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The Ghost of HillCrest

By Bungen Lee

The Ghost of HillCrest

By Bungen Lee

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In the shadow of a forgotten massacre, one man learns that the only way to fight a system is to become a ghost within it.June 19, 1914. The Hillcrest Mine explodes, burying 189 men. Leon Hui crawls from the rubble, his body scarred and his soul weighted with a survivor's guilt that curdles into a cold, clear purpose. While a world marches to war, he retreats into the silence of libraries, studying the machinery of power-not to repair it, but to sabotage it from within.Five years later, as post-war tensions erupt into the Calgary General Strike, Leon emerges from the shadows. He is not a union leader or a street-corner radical. He is a phantom: forging documents, leaking secrets, orchestrating acts of precise, invisible leverage. To the strikers, he is a rumor-the "Ghost of Hillcrest." To the city's powerful elite, he is a destabilizing enigma. To a relentless police inspector, he is the most dangerous kind of criminal: an intellectual one.From the suffocating darkness of the mines to the violent chaos of Bloody Saturday, from a clandestine printing press to a stark prison cell, Leon wages a solitary war. But is he a vigilante seeking justice for the dead, or a mastermind engineering chaos? And when the smoke clears and the battle is lost, what remains of a man who traded his life to become a legend?A gripping, intelligent, and relentlessly atmospheric historical thriller, The Ghost of Hillcrest weaves a tale of personal trauma, ideological warfare, and the fragile seeds of social change. It is the story of how the most powerful revolutions are sometimes fought not in the streets, but in the silent spaces between.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
308
Release Date:
2026-01-05
Publication Date:
2026-01-05
Publisher:
Bungen Lee
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798233190124
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
372 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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