Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Canadian author's fourth novel. Eastern philosophy and legal thinking meet in this mystery in which Max Macarthur faces the greatest challenge of his young career when he must serve as defense counsel to cult leader Shiva Ram Acharya. In a grisly echo of Jonestown, 20 members of a cult are found savagely executed in an isolated island on Canada's west coast, and Acharya, who was there, claims to have amnesia when questioned about the events.
