The Roof Walkers

'A fictional tour de force of Canada moving toward Confederation in the eighteen-sixties, told through letters sent to the head of Canada Wests secret service by a young Montreal Irishman who has penetrated the Fenian movement in New York. A superb, hugely enjoyable historical thriller, written with clarity and elegance. Intelligent history at its best.' - BARBARA KAY, Columnist, The National Post 'Keith Hendersons remarkable new novel, The Roof Walkers, brilliantly captures the tensions of the period surrounding Confederation. Anyone who thinks Canadian history is dullor that its all about compromise and finding the middle wayis in for a surprise when they read this book.' -SCOTT REID, Member of Parliament since 2000 and Author of Lament for a Notion and Canada Remapped 'Keith Henderson explores the hidden cloak and dagger history of Canadas founding during the mid-1860s through a series of fictional reports from a secret service agent to John A. Macdonalds spymaster Gilbert McMicken, a very real personage in Canadian history. In its portrayal of the murky world of cross-border spying and American Irish Fenian insurgent raids into Canada in 1866 on the eve of Confederation, Hendersons fictional treatment authentically goes where few Canadian historians have dared to venture.'- PETER VRONSKY, Author of Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle that Made Canada