Paul Vitols: 4 books

Welcome to the Latvia Hotel, Riga’s only high-rise and the pinnacle of three-star luxury in this Baltic republic. The year is 1982, and here young Canadian traveler Curtis Jansons discovers that even a small serving of Soviet hospitality comes with a heaping side order of bureaucracy. But this time,...

Sixteen-year-old John Pulkis faces disaster: he’s got two tickets to the Doobie Brothers concert at the Vancouver Coliseum in eight days—and he’s lost them! It’s not about the money, although that was plenty—fourteen dollars, a month’s allowance. No, he needs those tickets, for only they...

On New Year's Eve, 1990, Vancouver hypnotherapist Philip Dozier, while treating shy, neurotic science student Greg Brodie, inadvertently leads his client to a traumatic memory--from twenty-five centuries ago. In doing so, he opens a Pandora's jar of life-changing consequences. For it emerges...

John Pulkis, last seen aged 16 in The Thought Dial, is now 20 and traveling the backroads of Europe in a 1970 Volkswagen Westfalia with his friend Stephen. The boys are footloose and fancy free—or are they? When they discover that they have run low on funds, John suddenly finds himself in a spiritual...