Cape Torment

Richard Donovan was a British Airways flight purser for thirty years and, during his career, worked aboard a wide variety of civil airliners including the supersonic Concorde. His love of short story writing, and a lifelong interest in aviation history, led to him researching the ''Albert Guay Affair'' - one of Canada's most infamous criminal cases - and finally resulted in his commitment to writing a novel based on the subject. CAPE TORMENT was developed over a period of five years, during which time Donovan spent extended periods in Quebec and Alberta, studying trial transcripts and forming friendships with several people directly linked to the case. He played an insrumental role in organizing the first memorial service ever held for those whose lives were so cruelly taken more than six decades ago and, out of respect for those people and their surviving families, he chose, within his book, to change the names of everyone involved in the case. Donovan describes CAPE TORMENT as being a semi-fictionalized novel, although he has adhered extremely closely to the known facts of the criminal history, and he believes that his is the first novel ever to have covered it in such depth. The author is currently located in Andalucia, and is in the process of researching his next fact-based work.