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· DOSSIER
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· CASE PENDING · INVESTIGATIVE FICTION · SINCE 2020 · John G Lesley
SUBJECT: LESLEY, JOHN G. ALIAS: "The Author" KNOWN LOCATIONS: Scotland · Canada OCCUPATION: Thriller novelist (fmr. academic) OUTPUT: 08 novels · 02 series · ongoing

Investigative thrillers from a writer who means it.

EXHIBIT A ↓
E-001 ONE MISTAKE · 2026
// OPENING LINE

"The electricity went out. The cell phones stopped working. Planes dropped from the sky."

◉ REC · LAT 43.6532° N · LONG 79.3832° W · TORONTO · EIGHT VOLUMES ON RECORD · TWO SERIES ACTIVE · ◉ REC · LAT 43.6532° N · LONG 79.3832° W · TORONTO · EIGHT VOLUMES ON RECORD · TWO SERIES ACTIVE
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John G Lesley
BORNScotland
LIVESCanada
PRIORMedical researcher
DEBUT2020
VOLUMES08

Educated in an unforgiving school system in Scotland, John G Lesley was told he'd never get to university.

He proved them wrong and then some. After over thirty years in Canadian academia — publishing extensively on medical research and winning numerous awards — he gets a chance to finally explore a different kind of writing.

Join him as Barry Mackay comes face to face with some of the world's injustices.

// NOTED

"He writes the way an investigator writes — looking for the detail everyone else missed."

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FORM 06-NL · REV 2026

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