Standalone books by Glen Munro, rebuilt as crawlable static documents with full chapter text.
A Soviet nuclear submarine vanishes in 1968—while the USSR searches in vain, the United States secretly finds it and launches one of the most ambitious covert operations in history to recover it from three miles beneath the Pacific. Neither Confirm Nor Deny reveals the human cost, engineering gamble, and lasting legal legacy behind the CIA’s audacious attempt to steal K-129 from the ocean floor.
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When a brilliant university student vanishes from Seattle’s Montlake district, veteran detective Alyssa Paige and her tech-savvy team are pulled into a labyrinth of ancient rituals and modern deception. What begins as a missing persons case quickly spirals into a harrowing battle against a clandestine society hidden beneath the city’s prestigious halls.
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The Battle of the Bodega is a darkly witty historical drama that recounts the true, disastrous 1625 expedition to Cádiz. When King Charles I and the flamboyant Duke of Buckingham send a fleet of 100 leaky ships and 15,000 "dregs of society" to sack Spain, they expect a glorious victory in the vein of Sir Francis Drake. Instead, the soldiers—led by the relatable and wildly unlucky Thomas Pipple—encounter a comedy of errors fueled by "weapons-grade incompetence," "sentient" rotten beef, and a catastrophic lack of water. It is a haunting yet humorous exploration of what happens when high-stakes ambition meets low-level logistical failure.
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Apothecary. Alchemist. Heretic. Survivor. Livia Moretti lives a double life in 1570s Florence, dispensing healing herbs by day and practicing forbidden alchemy by night. When she is framed for the high-profile poisoning of a noblewoman—using the same signature toxins that destroyed her father a decade earlier—Livia must strike a desperate bargain with a zealous Inquisitor. To clear her name, she must navigate a web of court intrigue and ancient secret societies to hunt down a master poisoner who has weaponized her family’s legacy into a nightmare of pure agony.
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Beneath Montreal’s streets, something ancient has awakened. When terrifying apparitions and deadly anomalies erupt across the city’s Metro system, a renowned investigative team is drawn into a subterranean nightmare where history, tragedy, and the supernatural collide. As the line between science and evil blurs, survival becomes uncertain—and some secrets refuse to stay buried.
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Enigma is a gritty, first-person wartime thriller told through the eyes of Alan Turing as he’s pulled from Cambridge into the fog-choked secrecy of Bletchley Park. With the Atlantic bleeding ships by the day, Turing and a small band of brilliant misfits race to crack the German Enigma machine—building screaming mechanical “ghosts” of their own, chasing breakthroughs that feel less like triumph and more like dread. But when the code finally breaks, a darker war begins: the cruel arithmetic of who gets saved, who gets sacrificed, and what a nation does to the man who helped save it.
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"Appreciate your cooperation." When a man posing as an OPP officer begins knocking on motorhome doors along the lonely stretches of Highway 17, he isn't looking for registration—he's looking for victims. ERRATA is a chilling procedural thriller where a killer’s obsession with "order" and "lists" meets a small-town constable’s determination to break the cycle. In the deep woods of the North Shore, a porch light isn't a welcome sign; it’s a target.
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Frank’s Confessions "Just Frank" was a wheelman—a ghost on the roads who moved hooch, cash, and bodies for the Perri-Starkman empire. In this sprawling first-person account, Frank reveals the bloody evolution of Canadian organized crime. From the mid-19th-century Markham Gang of "thieving farmers" to the terrifying extortion of the Black Hand and the post-war rise of the international heroin trade, Frank's Confessions is a gritty, century-long tour through the dark heart of the Great White North.
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Legends of the Wild West by synexmedia.com offers a groundbreaking, intimate look at the 19th-century frontier through the "voices" of its most iconic figures. From Wyatt Earp and Buffalo Bill to Belle Starr and Sitting Bull, this collection utilizes raw, authentic dialects to let the legends narrate their own lives. Part historical account and part personal memoir, it’s a vivid resurrection of the untamed spirit that defined a nation.
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A "city boy" joins a crew of grizzled veterans for a 1989 fly-in fishing trip to Ontario’s Elbow Lake. What starts as a peaceful quest for trophy lake trout quickly devolves into a hilarious gauntlet of elaborate pranks, soapy snacks, and "Liar’s Dice" high-stakes. Reel Men: Go North is a nostalgic, witty look at the chaotic rituals of male bonding in the Canadian wilderness, proving that the best stories aren't about the fish you catch, but the people you're stuck on a boat with.
Open bookIn May 1990, a motley crew of friends and family embarks on their annual pilgrimage to the Canadian Shield for a week of fishing, gambling, and camaraderie. From Walt’s pristine new RV to the blackfly-infested shores of Elbow Lake, Reel Men Go North is a humorous, true-to-life account of the bonds forged in the wild. It’s a story of "beer-induced amnesia," the art of the bluff in Liar’s Dice, and the enduring spirit of friendship that keeps a group coming back to the water year after year.
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In the pristine canals of Copenhagen, some crimes are too sophisticated for the police and too cruel for the courts. Tatiana Morozova is a brilliant defense attorney by day, but she knows the law is a blunt instrument that often misses the mark. When the system fails, she balances the ledger herself, engineering "accidental" ends for the city's most untouchable predators. But as a relentless detective begins to hear the dissonance in her perfect crimes, Tatiana must decide how much of her own soul she is willing to sink to keep the city’s silent balance.
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In 1928 Burin, Newfoundland—then the Dominion of Newfoundland—the sea gives and the sea takes. When a strange tremor rolls underfoot and the harbour behaves like it’s holding its breath, the Fahey family’s hard-won life of salt fish, storm work, and neighbourly loyalty is suddenly measured against something far bigger than any gale. Whisper’s from the Waves: The Salt of Burin is a fierce coastal survival story about love, loss, and a community that refuses to break.
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Clarence Godfrey: Land and Sea is a sweeping historical drama inspired by true events of the Great Lakes. Set against the catastrophic White Hurricane of 1913, it tells the powerful story of a seasoned lake sailor whose life is forever changed by nature’s mercy and cruelty—on the water and at home. It is a testament to survival, fate, and the unbreakable strength of family.
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The Empress & The Norwegian is a haunting historical novel inspired by the real 1914 sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland. Told through the eyes of a young girl caught between survival and loss, it is a deeply human story of innocence, catastrophe, and the fragile hope that endures in the aftermath of tragedy.
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When an avalanche tears through a remote mountain pass, the Edwards family is thrust into a battle against nature, fate, and the fragile bonds that hold them together. The Edwards is a stark historical tale of survival, loss, and the moments that define who we become when the ground gives way beneath us.
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Dominion is a sweeping, fact-grounded narrative of how Canada became Canada—tracing the country from Indigenous nations before European contact to Confederation, expansion, and the long, patient march toward full sovereignty. It’s a brisk, big-picture history of a nation shaped by compromise, conflict, and unfinished promises.
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The Prophet & The Unseen Reckoning is a harrowing true-crime narrative that traces the rise and collapse of Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids cult—an intimate, unflinching account of how faith was weaponized, lives were destroyed, and justice arrived only after irreversible loss.
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In 1755, imperial ambition shattered a people’s way of life. The 1755 Acadian Expulsion recounts the forced removal of thousands of Acadians from Nova Scotia, tracing a devastating chapter of Canadian history marked by loss, endurance, and the unbreakable will to survive.
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The Burning of Pointe Sainte-Anne is a haunting historical narrative set along the Wolastoq in 1759, where Acadian settlers and the Wəlastəkwiyik people are caught in the path of British colonial violence. Through the eyes of Marie Thibodeau, the story captures the destruction of a river community, the terror of displacement, and the enduring memory carried by the land itself during the Great Upheaval.
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Scorching Trials: The Conner Gallagher Story is a gripping historical survival epic set against the Great Fire of Miramichi in 1825. As drought, wildfire, and fate collide, one family’s courage is tested against nature’s most unforgiving force. Rooted in love, sacrifice, and resilience, this is a powerful story of endurance on the Canadian frontier.
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By Fire and By Voice follows the fierce and rebellious Julie d’Aubigny, a young woman trapped within the rigid expectations of 17th-century French society. Gifted with both a sword and a voice that refuses silence, she battles court intrigue, betrayal, and forced conformity while forging her own dangerous legend.
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In the chaos after the American Revolution, Loyalist widow Abigail flees with her son Thomas to the wild shores of New Brunswick, where survival demands more than grit—it demands sacrifice. The Price of Loyalty is a sweeping historical novel of exile, endurance, and the brutal cost of keeping faith when the world turns on you.
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Lost in the Ozarks is a tense survival thriller that follows a couple fleeing their past who find themselves drawn deep into an isolated wilderness where the rules of the outside world no longer apply.
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One hundred thousand men, two empires, and a river of madness. In the autumn of 1788, Sergeant István Varga and the 2nd Hussars find themselves rotting in the mud of Karánsebes, dying of disease faster than Turkish steel. When a routine scouting mission across the Timiș River turns into a hunt for a ghost-like enemy, István must navigate a fractured army where the greatest threat isn't the Ottoman Sultan—it's the encroaching insanity of his own side and the "Devil’s playthings" waiting in the dark.
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In the fogbound fishing town of Cumberland Bay, residents begin finding photographs of themselves—taken through their own windows at night. As fear spreads and the images grow more personal, the town realises the threat isn’t just being watched… it’s being known.
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The Larder is a claustrophobic maritime horror novel inspired by the true Belgica Antarctic Expedition, where isolation, hunger, and buried violence turn a ship’s hold into a place that remembers everything.
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