LINDEN MacINTYRE is the bestselling author of many award-winning books, including The Long Stretch, Causeway, The Bishop's Man, Why Men Lie, Punishment, The Only Café and The Wake. A distinguished broadcast journalist, MacIntyre was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and grew up in Port Hastings, Cape Breton. He spent twenty-four years as the co-host of The Fifth Estate and has won ten Gemini awards for his broadcast work. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, the journalist and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.