"Truth is timeless. You can hide it, but you can't erase it."
Réal Laplaine
Author of high-concept thrillers
"The truth is the only thing that nobody will believe."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell, author of 1984
I write high-concept thrillers, literary fiction, action-packed thrill rides, weaved around issues affecting our world today, which pull back the curtain to expose deeper truths behind the facade of mediocrity, the lies and stories we are fed to keep us from seeing the real picture. As far as literary fiction goes, I like to delve into what makes my characters tick, giving the reader a closer sense of identity with them and what motivates them, what their inner demons or the voice of their soul is saying. I am a true believer that we are, individually and collectively speaking, capable of producing a great culture where war, racism, inequality and the insane imbalance of wealth and resources in the world are largely things of the past, and where the collective and individual social consciousness is raised to a level where society focuses on equality, potential, creativity, tolerance and love - the true elements of advance. There are billions of galaxies out there beyond our tiny planet, waiting to be explored, and in them, other races to be met – and to reach them, the road ahead must be paved with the stones of a higher culture, a greater humanity, something we are capable of achieving if we push the edges of the box we find ourselves living in and reach for those stars.
Born in French-Canada, and later growing up in Ontario, Canada, Réal Laplaine's sense of adventure sent him on many bicycling trips at a young age. At sixteen he was flying single engine planes and by eighteen, he and his best friend hitchhiked across Canada into some of the remotest parts of the nation, to the Yukon and Alaska, a trip that profoundly changed him. After reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach, he set himself on a journey to find deeper meaning in life, a journey, after a long career in marketing, recruiting and sales, landed him where he truly wanted to be - a writer. Since his first book, The Buffalo Kid, he has published fourteen other books and sees no end to that road - at least until the road comes to an end.
For centuries, humanity has accepted different beliefs and theories about Creation and the Universe, the greatest mysteries about our existence, but what if those ideas, beliefs and theories are wrong?
Could you accept another truth?
Are you willing to look?
V.O.I.C.E. challenges all the paradigms and invites you to step outside the box.
Raised in the crucible of a violent family, Keeno McCole, part Canadian Indigenous Indian, part French, part Irish, grew up with a passion to stop criminals. His weapon of choice - a throwing knife - a gift from the uncle who taught him at the age of seven, how to protect himself against the monsters in the world – and criminals would come to feel its sting.
Keeno loves just one woman, and he dances with death and he bleeds like any man - but he makes damn sure that the criminals bleed more!
