Diplomatic Circles

Ex-diplomat pens satirical thriller on Russian eco-terrorism, mysterious murder, and mundane meetings

Keith Halliday is the author of The Tar Sands Diplomat, a satirical thriller making light of the heavy bureaucracy that weighs down Canada's foreign service. Photo courtesy of Keith Halliday

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BY CHELSEA NASH

July 20, 2016

Keith Halliday knows how mundane the work of a Canadian foreign service officer can be. He knows how it feels to spend meeting after meeting and round after round of editing in preparing briefing notes for a cabinet minister, "and then fin...

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