Archangel by Graeme Gibson

Archangel by Graeme Gibson

It is 1970 and Jamie Raeburn (The Janus Complex) has put his dark past behind him.or so he thinks. But a secret U.S. document passed to Ultra, a clandestine British Security Organisation, revives his nightmare. Confronted with his past Jamie joins Ultra and becomes one of the organisation's top assassins, the Archangels, carrying out a series of assassinations in Northern Ireland as the U.K. Government tries to destabilise both Nationalist and Loyalist factions. He compartmentalises his life, living as two people; Jamie Raeburn, husband and father, and Michael Messenger, State sponsored assassin, until one day he is ordered to kill a man and begins to question what he is being ordered to do. He wants to get out but no Archangel simply leaves Ultra. In an explosive conclusion Jamie faces an IRA execution squad, outnumbered and outmanoeuvred.and they knew he was coming. Someone wants him dead, but who.and why?

An important spokesman for Canadian cultural identity, Gibson was the initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, and was its chairman in 1976. He was also an organizer and founding member of the Writers' Trust, a non-profit organization, and was subsequently its chairman. From 1987 to 1989 he was president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN.

In 1990, he won a Toronto Arts Award for writing and publishing, and, in 1992 he received the Order of Canada. He is the author of four novels, Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971), Perpetual Motion (1982), and Gentleman Death (1993).

Graeme Gibson lives in Toronto, Ontario.