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Dave Wickenden grabs life by the reins and doesn't let go. Before joining the Canadian Fire Service, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces. He's as comfortable with a rocket launcher as with a fire hose. His protagonists often find themselves enlisted as rescuers and crisis managers. Like them, Dave has knelt beside dead bodies. Using CPR and a defibrillator, he has saved six lives.

At home in Canada, Dave loves to cook, read and draw. He ran his own home-based art business, creating highly detailed wood-and-paper burnings, a technique called "pyrography." One of his pictures of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien graces the walls of Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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Average rating: 4.38 · 208 ratings · 129 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mad Dog: A Novel 4.08 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Defense of Innocence 4.62 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masks by M. Dalto (Goodreads Author), Myra Fiacco, Marlena Frank (Goodreads Author) 4.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Home Front 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homegrown 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Heaven's Sake by David Wickenden, Dave Wickenden, David Wickenden (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flicker: Stories of Inner Flame by Chris Barnham (Goodreads Author), Deana Birch (Goodreads Author), Salena Casha (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sell Your Book, Strategies to Finding New Readers and Selling More Books it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remnants: Volume One by Stephen Coghlan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dave Wickenden rated a book it was amazing No Trace by Michael Trant (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Gabe Ahern has been hiding in the outback, hunting wild dogs for a farm/tourist camp, ever since taking down a human smuggling conspiracy. With a new group of city folks wanting to experience life in the outback, Gabe feels that someone is planning s ...more
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Dave Wickenden rated a book really liked it The 9th Man (Luke Daniels #1) by Steve Berry (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Luke Daniels, a young Magellan Billet agent that worked with Cotton Malone, gets a frantic call from an old friend, Jillian Stein. People have killed her grandfather and are searching for an old rifle which might have been used in the Kennedy assassi ...more
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Dave Wickenden liked T.M. Drechny's review of The Home Front: "Page one captures the reader and doesn't let go until the end. The reader meets 95 year old Donald Wilson immediately after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer as he tries to process and accept the fact that he has months to live. Despite his age, he is" Read more of this review »
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Dave Wickenden rated a book it was amazing The Call of Death by R.J. Garcia (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Imagine waking up in a hospital room in the future, knowing the name of a serial killer who has killed those close to you. Then waking up to find that your dreams might help you change the fate of you, your friends and the killer. Sounds wickedly sca ...more
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Dave Wickenden rated a book really liked it The 6:20 Man (The 6:20 Man, #1) by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Baldacci brings us a new protagonist. Meet Travis Devine. Former Ranger with a dark past. Travis has left the military and now tries to find a place in the financial world to please his father. When a woman Devine is found dead in his office building ...more
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Dave Wickenden rated a book really liked it Hunting Time by Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Colter is hired to find and protect a brilliant engineer, and her daughter who has disappeared into hiding. Colter determines that the women is running from her ex-husband who has been released from prison and looks to settle a score with his wife. B ...more
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Dave Wickenden rated a book really liked it The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2) by Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The sequel to The Silent Corner continues the story of rogue FBI Agent, Jane Hawk and her fight to shut down a conspiracy that is systematically taking over people’s minds with new technology. When a easy-going school teacher crashes her car into a b ...more
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