<p><b>Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction<br>Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)</b></p><p>Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has written can prepare you for <i>Mr. Jones</i>.</p> <p>Emmett Jones is adrift. Having firebombed civilians as a pilot during World War II, Emmett searches for something to cling to when life loses focus. Post-war, he becomes compulsively drawn to John Norfield, a former POW who has found his focus in communism.</p> <p>Set in a time of rampant paranoia, <i>Mr. Jones</i> peels back the veneer of Canadian politics to reveal a nation willing to sacrifice its own. It is a fearful time, a time of 'peace' at the onset of the nuclear age.</p> <p>Emmett&#39;s existence comes under scrutiny. His relationship with Norfield makes him a target of security forces. His marriage, his job, even his child are the target of investigation. And as the nuclear arms race heats up, Mr. Jones sets himself on a path that will risk the lives of everyone he holds dear.</p> <p>Evoking the classic works of le Carré and Greene, Sweatman&#39;s novel is a shattering exploration of a past where world governments threaten annihilation while training housewives in the proper techniques for sweeping up radioactive dust.</p>