About this ebook
Just a day before this, vacationing on the blustery October beach of his hometown, Afife, Portugal, Mateus Cordozo, an engineer, is attempting to reconcile his midlife crisis. He sits and drinks wine, trying to vanquish his demons, when a very beautiful woman appears on the lonely stretch. They engage a conversation, and soon, she reveals her true agenda, telling him that a nuclear debacle is about to consume the world, and only he has the means of stopping it. Cordozo dismisses her statement and refuses to accept it as true; but over the course of the next 24 hours, Mateus must either face and reconcile his demons and accept her bizarre prediction, or watch as the world is pitched into an apocalyptic war.
"This is a fast paced read but the plot contains complex ideas which adds a depth to the book. Full of action and real life scenarios this is one of those books you can spend hours reading without realizing where the time has gone. There are plenty of surprises and twists. This book will appeal to crime and science fiction fans. And will also interest those intrigued by geopolitical themes."
The Portugal News
"The story races along with pace of a Tom Clancy thriller but the depth of the plot is rich in complexities philosophical ideas. Highly recommended for readers who like fast paced thrillers but with an ingenious twist."
Book-Reviewer.com
"I definitely recommend Twilight Visitor by Real Laplaine as a five star read to all audiences fond of international political thrillers. It has an awesome, suspenseful plot that can be described as an out of this world political intrigue!"
BlogCritics.org
“… a high concept thriller that is comparable with the best of Dan Brown or Jack Higgins.”
Novelist, David Luddington
About the author
At the age of 14, glued to a television set as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Réal Laplaine decided he would become Canada's first astronaut. By the age of 16, still in school and working a part-time job, he financed his own way, learning to fly a plane. His plan was to become a bush pilot, figuring that if he could survive the rigors of Canada's frontier, a profession that tested one's survival skills, like test pilots who were the usual crop for new astronauts, that NASA would accept him as an astronaut. Sadly, he got sidetracked, but he never lost sight of his dream to explore the stars.
Today he writes novels, mostly in the speculative fiction genre, and concurs with Margaret Atwood (author of The Handmaid's Tale) who defines speculative fiction as..."literature that deals with possibilities in a society which have not yet been enacted but are latent."
He also pens a Canadian crime novel series, the Keeno Crime Thrillers, presenting a new crime fighter to the global arena, less suave, and certainly Canadian to the core.
While his books are entertaining and thrilling, Réal spends considerable time building contemporary issues into his plots, to help raise awareness about important matters in the world; namely, the suicidal existence of nuclear weapons in the hands of questionably sane people, global warming and human rights. To that end, he has created B.A.N. an acronym for Ban All Nukes, a forum to help raise awareness and to motivate action to abolish nuclear weapons in the world. He also created International Writers Inspiring Change, a platform that spotlights the works and inspiration of writers around the world - to help promote literacy and reading and to inspire the culture with the seeds of change.
