THE ONLY CAFÉ

A new novel of international intrigue from the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Bishop's Man.
THE ONLY CAFÉ is an exploration of the darkest truths we cannot leave behind.

Pierre Cormier was once a refugee and may be a fugitive from a war crime—a massacre in Lebanon. But he has left his violent history behind to immerse himself in a reconstructed life. He has married and has children, and has buried his guilty secrets into the folds of a new identity. He is a successful lawyer and a decisive trouble-shooter for an international mining company. He is respected by his peers. But an unplanned encounter in an unlikely place—a small pub with an intriguing name—catapults the events of his past into the
present. Cormier's years of peace, prosperity, and success are suddenly threatened, as is the future that he had dared to take for granted.

Seen through the lens of memory, and through the search by a son for the truth of a father he did not fully know, THE ONLY CAFE´ is an exploration of the darkest truths we cannot leave behind.

LINDEN MACINTYRE is the award-winning host of Canada's best-known investigative television show, the fifth estate, where he worked for twenty-four years. For three decades, MacIntyre has been involved in producing documentaries and stories from all over the world including the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Soviet Union and Central America. He is a distinguished broadcast journalist who has won ten Gemini awards for his work.

MacIntyre´s bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA LIbris Award and his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize. His second novel, The Bishop's Man, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, among other honours. The third book in the loose-knit trilogy, Why Men Lie, was also a #1 national bestseller as well as a Globe and Mail "Can't Miss" Book for 2012.

MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.