The Banting Enigma: The Assassination of Sir Frederick Banting

by William R. Callahan

1941. Wartime Newfoundland. Keeping vigil on the easternmost point of North America, and providing a strategic haven to battle-ready U.S. troops during World War II, the island colony of Newfoundland... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894463706
• ISBN13: 9781894463706
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Flanker Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

History or fiction?

This is a novel with a strong historical undercurrent. Situated mostly in Newfoundland during the Second World War, this novel takes some historical facts, particularly the death of Nobel Prize winner Sir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, in a plane crash on his way to England to pressure the UK government to develop biologoical weapons, and constructs a story wherein Banting is assassinated by the Nazis.