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A Dead Artist Can Make a Good Living: The Adventures of Jonathan Owen

by Rick Thomas

185 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-2111; ISBN 1-4120-7216-6; US$21.74, C$25.00, EUR17.86, £12.50

The story is a fictionalized adventure based on the journeys of the author - a retired roaming bachelor who can't and won't settle down.

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About the Book

The author is a retired cartographer and graphic artist from the Government of British Columbia. He left Canada in his Jeep, Silver Bullet, to live for a time in the tropics of Mexico. There and on his return he wrote the book Jonathan Owen, Silver Bullet and Bank Robber. The Mexican people, black volcanoes, jungle landscape, torrid climate and a 25 year old woman who robbed banks in North Africa, inspired him to write. On his return from Mexico the author embarked on the book A Dead Artist Can Make a Good Living. The author fictionalizes the stories of his experiences into those of his character Jonathan Owen.

In A Dead Artist Can Make a Good Living Jonathan Owen commits a crime in the Muskwa Kitchika district of Northern British Columbia and flees to Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco. In pursuit of him is Constable Jack Garland from the North West Mounted Police Detachment, Fort Nelson, British Columbia,. With the assistance of Interpol and the police forces of the European Union the Officer pursues Jonathan across the south of Europe not realizing he and the rest of the world are part of an elaborate hoax.

Jonathan Owen is 60, full of life and adventure and knew perhaps he will become bored with his retirement when it happens. So through his work as a civil servant in the Government of British Columbia he masterminds, with the help of his daughter, a scheme that will make them both a fortune. On his retirement and his return from Mexico, Jonathan hatches his project.

Jonathan did not realize how demanding, physically and mentally the project would be. Neither did the author who went to the places his character did.

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About the Author

Rick Thomas was born in Cardiff, Wales and immigrated with his parents to Canada in the 1950s. He attended the Vancouver School of Art in the 1960s and made his career in commercial art and marketing. He retired from the Government of British Columbia where he was a cartographer and artist working for the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. With the ministry biologists, botanists, meteorologists and surficial geologist, he mapped the ecological systems of the province.

Rick Thomas is a painter, resident set designer for the Victoria Operatic Society and fitness instructor at the local Y. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia and travels the world writing about his character Jonathan Owen. He is a bachelor with a daughter, Kim. His third book of the adventures of Jonathan Owen will be developed in Cuba in the Spring of 2006.

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