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Title: Michael D. Jacquard’s Cold Ground Brings a Small-Town Thriller to MIBF 2026

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 3rd Oct 2026 - MIBF, the Philippines’ longest-running and largest book fair, returned under the 2026 theme “Get Lit: Reading in a New Light,” with over 160 exhibitors across two floors of the SMX Convention Center. The fair’s official schedule listed over forty-nine special events and activities, including author signings, the School World segment for educators, and the Book Development Association of the Philippines’ Gintong Aklat Awards.Jacquard’s novel echoes that theme by emphasizing seeing a familiar place—and the people within it—differently. Jack Decker, a retired US Army Special Forces and CIA Ground Branch operative, has spent fourteen months trying to settle into the quiet of the fictional town of Garrison Falls, Vermont. His new routine includes river walks with his rescued dog, Milo, renovating his house, and occasional stops at the local hardware store—the kind of small-town life where arriving without a past might have been possible. Milo’s discovery of a body along the Garrison River during a routine morning walk ends that quiet.The case pulls Decker back into habits he moved to Vermont to leave behind—running plates without official authority, reading a room the way he once read a battlefield—and toward Cascade Supply Solutions, a newly arrived Delaware LLC operating out of a struggling mill town that appears, at first, to be an ordinary business. As the investigation widens, the question of who died on the riverbank becomes inseparable from a slower, quieter question Decker has spent a year avoiding: what happened to an intelligence asset named Farid, lost years earlier in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, and what responsibility Decker still carries for what happened.Alongside the case, the novel tracks a smaller, mor...

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