The Keeno Crime Thrillers
A unique and perfect blend of crime, thrills, geopolitical intrigue and action, the Keeno Crime Thrillers follow Keeno McCole - who heads up the ATU or Anti-Terrorism-Unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, together with his crime-fighting partner, Jake Williams, and the think-tank and forensic sharpshooters, Janene and Kelly, this four man team takes on major players in the criminal arena. Their exploits and chases take them from Canada to lands across the world as they pursue the perpetrators of crimes ranging from viral attacks, human trafficking and even into Ukraine and Russia as they chase down a vigilante group targeting Vladimir Putin. McCole, a mix of native Indian, Irish and French, is no stranger to pain and he accepts his constant dance with the grim-reaper, evading death but not without his share of bleeding.
Take a ride with this high-octane, high-concept crime and geopolitical thriller series. You will come to love Keeno McCole.
Intrusion (Book 1)
Intrusion is the first book in the Keeno Crime Thriller novels. A series of bizarre deaths in the Canadian tundra, and a hit- and-run in downtown Toronto, hints of something larger, when the RCMP inspect the contents of the dead man's brief case and find strains of a deadly virus. Keeno McCole, head of Canada's special crime-fighting taskforce, and his team, are called in to investigate, and soon discover that all the dots connect somehow. A trail of deaths, a viral attack on Toronto, and the bizarre becomes reality as they chase down a ruthless and elusive enemy from within the nation, casting them on a global hunt to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands and stop one man before he spreads the malicious God Chip, a microchip implant which alone could change our very way of life.
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"Intrusion is a novel in the mold of James Bond...it's an alternative to Cussler..."
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"Author, Réal Laplaine, without being apologetic tells a suspenseful tale with dialog as raw and true as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police characters, who attempt to thwart a plot of international proportion." Nancy Lee Canfield, Author of A Rose for My Mother
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"Well written, exciting & very hard to put down..."
Quantum Assault (Book II)
In Quantum Assault, Book II of the Keeno Crime Thrillers, Keeno's mentor as a child and friend, Ol'Joe, an Indian who lives alone in the Canadian wilderness, contacts him after coming across a young girl running for her life as armed men tracked her. Keeno quickly discovers that the girl escaped from a human trafficking ring nearby, one where many other girls her age, hijacked from their homes, are being sold as sex slaves, but before doing so, they are also injected with something designed to change their fertility, and that "something", unbeknownst even to the traffickers, is about to spread across the globe, unless stopped. Another high-octane high-concept thriller that will keep you reading to the end.
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"Keeno is a man you fall in love with and makes you smile. You're a tad bit jealous of his girlfriend but in love with their chemistry. This book has the fast placed action and suspense that keeps you turning pages, or swiping....
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can not wait to start the next in the series."
The One (Book III)
When the body of a young woman shows up in the Soo Locks, it is soon discovered that she is the niece of the Prime Minister of Canada. Keeno McCole and Jake Williams, the RCMP's Anti-Terrorist crime-fighters, are dispatched to Winnipeg to investigate a suspected cult, when they are suddenly faced with a hostage crisis and attack on the nation's largest news network. The case soon becomes much more than what it appeared to be. Up against a brilliant sociopath, the investigation goes terribly wrong, and Keeno and his team find themselves under attack in ways they never thought possible. A twisted thriller to the last page.
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"I really love the characters in this series, especially Keeno. Once you pick up the book it's really difficult to put it back down. Real is a fantastic writer And brings more To his books then just adventures. They make you think This book particularly spokes to experiences in my own life."
The 9th Divinity (Book IV)
A vigilante group calling themselves the 9th Divinity, declares to the world that they will stop Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, dismantle Russia's nuclear arsenal and do the same with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Global powers, particularly the U.S.A., panic as the declaration goes viral, seeing it as a provocation that could tip the scales toward nuclear war. Keeno McCole, and his Anti-Terrorism-Unit, a special unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are called into play when it is discovered that the 9th Divinity is apparently operating from within Canada. The investigation takes Keeno and his crime-fighting partner, Jake Williams, along with the rest of the team, on a chase that leads them into the heart of the war zone in Ukraine, where Keeno witnesses the devastation and death-toll caused by Putin and his kill-squads. The 9th Divinity reveals to Keeno just how, using advanced drone technology and artificial intelligence - they intend to accomplish their claims to bring about peace. Keeno is faced with a new challenge; is the 9th Divinity the real enemy he should be chasing down and stopping? And if they can stop the madman, Putin, why is he trying to stop them? Principles vs loyalty – honor vs duty - a new war erupts inside him. These are the questions that plague him as he faces the carnage in Ukraine and the decision he makes will send him on a mission of epic proportions.
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"Terrifyingly written and so realistic. From a master of suspense, an activist for human rights and against nuclear weapons, comes a disturbingly believable story of people who are ready to risk their lives—and AI is of a great help for it—to save the humankind from governing sociopaths and criminals. Though fiction, it is not. Ranked as a thriller, the book gives an impression of nowadays chronicles."
Written when ABBA, the Swedish pop-group that swept across the world in the 70s and 80s with their memorable songs, Finding Agnetha is an inspired story about a young boy who loved the group and wanted to see them play live again, despite the fact that everyone, the band included, said it would never happen.
He sets out on a mission, running away from his troubled home in America, makes it to Sweden and searches out Agnetha Faltskog, the iconic blonde singer from the group. Chased by police in two countries, Morrie Norris does not relinquish his dream, and everyone he meets along the way, are charmed by a boy with a passion that cannot be quenched. And while ABBA has finally come out of retirement in recent times, this story will still touch your heart, sprinkling some of that ABBA magic and nostalgia over you and reminding you that dreams do come true.
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"An absolute must for any ABBA fan, as beguiling as it is well-written, involving one fan's dogged determination to bring to fruition that which will never happen...An ABBA reunion. Just buy it boys and girls!"
It's a brutally cold day in Buffalo, New York, one of those days when folks are hunkered down inside their homes, but for 71-year-old John Ross, a warm house, safe from the screeching winds which assault the city from the north, there is no warmth. For those who even notice him, a homeless man, wearing tattered clothes, thin and gaunt, with a thick gray beard covering most of his face, he is referred to as the Buffalo Kid, just another vagrant, who lives under a bridge in a cardboard box. People assume the worst of course, but no one, except a local police officer knows the truth about who the Kid really is and why he has walked the streets, destitute and penniless for 31 years. Despite his poverty, the Buffalo Kid has never relinquished his dream that someday he would get a second chance at life, and that maybe, before he clocked out for good, a chance to see his children who disappeared from his life as newborns. Plying the barren and bitterly cold streets one day, he meets a stranger who hands him a fifty-dollar bill and walks off. The encounter leaves the Kid stunned. Determined to find out more about the man, he follows him, and what ensues changes everything. This is a story about undying hope and that everyone deserves a second chance in life.
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"You'll want to reread this one after finishing it. Yes it is that good. Deserving of 5 solid stars."
Six decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe, not only remains a Hollywood legend, a woman who broke the mold as a female icon of her time, but also a mystery because of the nature of her death. One of the most successful women of her time, suddenly ends up dead in her home, reportedly from an overdose. The investigators are quick to sign it off as "suicide" - but the oddities do not add up to that conclusion. Marilyn was an influential woman, a progressive, and she had the ear of the then President of the U.S.A. John F. Kennedy. There were people who saw her as a threat. This opens the door to another perspective; did this highly successful and vibrant woman actually take her own life at the age of 36, was she that depressed, or was she targeted?
The only person who can answer that question and reveal the truth is Marilyn, but she's dead - right?
In Dead but not Gone, without spoilers, a strange phenomenon sweeps over the cemetery where Marilyn was buried in 1962, and within minutes, the bizarre rattling can be heard coming from her coffin - and what emerges is not her boney remains, but in fact, Marilyn, just as beautiful as the day she was laid to rest. Utterly confused and disoriented, she stumbles her way through West Hollywood and finally meets someone who helps her.
Marilyn gets a 2nd chance at life, and she intends on telling the world what really happened on that fateful night - and that is about to send her on a rollercoaster ride.
Dead but not Gone is a bit of a romance, a good dose of humor, a bit of this and that - but one thing is for sure - it gives our legendary blonde the respect she is due and a chance to tell you, the reader, her story and not the one pawned off on the world by others.
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"With just the perfect amount of technical and scientific information you dive into a compelling story of what ifs. Funny, with drama and a touch of a love story this book had it all. Thank you Réal for this wonderful opportunity to see life from beyond the grave."
“True love stories never have endings.”
When Cowboys Fall is a true love story.
Trent McCallister, a born and raised cowboy from Canada's west, vacationing in Cyprus in the hopes of finding reconciliation for his mid-life crisis, didn't expect to be knocked overboard from his skiff that day, but when it happened, he found himself floating in the middle of the Aegean Sea - struggling to survive, and it looked as if the boney of death was going to win; but Trent's life was about to take a surprising turn.
When Cowboys Fall is inspired by true events, a story that most anyone can relate to, about the roads we walk, sometimes the wrong ones, sometimes, seemingly, a road to nowhere, especially when that road ahead suddenly becomes shorter than the one we have travelled and time becomes our enemy. This is a story about rediscovery, realizing abandoned dreams and finding love - an inspiring story that reminds us it is never too late to change the road we are on or even to find true love.
The book is dedicated to the people of Palestine in the hopes that also inspires them to keep fighting for their rights to exist.
A university student from Toronto, Canada, takes a short vacation to Calcutta, India, where a “friend” introduces him to a “special place”. Jared, unaware of what he is walking into, suddenly finds himself in a room with a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Hann’Sha. Shocked that she expects to have sex with him, Jared flees the building but soon finds himself consumed with both guilt and a passion to help her. The story that ensues is inspired by true events, because it is the story of countless thousands of young children in India, and elsewhere, who are sold into sexual servitude by impoverished families, and who live a life as such until they either die or serve no further use. Jared makes it his mission to save Hann’Sha, but to do so he will have to face a corrupt law enforcement and worse, a criminal underworld, one that would kill him before letting her go. Can he do it or is he walking into certain death?
See Me Not was inspired by an eight-year-old girl living in the ditches of Calcutta. Her perseverance and will to survive is the reason behind this story – one intended to put the spotlight on a global issue - the human trafficking pipeline – a multi-billion-dollar global industry today.
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"In spite of the gruesome subject, the reading is not depressing. Written in elegant prose, it is not only about the ills of humanity, but also about hope and optimism which, as the novella suggests, should be part of our lives no matter what." - Author, A. Markman
Mateus Cordozo has just returned to his hometown of Afife, Portugal, a short vacation where he hopes to reconcile his midlife crisis, what he sees as his failure as a man - far from his "normal" life as a bioengineer back in Sweden. With two bottles of wine, cheese and freshly baked bread, he finds a secluded spot on a blustery beach where he is certain that no one will interrupt his soul-searching. His solitude is interrupted when a beautiful woman, almost too perfect, appears and asks to sit with him. Mateus is beside himself, because women rarely ever show any interest in him. Their conversation soon hits a brick wall when she announces her true purpose in seeking him out, which sends Cordozo into a mental spin, adamantly rejecting her claims as ridiculous and outlandish, at which he promptly ends their conversation. He tries to forget the bizarre dialogue, but everywhere he goes, people and the media, are talking about nothing else. His inner demons strike back, compelling him to take the "safe road", the story of his life, and the very reason he now finds himself in Afife and standing on the precipice. Should he take the leap of faith? Should he believe the stranger? Or should he take the "safe bet" and just crawl back into his shell? As the zero-hour nears, he must act before it is too late - but will he?
"… a high concept thriller that is comparable with the best of Dan Brown or Jack Higgins."
Novelist, David Luddington
On the outside, Troy Evans is just an average guy, working as a graphic designer in Minneapolis, but pull back the curtain and we discover a man with a dual life. It all started at age of ten, when Troy fell from a tree while playing, hit his head and should have died, but he didn't. What did happen was a life-changing event, what is called an Out-of-Body or Near-Death-Experience. In the years that follow, Troy experiences repeated OOBs and soon discovers that he can control them. One day, while plying his new ability, Troy happens upon a secretive meeting in a hotel hundreds miles from his home, and is drawn to listen in. Shocked by what he hears, he reports the matter to Homeland Security as an imminent terrorist attack on the nation. Within days, his apartment is raided, and Troy finds himself locked away in a high-security facility for mentally impaired, labelled as delusional and dangerous to society. Despite his attempts to clear his name of these labels, and to implore people to look into his claims, no one listens, no one except the psychologist who is meeting with him in the hopes of addressing his delusional state of mind. Troy eventually manages to convince her that his story is true, and that those who have locked him up are the very people behind the imminent attack on the nation, one that will make 9/11 look like a walk in the park. She helps him to escape from the facility and together, they run, attempting to contact the authorities who will listen, but at every turn, those behind the plot are on their trail, and the window is closing, just days ahead, when the attack happens. A high-concept thriller.
If you liked the Netflix series, Zero Day, with Robert De Niro, you will love Deception People.
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"Deception People. Telling the truth can be fatal, is the first of a series of books that is a well written, intriguing, action-packed thriller with a supernatural twist that I thoroughly enjoyed. If you like Patriot Games and The Bourne Identity, I recommend this book."
Mia Chen, head of the LISEA project, short for Life Search, a unit in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory facility in Pasadena, California, charged with investigating any source or signs of life in the distant stars, is notified that someone is waiting to see her in the lobby. The man she meets towers above her small Asian form. Moreover, his silver dreads, incredibly dark skin and penetrating gaze sets him apart from anyone else in the lobby. He introduces himself and says he has been looking forward to meeting her, and when she inquires why, he informs her that he has come from another planet seeking refuge on Earth, and what better person to assist him in his mission than the very person in charge of proving his existence. What unfolds in this high-concept thriller, is a believable, and unbelievable scenario, as the strange visitor reveals the truth behind why he fled from his home world, and what his purpose is for coming to Earth, and why she must help him before other authorities discover his presence; but that is easier said than done, and of course, when his presence is detected, all hell breaks loose.
When Gods Roar is not only a speculative fiction thriller, it also deep-dives into the paradigm of our culture, into what lies behind the curtain of humanity's propensity for war and violence, moreover, the stranger promises to reveal existential secrets about the Universe and Creation - but only on two conditions and those conditions become the pivot point between global war or lasting peace on Earth.
"In all my 83 years I have never read any book, including the Christian and Judaic versions of the Bible, which offers so much depth in the guise of a novel." B. Rourke, author
In 2015, NASA's Kepler space observatory identified a planet, dubbed Kepler-452b, as having similar qualities to Earth - that is, potentially habitable. The downside, of course, was that it was 1400 light years from us.
It would take another 14 years before science cracked the code, faster-than-light quantum propulsion, making it possible to cover such distances in a matter of years, not tens of centuries. However, mankind's propensity for war has also, by this time, pushed the world to the edge, where geopolitical powers are facing off in what will inevitably be the war to end all wars - all things.
Jim Tale, the last man you'd ever expect to be commanding the largest ever space vehicle, the Evolution, wakes up years into the journey in preparation for their arrival at K-452b or "New Earth" and with the help of the ship's Ai, CASS, prepares for landing on a planet that could become home to humanity, assuming humanity has not blown itself up into space dust in the meantime.
What they encounter, no one could ever have predicted. The best minds of Earth's combined space agencies never saw this coming, and to that end, neither did Jim Tale.
The journey that ensues is truly a modern-day space odyssey, taking Jim and his crew, with the help of CASS, deep into the Universe, and for Jim, a truth-seeker, someone who joined NASA to hopefully find the answers to existence and Creation, an unbelievable encounter.
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"A thrilling read that takes you on an unusual and captivating adventure, and introduces novel subjects within Ai, spirituality and the existence of intelligent life in the universe. A recommended read."
Imagine you are having visions of places you have never been to, visions so real and so compelling, that each night you wake up in a cold sweat, certain that you have been there, experienced it, and yet, you “know” it cannot be possible.18 year-old Kaetlyn O'Sullivan, living in a small village on the southwest tip of Ireland, is having those visions, bordering on nightmares, about places and things she has never experienced in her life. It is as if some part of her, buried deep in her subconscious, is trying to escape. She goes to a psychologist who eventually resorts to regressive therapy, and what is revealed is not only shocking to both of them, but it also changes Kaetlyn's life, casting her into the global arena as geopolitical powers vie to monopolize what she knows and what she can do. Kaetlyn is not only faced with the shocking reality that her past life has just become her present life, but with it comes the realization that she had a mission to accomplish before she died, and now, that mission is more relevant and more critical to the survival of the human race than ever.
The Other is followed by its sequel: L.I.N. - More human than Ai
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"Réal Laplaine has written a true masterpiece that is hard to put aside, even when you HAVE to sleep. The story unfolds in separate, but entangled lines of events." Johnny A, author
The thrilling sequel to The Other, L.I.N. an acronym for Living Intelligent Network, the Ai computer system aboard the alien craft discovered in Book 1, follows 19-year-old Kaetlyn O'Sullivan's harrowing adventure as she wakes up from a coma after having been shot in the head by a fanatic. During her comatose state, she penetrates deeper into her past life and discovers she was actually on the alien craft that crashed into the coast of Southern Ireland, not far from the small town where she later grew up, and what her purpose was for coming to Earth at the time. With global powers now going head-to-head to leverage control over Kaetlyn and the craft, the real issue mounts as global warming suddenly unleashes climatic disaster, and the craft, its Ai computer - L.I.N. and Kaetlyn are the only answer to reversing a global meltdown that threatens humanity. A brutally vivid rendering about the future facing us if we do not act now - and a story about one young woman's determination to stop it from happening despite everything, and everyone with other agendas.
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"The sequel to The Other, L.I.N. (acronym for Live-Intelligent-Network) is as grabbing and highly suspenseful as its predecessor in the series. The engaging narrative and non-stop action held my interest from start to finish." - Marina Osipova, author
Three back-to-back events happened within weeks of each other. The first was the launch of the Jupiter Mission. The second event happened within days of that when the North Korean leader decided to fire several nuclear warheads at the U.S.A. – resulting in a retaliatory strike that pushed the world to the edge of global nuclear war. While global leaders were trying to navigate the waters of a world on the brink of an apocalyptic war, a meteor veered from its course and smashed into the Siberian icecaps, filling Earth’s atmosphere with dirt and ice particles, a layer so thick that it blocked the sun's rays and caused a global crash in food production and resultant starvation. It also released microbes, a virus buried for millions of years deep in that icecap, one which attacked the male physiology and not women's, killing off men by the millions, every day.
As the world reeled from this last event, and men were quickly heading towards becoming an endangered species, women were forced to pick up the pieces, and over the years, a formerly patriarchal society had morphed into one entirely dominated by women, where men, those relative few who survived the virus, were relegated to a sub-order, as workers doing menial jobs, outlawed from holding any positions of power ever again as they were seen as the toxic reason that humanity was nearly pushed to the edge of extinction.
16 years after lifting off from Cape Kennedy, the Jupiter Mission, headed by Tanner McNeal, returns and find themselves in a dystopia, where he and his men are placed in worker camps, denied their rights, and forced to succumb to the new order. Facing impossible odds, with so few men to fight with him, Tanner must figure out how to restore balance. Moreover, he has no idea that the President of New America, a brutal dictator known as Lady X, is about to unleash her ultimate weapon, one that will make men entirely redundant and will ensure her dominance - Woman EX.
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"This fast-paced thriller from Real Laplaine was a great read ... it starts with an unusual premise, and twists its way through to an unexpected ending. It has a great plot/story line, and is visually strong and would make a great movie. I enjoyed it a lot. Highly recommended."
23-year-old Jacob Dekker and his partner and secret lover, 21-year-old Jess Andersson, two of the youngest astronauts to ever man the first Mars base, discover an alien artifact hidden beneath its surface. Jess is exposed to something that puts her life at risk, sending Jacob into a flurry of action to save her. Meanwhile, Jacob receives a mysterious message from deep space - not from Earth, but from somewhere else. Jacob finds himself suddenly cast into a bizarre and unbelievable arena; on the one hand, the love of his life is fighting to survive; on the other, he has this bizarre message and whoever is behind that to contend with; and lastly, as word leaks about the alien artifact, it catalyzes another series of events as geopolitical powers try to monopolize whatever technology it contains, all of which threatens the already fragile global state of affairs. A high-concept thriller full of twists and turns, V.O.I.C.E. not only opens up the forum to the question, "Are we alone in the Universe?", it deep-dives into the sociological paradigm of our society, challenging the reader to rethink our place in the Universe.
