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To Michael, who knows "the Secret," with love and gratitude.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank Nieve Jones and the crew at Optus Local Vision;
Janna M. Dieleman and colleagues at Delta Cable

TV;

and Lawrence McDonald for providing information and insight into the
world of television.

Thanks go to Fraser Valley potato grower Robert Swenson, and to Ruby
Friesen for interviewing him Thanks also to John Friesen, whose
pursuits include farming as well as sailing, for information and
inspiration.

Joan Hunt told me all about the trials of broken hips, and Cheryl, from
the Department of Customs and Immigration, explained the intricacies of
work permits and immigration.

Special thanks to Ghislaine Jauselon for correcting my French, and for
sharing colorful stories of life in Tahiti. Any technical errors in
this book are mine.

CHAPTER ONE

MONDAY MORNING AND Burton O'Rourke had a lot on his mind. Just when
he'd thought his life couldn't get any better, it had suddenly turned
very, very bad.

Torrential rain drummed on Vancouver's gray and soggy downtown core,
beating an unrelenting tattoo on Burton's big black umbrella and
hampering his long-legged stride down Burrard Street. Although the
weather matched his mood, it was incidental to his problems.

Roughly forty-eight hours ago, his maternal grandfather, the person he
loved most in the world after his mother, had been alive and feeding
his flock of prizewinning Rhode Island Reds. Sometime before lunch on
Saturday, Granddad's heart had seized while he was lifting a heavy