“Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends” by Jacques R. Roy is now available for purchase
“Was I running away? This was my habitual response to betrayal; I did not yet know that such painful experiences could be great teachers. Or was I setting out, without knowing it, on the road to a meaningful life?”
-an excerpt from the book
A gripping life story of a Canadian is written in the book “Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends” by Jacques R. Roy, which is proudly published under Author Reputation Press and is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Jacques Roy is the second child in a French-Canadian family from Kirkland Lake, Ontario. His lifelong passion for justice and authentic independence for the former colonies of southern Africa, particularly his “adopted country,” Angola, has kept him actively engaged in Canada and abroad.
Jacques R. Roy received his diploma from the Northern Ontario Institute of Technology in 1965 and began working as a plant engineer for Bell Telephone in Montreal in the same year. He also went to Tanzania as a volunteer with CUSO at the Institute of Technology.
“Don’t Quit-Don’t Cry” is the compelling life tale of a Canadian.
August 1967: Canada celebrates its centennial; Jacques R. Roy studies African history and Kiswahili in Montreal. With a deep sense of justice, freedom, and liberty, Jacques joins CUSO as a teacher and leaves for Dar es Salaam. Tanzania.
Jacques meets Dr. Agostinho Neto, President and Founder of the MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola). Dr. Neto requires radio links. Jacques is capable of resolving this issue. All of this will necessitate full secrecy.
- April 1968: Dr. Neto invites Jacques to the eastern Angolan front. He likes the radio results and sends Roy to mobilize Canadian public opinion.
- 1970: South Africa’s ANC external leaders, Hani and Mbeki, ask Jacques to create a spy unit. Cover: a love story with missions worthy of James Bond and Indiana Jones.
- 1974: Jacques brings Dr. Neto to Ottawa’s parliamentary committee. Dr. Neto asks for the liberation of six nations from “minority”.
- November 11, 1975: Independence. The CIA steps in.
- 1998: Unstoppable, Roy goes to Angola. Mission: Stop the civil war. The plan: Follow the blood diamonds.
- Results: Canada’s UN Ambassador Robert Fowler visits Africa and writes the Fowler Report. The UN imposes sanctions, and blood diamond funds dry up.
- April 2002: The civil war ends.
- 2008: Veterans of Angola Liberation (LIVEGA) induct Jacques Roy, card number 00A.
“Don’t Quit – Don’t Cry: …After 25,000 Weekends” by Jacques R. Roy is now available for purchase via ARP bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/don-t-quit-don-t-cry-after-25-000-weekends.