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SHADOWS OF DUBAI
A buried USB drive. Twenty years of grief, shattered in an instant. The truth always leaves a trace.
Montreal, October 2025. At the old Angus Shops, Émile Boucher and his faithful Tango dig up a military locket holding a mysterious USB drive. For Morgane Hébert, a security consultant, it’s an earthquake: the object belongs to Geneviève Martel, her best friend, who vanished without a trace in 2005.
Consumed by guilt, Morgane refuses to let this secret die a second time. Backed by Major Sterling, a legend of the special forces, and a team of shadow experts, she follows the trail to the edge of the desert. Under the shadow of the Al-Sayf empire, lives are erased to serve a system beyond comprehension.
But danger is also brewing in Montreal. Between the Coroner’s Office archives and the corridors of power, some are making sure the silence stays permanent.
FFrom childhood secrets on Bellechasse Street to international conspiracies in Dubai, Morgane launches a quest for truth where official justice has failed. Because the past isn’t dead. It’s only waiting to be set free.
"Facta non verba. Deeds, not words."
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"A fast-paced story that intersects with Millennium... one of the detective series that most often keeps me up at night." — Catherine-Anne L., linguistic editor
The Pen Behind the Shadow
As a criminal intelligence analyst with the Sûreté du Québec, Marie-Nancy G. has always been drawn to crime's new frontiers. From playing 'Charlie's Angels' as a kid to an academic deep dive into cyber-investigation, her writing feeds on that same hunger to understand what lies behind the scenes. Today, she puts that background to work weaving plots where fiction flirts with the realism of crime's newest frontiers. Meet the woman who's about to lift the veil on Dubai's secrets.
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