My Canadian Exile - Edward Charles Bagley - Bog

Possessed of the four "Cs"-right Color, right Class and right aCCent-attorney Bob McKenzie has lived comfortably in the States for so long he has to remind himself he's still Canadian. But when taken briefly into custody on an immigration technicality his destiny intersects with that of a nine-year old girl of the "tinted persuasion," and life unexpectedly goes sideways. Troubled by her plight - her illegal Quebecois mother to be deported, the girl, Annie, a natural born American citizen, placed in foster care, too late McKenzie learns their fates have been braided together, and lax supervision, an unlocked delivery door and the little girls' desperation lead to an escape. McKenzie follows, shots are fired, and suddenly the unlikely duo are on the run from all the power a paranoid government can bring to bear...