Paperback edition of The Revolution Script —
a fictionalised account by the novelist Brian Moore of key events in Quebec’s October Crisis – the kidnapping by the Quebec Liberation Front of James Cross, the Senior British Trade Commissioner in Montreal, on October 5, 1970 and the murder, a few days later, of Pierre Laporte, Minister of Labour in the Quebec provincial government. It was published in Canada and the United States at the end of 1971. The British newspaper The Sunday Times reproduced excerpts from Moore's book, which was published in the United Kingdom in January 1972.
Pocket Books 78216, 1972. Cover design by David Chestnutt, featuring Marvin.