de Hoog, Adrian

Adriande Hoog was educated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Oxford. He spent thirty years working as in a diplomat for Canada in countries as varied as Kenya and Germany.

As Canada’s consul-general in Berlin shortly after the Berlin wall came down, he witnessed the enormous social, political, economic and cultural changes sweeping over a city which was always restless and a center of change.

It is the turbulent Berlin of the early 1990s that provides the backdrop for de Hoog's first novel, The Berlin Assignment.

De Hoog has retired from foreign service and is now pursuing a career as writer. He lives in Ottawa.
 

Selected Bibliography
The Berlin Assignment. St. John's, NL: Breakwater Books, 2006

Borderless Deceit. St. John's, NL: Breakwater Books, 2007

A virus destroys the communication network of the Canadian diplomatic service.  Implicated in the investigation are Carson Pryce, a reclusive, moody intelligence analyst, and Rachel Dunn, a brilliant diplomat with a glowing humanitarian track record. 

The plot in Borderless Deceit skips easily from Ottawa to Vienna, from Berlin to Alexandria and from Transylvania to Kenya.  The action takes place in a world where privacy has disappeared, where hackers circle each other in cyberspace, and where a mouse click can orchestrate deceit in faraway places. Is there space in this for a rekindling of humanity’s enduring values?

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