The Meta Quest

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2025

ISBN-13: 9782898094514

Charles Durant, a young autistic man, is murdered under disturbing circumstances on the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday. He was fatally struck by a poisoned dart while seated on his makeshift “throne” in the loft above his mother Jeannine Durant’s detached garage. Charles was a cryptocurrency broker, a seasoned Bitcoin investor, and an avid traveler of the virtual world.<br>Charles worked for Clear Sentence, a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The company had recently come under intense scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following a surge of complaints from novice investors. It was suspected of violating U.S. laws against fund manipulation and of blindly enabling money laundering operations.<br>Devastated by her son’s death, Jeannine turns to Major Maximilien Le Gardeur, a former Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, to uncover the truth behind the mysterious murder. Renowned for his international investigative work with organizations such as NATO and INTERPOL, Maximilien now takes on this case in the realm of Web 3.0. As a second murder occurs under similar circumstances the race is on to stop the killing. He teams up with Manoé Duvalier, a brilliant and eccentric whiz kid obsessed with cutting-edge communication technologies. From Quebec to Paris, and on to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, their investigation unravels an unexpected alliance.<br><br>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br><br><b>Paul BISSON</b> is a Canadian author from Quebec. An international communications consultant, Paul Bisson has worked around the world as a television director, federal civil servant, and former director of the Canadian Pavilion at world expos. He has also teaches university courses in communications<br><br><br>