Michael Cochrane – författare

Before Tiger Woods--and before Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan, and even Bobby Jones, there was the great Canadian George S. Lyon.

This first account of Canada''s little-known golf legend, Olympic Lyon traces his incredible journey from small-town Ontario to the final match of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.

At age thirty-seven, the fire insurance salesman and natural athlete from Toronto picked up a golf club for the first time. Just a few years later, he faced the world''s best golfers--men half his age--in a grueling week of competition for the ultimate prize: the first Olympic gold medal for golf and a magnificent Championship Trophy.

A meticulously researched and wildly entertaining work of historical fiction, Olympic Lyon chronicles Lyon''s remarkable career and the sudden rise in popularity of golf in North America. It weaves in such momentous events as the War of 1812, the Louis Riel Rebellion, the St. Louis World''s Fair, and the Great Fire of Toronto. Above all else, it restores the memory of Canada''s champion and ensures that his name will be forever bound to the great game of golf.

"I''m a divorce lawyer; you''re not supposed to like me"

-Andrew Bierce, Q.C.

Don''t worry-you won''t.

He''s smart. He''s skilled. Ruthless. He knows every dark trick in the book. He should, he invented most of them. He''s expensive, very expensive, and downright nasty.

Unfortunately for judges, lawyers, and opposing clients who cross his path, he''s also very effective. And that''s why the angry, the brokenhearted, and the bitter come to him with blank cheques to wage war in the courts.

A popular TV actor divorcing an Olympic athlete, naïvely hoping to shield the gory details from the public; an amorous firefighter who starts more fires than he puts out; a famous but troubled rock star who blew up his marriage with, among other vices, the nanny; a heartbroken criminal lawyer demanding his engagement ring back from a notorious and unfaithful Crown Attorney; well-heeled businesspeople trying to protect their children and their wealth (not necessarily in that order); mothers, fathers, even grandparents, all hire Andrew Bierce, Q.C., looking for what? Results? Revenge? Retribution? Perhaps even justice?

With blistering opinions of his colleagues, a withering contempt for the courts, bitter cynicism towards the law, flexible professional ethics, and a singular focus on victory through "total war," he gives them all more than they ever bargained for, sometimes with tragic results. 

Can justice be delivered without sin?