Pierre Marion

IN THE DOCK

Victims of social injury

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781503556232
• ISBN-10: 1503556239
• Artikelnr.: 53121000

Autorenporträt

The author, Pierre Marion, has made a career in international development, which has included engagements in the Eastern Caribbean, West Africa and in Central America, where he remains. Pierre wanted to record the events and the communications so he began to record these 35 years ago. As time passed he felt a need to honor the victims who had to live through an unnecessary emotionally tortuous time period, and this story is the result. It is late summer in 1977 in the Québec Province of Canada, when a credit manager of a notable banking institution in Sherbrooke is kidnapped. In its day a $1 million ransom was an unheard of amount of wealth, and the abduction received international coverage. At the same time, a prevalent criminal profiling theory believed families or someone close to the family is nearly always involved in abductions and ransom demands. How did the family walk a tightrope of cooperation with investigators and protect themselves from having misconstrued events and comments become arguments for what might later land them on the bench of the accused? And who was feeding information about the investigation to the media, and why? This just unleashed waves of public negativity and other unintended consequences. And how could a chance beer at a local pub break the case wide open nearly eleven months after the abduction? Did it end the ordeal, or what then would follow and for how long? It is with this in mind that Pierre Marion, the hostage's son had to tell the real story, as best he could. The names of most characters where changed so their identities would be protected.