Stephen Cain
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Eight highly trained but retired SAS members find their skills in demand worldwide. Their team leader Jonnie McBride lives in Thailand where he is contacted by billionaire Vanessa Stock, whose twin sister has been kidnapped by a human slave trader. The high octane story takes its reader on a journey of power, wealth, lust and murder from America to England, Oman to Cyprus and Turkey in order to kill the man that Jonnie McBride thought was already...
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In this triptych of serial poems steeped in baseball and Toronto, Stephen Cain considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.
"Walking & Stealing" was composed between innings of his son's little league baseball games. The sport becomes a site for explorations of duration, association, and subjectivity. The ninety-nine poems of "Intentional Walks" follow mapped routes throughout the city to study the relationship between...
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False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"-two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humorous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore errors, misapprehensions, and mistranslations and offer insights into the "secret operations" hiding...
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Having successfully rescued a group of women from the clutches of a Turkish slave trader, Jonnie McBride returns to Thailand where he is contacted by the CIA to carry-out a covert operation to assassinate the leaders of the Philippines terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front. He is informed that the leaders intend to gather on the island of Siquijor in the Philippines in order to join forces. McBride and a select number...