... the fictional conditions underlying the uprising in the book so mirror the reality of modern Canada. -- National Post A riveting read, the book posits a series of loosely co-ordinated, but crippling, panic-inducing strikes by native guerrillas on Canada's most vulnerable energy and transportation installations. -- National Post Senator ROMEO DALLAIRE: "We have heard about the Aboriginal Day of Action. Is the internal security risk rising as the youth see themselves more and more disenfranchised? In fact, if they ever coalesced. Could they not bring this country to a standstill?" The Right Honourable PAUL MARTIN: "My answer, and the only one we all have, is we would hope not. -- Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Hard-hitting and regrettably all too believable. -- Jack Granatstein, award-winning military historian, author of Who Killed Canada's Military? Combat-arms' veteran, counter-insurgency expert, counsellor to governments, and leading military scholar-now, Colonel Bland emerges in Uprising as a master thriller-writer who wrenches Canadians from a stale-dated dream world, and answers the inescapable question: what happens in dangerous times when a passive population, narcissistic politicos and uncertain bureaucrats determine the nation's fate? A scintillating read, and devastating warning. -- David Harris, Director, International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.; former Chief of Strategic Planning, Canadian Security Intelligence Service We have a right to be frustrated, concerned, angry anger that's building and building. -- Phil Fontaine, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations