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Novels
Crown Fire
When Canadian Forces soldier Jen Blaylock's father – an investigative journalist – and the rest of her family are murdered in an attempt to cover up illegal arms sales, Blaylock abandons military life to plan her revenge against Integrated Security, the multinational conglomerate she deems responsible.
Blaylock's vengeful mission takes on global proportions when she and disaffected InSec employee Mike Flanagan uncover a plot that could trigger world-wide chaos. As the tension and the body count rise, Crown Fire moves from New York City to Paris to Brussels to Moscow before Blaylock launches a final, incendiary attack in the Canadian Shield.
“A top-notch read – complex and as intelligent as it is entertaining.” - Christopher Hyde, author of The Second Assassin and A Gathering of Saints
“David Annandale's savvy and savage first novel announces a top new talent in thriller fiction... it will keep aficionados reading late into the summer night.” - Douglas Barbour, Edmonton Journal
“... whiz-bang, high-body-count combat and a forest fire so scary it's liable to discourage tourism in the Canadian Shield.” - Douglas J. Johnston, Winnipeg Free Press
Kornukopia
Kornukopia begins shortly after the events of Crown Fire, which culminated in a fiery climax at a G7 meeting in a north-western Ontario vacation lodge that saw the deaths of most of the leaders of the free world. Now, Jen Blaylock returns to fight a new, more dangerous enemy with a bigger arsenal, and leaves in her wake another head-spinning body count.
When Blaylock discovers that the New York mob is paying crooked cops and anarchists to cause disturbances at an Ottawa anti-globalization rally, she sees a chance to rev up her war machine once again, and heads for the Big Apple. There she reunites with would-be lover and reluctant Integrated Security employee Mike Flanagan, who is troubled by InSec's quick recovery from the death of CEO Arthur Pembroke, and by his growing feelings for the ultra-violent Jen.
As Blaylock wages a one-woman war on the Mafia, Flanagan sniffs out a troubling connection between InSec and a Russian transnational called Kornukopia. While the ill-fated duo connects the dots to a conspiracy that threatens America's highest office and the global economy, Annandale leads readers on a globe-spanning chase that takes Blaylock from her hometown of Winnipeg to a white-hot, operatically destructive climax in Geneva.
The Valedictorians
Russian arms company Kornukopia is in flames, and the one-woman war machine, Jen Blaylock, is having second thoughts about letting CIA Deputy DIrector of Operations, Joe Chapel, live. From his hospital bed in northern Europe, Chapel, self-proclaimed saviour of the USA, plots to kill Blaylock and his former ally, Sam Reed, the President of the United States. He enlists the help of South American dictator General Jorge Quintero. To stop him, Blaylock will have to raise her own army and wage war right to the steps of the Capitol building.