Man in the Shadows
Published on 25. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-998779-90-1 (ISBN)
Description
Man in the Shadows reveals a pivotal moment when Canadian politics confronts assassination, loyalty, and national identity.
Man in the Shadows is the prequel to Gordon Henderson's acclaimed historical epic, Out of the Shadows. Gripping and rich, Man in the Shadows builds on the complicated Canadian historical record and illuminates one of the most dramatic events in our history--the assassination of Canada's most eloquent Father of Confederation, and former Irish nationalist, Thomas D'Arcy McGee.
As the fledgling country was forming, its security was threatened by the Fenian Brotherhood, a group of Irish republicans advocating a forcible takeover of Canada by the United States. They targeted McGee and had plans to do away with his friend Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
Man in the Shadows builds to a tipping point and captures the shocking reality of political and historical repetition that has become an immediate and integral topic of Canadian patriotism in the face of modern fascism.
Man in the Shadows is the prequel to Gordon Henderson's acclaimed historical epic, Out of the Shadows. Gripping and rich, Man in the Shadows builds on the complicated Canadian historical record and illuminates one of the most dramatic events in our history--the assassination of Canada's most eloquent Father of Confederation, and former Irish nationalist, Thomas D'Arcy McGee.
As the fledgling country was forming, its security was threatened by the Fenian Brotherhood, a group of Irish republicans advocating a forcible takeover of Canada by the United States. They targeted McGee and had plans to do away with his friend Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
Man in the Shadows builds to a tipping point and captures the shocking reality of political and historical repetition that has become an immediate and integral topic of Canadian patriotism in the face of modern fascism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MB
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-998779-90-1 (9781998779901)
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Person
GORDON HENDERSON is an accomplished journalist and documentary filmmaker. His company 90th Parallel Productions has produced more than a hundred premium documentaries which have run on all major Canadian networks and been broadcast around the world. Many have won national and international awards.
Henderson is no stranger to Canadian history. He was a parliamentary correspondent, a current affairs producer and a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada Canada: A People's History.
Henderson is the author of the novel Man in the Shadows, built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D'Arcy McGee.
For more than a decade he taught in the Journalism department at Toronto's Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He lives in Toronto with his wife Pam.
Henderson is no stranger to Canadian history. He was a parliamentary correspondent, a current affairs producer and a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada Canada: A People's History.
Henderson is the author of the novel Man in the Shadows, built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D'Arcy McGee.
For more than a decade he taught in the Journalism department at Toronto's Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He lives in Toronto with his wife Pam.