Blood in the Water: A True Story of Small-Town Revenge

By Silver Donald Cameron

Book Overview

FASCINATING -- Margaret Atwood

As gripping as your favorite episode of Law & Order but with immersive storytelling and moral complexity that only great literature can provide around matters such as community, social and legal justice, and the media.

In June 2013, three citizens of a small town on Canada's Cape Breton Island murdered their neighbor, Phillip Boudreau, a resourceful small-time criminal who had unnerved and entertained the community for two decades and spent nearly half his adult life in prison. Funny and frightening, Boudreau seemed destined to plague the village forever.

One day two Landry cousins and skipper Dwayne Samson (husband to a Landry daughter) came upon Boudreau in his boat, about to vandalize their lobster traps. Like so many times before, Boudreau was about to cost them thousands of dollars out of their seasonal livelihood. One man took out a rifle and fired four shots at Boudreau and his boat. To finish the job, they rammed their own larger boat over the top of his, then completed the day's fishing.

Was the Boudreau killing cold blooded murder, a direct reaction to credible threats, or the tragic result of local officials lacking the resources and authority to protect the community? Boudreau's body was never found.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586422936
• ISBN13: 9781586422936
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"