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In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman's novel sets the scene through the eyes of admirals and lovers, harbour pilots and telegraphers, those who fought to avert the disaster and those who had no idea what was about to happen to them.

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"""Jeremy Akerman's Explosion has the pacing of a thriller movie with a depth of research below the surface. Small details such as Maritime shipping regulations and how Blind Pigs operated are deftly covered but not dwelt on. Akerman has an actor's sense of dramatic tension and this drives the narrative of this extraordinary event in Nova Scotia and world history. It is a remarkable tale of the worst-shooting of looters-and the best-heroism amongst neighbourhoods turned into a wasteland-sides of humanity. I live in Halifax, and found myself days later passing familiar spots, thinking, ""Did all that really happen here?""Explosion deserves to be up on the shelf next to Hugh MacLennon's Barometer Rising and Jon Tattrie's Black Snow."" -- Ronan O'Driscoll, author of Poor Farm"

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Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.He is painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party.

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