MY COLD WAR

On a day in the spring of 1956 my parents dressed my brother and me in brand new outfits my mother put on makeup and her best camel-hair coat and we all went for a drive in the countryside near Montreal. We took along our puppy Smokey wrapped in a blanket in case he peed on the seats of our new car. Not long before my father had agreed to enrol me in a special program whose directors were very interested in bright little girls like me. So begins Ann Diamond's terrifying tale of growing up in Canada during the Cold War -- an era when secrecy ran rampant ruining careers and lives. This is the true story of one family caught in a dangerous web of deception. Ann Diamond is an award-winning Canadian writer.