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I feel for West, having to combat Peters ovaries. It's actually rather selfish on Peter's part, West has been clear he doesn't want kids. With his work, I can't imagine he could be an active and engaged father.

True Will fashion, when a bully smacks you down, you get up and hit them back harder. Nice to see Andrew functional, although how he will manage in a blacked out city will (hopefully!) be revealed soon. I'm sure it's going to be a shitstorm and Andrew won't play nice. Was his code name a tip of the hat to Jeff Burton here on GA? Seemed appropriate, since Andrew is now "CIA". Will might as well have nuked them, those electrical components in the grid are all custom and take years to replace. He just consigned the northeast US to the 18th century for years to come. ( I have a friend who is an electrical engineer and used to work for a grid operator. Will might as well have carpet bombed them, the destruction you described would take as long to repair as if Will had unleashed a bomber fleet)

Yes, lots to digest in this chapter. The tide is definitely turning, the Americans are losing their grip. I wonder what Trump will say to Abernathy when Will somehow lets it be known that Andrew is back in Canada? A real shame about the young, but eager Tremblay. It's unfortunate he became collateral damage because of a pompous twat's ego.

Some guns can be fun. I watched a video of an Aussie Pest Controller shooting rats on a farm. The rats were stealing the chicken's food, he shot 113 rats in one night with an air rifle. It was a bit addictive watching rats do backflips when shot.

I do believe there was an outbreak of Tourettes.

Are the timestamps off again? It looks like Enrico's infiltration was in the morning and Andrew escaped that afternoon. Good to see the fine doctor getting to experience the effects of his own devices. Nothing quite like immersive research!

Glad you picked that one instead of the 85 with the anemic 302. Granted the SVO version was a lot better than the standard engine in 1983, but it was still no ball of fire. 5 litres and 157hp is not much to brag about (well, it was in 85, when the standard engine was 129hp.) The same 129hp engine was used in the Lincolns. A friend of mine has one and as he says "0-60mph: eventuallyish!"

That too. It was heartening to see Jacob's spirit guiding Andrew though.

Oh dear, Andrew is on the loose. Enrico needs to find him fast, it's a long way from that swamp to Ottawa and he isn't going to make it on one tank of gas. He should have grabbed Bubba's wallet to pay for gas!

Last time I checked, no to both! Maybe a bit blue as my thermometer said it was -20°C when I was outside tonight. Or as I believe a Scottish weatherman would call it "freshing from the north".

Jacob is intelligent well beyond his years, he has certainly picked up a lot from Andrew in terms of observation skills. Weston is the oblivious joker who doesn't realize the danger he's in. I suppose that's the place an 11 year old should be, but it's a good thing Jacob is alert and subconsciously working with Xue and picking up on her subtext when he needs to. So why didn't the kids have an RCMP detail securing the museum and them within it?

You're fuzzy and green?

I'm liking El Coyote's style, dispose of the trash with no fuss, no muss.

Ah, I didn't know that , I thought it was 18.

I could see them looking the other way at 16 or 17, but really surprised at 14. My Grandfather was 30 when war broke out, he had joined the army in 1938.

They might. In WW2, there representatives of many nations of the British Commonwealth fighting together. The largest contingents were from the older Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa all sent substantial armies to fight alongside the British. In the Italian campaign for example, the 8th Indian Division, 4th British Infantry Division, II Polish Corps and 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade all fought together along a single front, under the command of the British 8th Army. In Canada, about 10% of the population joined the armed forces, which is quite significant considering how much of the population was ineligible to serve, as being either too young, too old, in reserved occupations, or not medically fit to fight. The Commonwealth countries helped each other in other ways, Canada for example was home of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where members of all the Commonwealth Air Forces were taught how to fly. Canada had large amounts of space, free from enemy attack and good flying weather.

You've really done it now, I had tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat reading this. My Grandfather was in the Canadian Armoured Regiment and in early1945 his unit was moved to Holland and they spent the rest of the war in Holland. Fortunately, he came home at the end of the war. I have Dutch friends, and they have never forgotten what the Canadians did for their nation. Knowing as much history of the conflict as I do now, I wish I had asked more questions while my Grandfather was alive, but as is common with many of the veterans, he never really talked about his experiences overseas.

Is the guy on the floor drinking from a teapot?

Can you really see Will giving in to a bully? Doing that would crush him. Giving in to bullies has never been the way Will operates.

Don't forget a very skilled helicopter pilot!

Damn, smart people don't cross Will.😲 Nice to see Captain Cheeto cut down to size though. (How many chapters is this book?)

Or West. Don't forget his determination to avenge wrong either.

I'm sure hoping book 3 will find CSIS doing a similar rendition to Father and having him laying at Will's feet looking for the mercy he won't get.

Oh Andrew, you silly twit. Hopefully he just gets expelled and sent back to Canada by the local yokels. With any luck the DG can send someone down to collect him and the local PD will have a problem off their hands and it stays under the radar. Pilot under the influence of drugs strays off course etc; So sorry, nothing to see here. Now if the customs and immigration guys apprehend Andrew and are corrupt and under the control of Abernathy then Will has a very different problem.

I think it's worth quoting from a news article at the time: It is the critical moment of the attack on Parliament Hill: Before any more lives could be taken by gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, he is shot dead by House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers. Zehaf-Bibeau had exchanged gunshots with parliamentary security at the entrance of Centre Block and ran down the long Hall of Honour towards the doors to the Parliamentary Library. As he ran down the hall, pursued by RCMP officers, he passed the barricaded doors on his left, behind which the prime minister and the Conservative MPs were meeting. On his right, the doors to another caucus room where NDP MPs were diving for cover. He shot at both doors, with one bullet penetrating the outer doors to the NDP caucus room. Zehaf-Bibeau continued down the hall toward the wooden doors of the Library of Parliament, where he lodged himself behind a stone pillar beside an alcove to the right of the library's entrance. Vickers' office is around the corner, a few metres away. Hearing gunshots, Vickers grabbed his side arm, a semi-automatic pistol, and immediately ran out. His security team, who had been chasing Bibeau, yelled to Vickers that the suspect was hiding in the alcove. Vickers immediately ran behind the other side of the pillar. That put him an arm's-length away from Bibeau. According to guards, Vickers actually could see the barrel of Bibeau's gun pointing out, a foot away. Vickers did not hesitate. In one motion, he dove to the floor around the pillar, at the feet of Bibeau, turning on his back as he landed and simultaneously firing his weapon upwards at Bibeau. Bibeau was hit multiple times and fell to the ground. Vickers kept firing, emptying his entire magazine. As soon as Bibeau dropped, the rest of the security team sprinted forward and opened fire. Several bullet holes in the walls in the alcove give a sense of the numbers of rounds fired, and many more hit Bibeau. One bullet passed right through the wooden library doors, hitting the librarians' desk deep inside. But no one else was injured in that final exchange of gunfire. According to sources, Vickers calmly got up after the firing was over and went back to his office to reload his gun in case a threat remained. He then went to the Conservative caucus room where Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his MPs had barricaded the room's doors with chairs. After identifying himself to gain entry to the room, Vickers strode to the microphone at the front of the room and explained what had happened: "I engaged the suspect and the suspect is deceased," he said. According to sources, the entire room erupted in cheers, as Vickers left to continue to secure the grounds.