BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Montreal BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20260930T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20260930T180000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:James Benn (The Ninth Circle) Author Talk and Signing DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with James Benn for the book\, The Ninth Circle. About the Book To solve a double murder in Cuba\, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana's underworld and British intelligence\, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R. Benn's fan-favorite\, critically-acclaimed WWII mystery series marks 20 years of Billy Boyle\, an Irish American cop from Boston thrust onto the staff of his "uncle" Ike Eisenhower for sensitive overseas military investigations. January\, 1945: If US Army Captain Billy Boyle thinks a summons to Havana will give him a chance to sip a cold Hatuey under the Caribbean sun\, the fantasy is dead on arrival. Within hours of landing\, Billy and his partner-in-crime-solving\, Lieutenant Piotr Kazimierz\, are assigned to investigate the murder of a Navy intelligence officer. But as the men wait for an informant at a beachside bar\, a bomb goes off\, and they narrowly escape with their lives. Then the informant a Cuban taxi driver named Hector D az is found dead outside his apartment. What did Hector know? And who was so desperate to silence him? Thrust into a double-murder investigation\, Billy and Kaz team up with the brass at the British Legation in Havana\, including none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, to gather intel from sources inside Havana's criminal underworld. Their search takes them from Havana's Chinatown to the Gran Casino Nacional\, where notorious gangster Meyer Lansky offers his services if it means defeating the suspected common enemy the Sicherheitsdienst\, the intelligence wing of the Nazi military and finding out what sort of intelligence they are so hell-bent on keeping top-secret at this late stage in the war. About the Author James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut\, Billy Boyle\, was selected as a Top Five Book of the Year by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee\, A Blind Goddess was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, The Rest Is Silence was a Barry Award nominee\, and The Devouring was a Macavity Award nominee. Benn\, a former librarian\, lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife\, Deborah Mandel. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with James Benn for the book\, The Ninth Circle. \;

About the Book \;

To solve a double murder in Cuba\, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana&rsquo\;s underworld and British intelligence\, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R. Benn&rsquo\;s fan-favorite\, critically-acclaimed WWII mystery series marks 20 years of Billy Boyle\, an Irish American cop from Boston thrust onto the staff of his &ldquo\;uncle&rdquo\; Ike Eisenhower for sensitive overseas military investigations. January\, 1945: If US Army Captain Billy Boyle thinks a summons to Havana will give him a chance to sip a cold Hatuey under the Caribbean sun\, the fantasy is dead on arrival. Within hours of landing\, Billy and his partner-in-crime-solving\, Lieutenant Piotr Kazimierz\, are assigned to investigate the murder of a Navy intelligence officer. But as the men wait for an informant at a beachside bar\, a bomb goes off\, and they narrowly escape with their lives. Then the informant&mdash\;a Cuban taxi driver named Hector Dí\;az&mdash\;is found dead outside his apartment. What did Hector know? And who was so desperate to silence him? Thrust into a double-murder investigation\, Billy and Kaz team up with the brass at the British Legation in Havana\, including none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, to gather intel from sources inside Havana&rsquo\;s criminal underworld. Their search takes them from Havana&rsquo\;s Chinatown to the Gran Casino Nacional\, where notorious gangster Meyer Lansky offers his services if it means defeating the suspected common enemy&mdash\;the Sicherheitsdienst\, the intelligence wing of the Nazi military&mdash\;and finding out what sort of intelligence they are so hell-bent on keeping top-secret at this late stage in the war. \;

About the Author \;

James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut\, Billy Boyle\, was selected as a Top Five Book of the Year by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee\, A Blind Goddess was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, The Rest Is Silence was a Barry Award nominee\, and The Devouring was a Macavity Award nominee. Benn\, a former librarian\, lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife\, Deborah Mandel.

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