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SPARROWHAWK –The Accidental Death of a Dead Man. It was reported as a straightforward road accident. Perhaps it was but the crash scene gave rise to more questions than answers. For Sparrowhawk, this might well be seen as an accidental death; but it couldn’t possibly be the accidental death … of an already dead man … could it? Then there was Merrick Nethercutt. Maybe he was just a frustrated writer and novelist, hungry for literary success … or perhaps a narcissistic psychopath prepared to commit murder in order to claim a place at the table of world prize winning authors. ...

The Unicorn Conspiracy The Year – 1973: The Setting - Africa and the Middle East: The Story - International politics, high finance and personal revenge: The Question – Did it really happen? Triggered by events that take place on Oman’s high plateau at Jebel Akhtar during a cold January in 1959, a friendship is formed; a dangerous friendship capable of giving birth to the beginnings of World War Three. One man, one extraordinary man, is tasked with preventing what some would later describe as a pending Armageddon. A bitter, exiled religious leader is gaining an increasing Islamic ...

It’s the year 2018. North Platte, Lincoln County, USA is a place noted for declining employment prospects at the once famous railroad depot ... and little else. For Ed Ludlum, he could reside anywhere and still earn a good living as a professional ‘Data Miner’ ... someone who can tell you what you’ll shop for next Wednesday at three o’clock, which shop you’ll use ... and what shelf you’ll find it on. However, a powerful, wealthy and politically well connected US based secretive religious sect wish to avail themselves of Ed Ludlum’s unique services ... and they are willing to...

The richest man in the world would have to be dealt with! But first someone would need to rob him of the ‘key’ to a mining empire; an empire built on the dwindling and coveted supply of ‘rare earth’ metals and minerals, without which the world’s hi-tech industries will collapse within weeks. A deviously plotting General Boronovsky, head of the much feared Russian SVR, will send his most accomplished professional assassin to do the job. Her name is Anna Petrov and she is Russian by birth. Her success or failure, in this one crucial mission will decide the economic fate of the three...

This 21st Century thriller may be just up your street if you are already a fan of Patterson, Clancy or Larsson and like a storyline with more twists and turns than a sun bathing rattlesnake. For example, did greed ridden Atlanta billionaire Levi Goldman really understand that once he made a contract with the ‘Yegg’ man … he was committed? A secret vault nearly 200 feet below London’s Bryanston Street, built by the controversial wartime British Special Operations Executive to protect the names of its spies, is now the resting place for other priceless WWII memorabilia … billions of...

With his friend and mentor brutally murdered by a rogue army general, Gary Chase has been assigned a new officer to oversee the development of Project Hermes, a top secret quantum navigational system designed by Chase and his team at GCHQ. Things do not bode well in this fractious relationship from the very start to the point where Chase is considering leaving his military service after the final field testing of Project Hermes. However, a high jacking of the flying test-bed in Dubai sets off a series of events that would change some lives forever and take many, many more before some dark ...

ROSALIND: A Diary of Addiction: An addictive personality … does it really exist? Her sister thought so and she was probably right. This is a short story about Rosalind ... and she is a self confessed addict. But addicted to what? Well, if you asked her she would tell you … just about every damn thing! This intelligent, sometimes amusing and sometimes distressing short story gives air to a tale of woe, the recounting of a journey, one that some would eventually describe as a slippery path downward, an uncontrolled and previously un-navigated spiral leading directly into the open and ...

In this engaging 20th Century, Fictional Historical Drama you will follow the fortunes of the wealthy and titled Benbrook family, owners of the grand Cotswold estate known as Allworth Park. You will witness the state of bruising and distress caused by the suicidal death of their children’s tutor, Cynthia Heywood. Miss Heywood, a young, educated girl, is besotted by the lustful advances of Lady Caroline’s handsome young Godson and professional womanizer, Captain Teddy Danvers. Her relationship with long time lesbian lover Herminie Wilson is under threat as the scandalous activities of ...

The books in this series are: Book 1 ‘DELIVER BY MOONLIGHT’ Book 2 ‘CARLISLE’ Book 3 ‘SINS OF A STRANGER’ All Ebook and Paperback versions are available on-line from Amazon worldwide. DELIVER BY MOONLIGHT A search is on for the long lost illegitimate child of Eve, Madame of Le Chabanais; the most famous Bordello in 1920’s Paris. But with the tragic death of her mentor gnawing at her sanity she moves south to begin a new less complicated life. However, in 1940, the Nazi invasion of France forces her into the murky, underground world of fearless Maquis fighters looking for ...

Buying a seat belt doesn’t mean you have to necessarily crash the car, but someone forgot to tell a determined ex-Inspector Paul Devereaux. A presidential assassination, a complex political conspiracy and the murder of a data manipulating genius named Maddi Brown eventually combine to expose a group of powerful conspirators.Alison Zeigler is a maths prodigy who stumbles across a complex assassination plot when she works out what happened in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, the day President Kennedy is murdered. So what is the link between a recognised mathematical genius, American citizen ...

‘Things You Should Know About Women (Written By A Man)’ is a light-hearted offering that has ended up as a rather difficult subject to categorise. How it is viewed will very much depend upon the gender and particular viewpoint of the reader, as it could possibly be seen as a book promoting marital or partnership harmony or, at the other end of the spectrum, a guide to treating the dangerously infectious inferiority complex of a fully committed male chauvinist. Without too much scrutiny, at first glance, a clue of sorts must be considered to be hidden within the title. This engaging and ...

Learning the Dark Arts When an ambitious Colonel Romanovich Boronovsky takes over the secretive Russian SVR Foreign Security Service, his protégée, Anna Petrov begins a career built upon death and deception, swiftly becoming Russia’s number one contract assassin. However, a restless Anna cannot be at peace with herself until she tracks down the murderer of her lover and father of her stillborn child, Gorky Valentin. Focus and determination Eventually, the need to settle her mind and track down the British assassin known as ‘Ginger’ becomes paramount and she leaves the SVR, setting ...

Em – ‘A day in the life of a northern girl’ ‘Em’ will introduce you to Emily Macklam, a tenacious nineteen year old Hartlepool girl struggling to hold together the remnants of a family, despite attempts to suck the very life blood from her as she works and schemes to keep food on the table. She is forced to manage her young life around a poorly functioning but calculating alcoholic mother and a defiantly delinquent teenage brother, someone determined to plot a life path in partnership with dangerous, criminal company. This determined young lady is therefore left to fight each day ...

The books in this series are: Book 1 ‘DELIVER BY MOONLIGHT’ Book 2 ‘CARLISLE’ Book 3 ‘SINS OF A STRANGER’ All Ebook and Paperback versions are available on-line from Amazon worldwide. CARLISLE It’s London 1946; the war is over ... for some. A notorious Maquis résistance leader with a new identity unexpectedly runs into his ex-wartime mission partner agent Vivette and after a deeply passionate night spent together she reveals she is really Lady Julia Bourchier, Duchess of Millbury now a spymaster for the British MI6. Their parting is sealed with a simple but puzzling note ... ...

The books in this series are: Book 1 ‘DELIVER BY MOONLIGHT’ Book 2 ‘CARLISLE’ Book 3 ‘SINS OF A STRANGER’ All Ebook and Paperback versions are available on-line from Amazon worldwide. A story of truth’s and lies that wind around each other as strands of tightening wire, not caring there are two kinds of truth; one that offers freedom and one that will bury the seeker of it deep beneath an incalculable weight of guilt. SINS OF A STRANGER When Charlotte, the titled Lady Bourchier and Duchess of Millbury is forced to witness, in horrific detail, the murder of her father Glenn ...

He was rejected by an aristocratic father at birth. His early years were spent fighting injustice in one state facility after another. With the necessary emotional fortitude of someone determined to be at the top of his game, Gary Chase evolved from being a questioning but distrustful child into a tough, resilient and highly intelligent member of Her Majesties armed forces. ‘So, where’s the story here?’ you may ask. Gary Chase was the keeper of many secrets. The high security bunker facility at Irton Moor was the place where most of them came to life. Was he simply a much respected ...

Is the brutal assassination in Hong Kong of a respected Marine Insurance executive, carried out days after a violent assault by sinister forces on his family, merely a coincidence - or part of a covert plan running out of control? With a senior and well connected member of the Chinese Mafia taking an interest, someone is now determined to find out! Why has an aerial engagement between super fast fighter jets, high above the disputed territories of the Persian Gulf signalled an early end to the life of a top level government official in Tehran? Perhaps only the head of the notorious Iranian Rev Guard could answer that particularly interesting question.

It’s winter 1987. Mohsen Raza, merciless head of Iran’s feared Revolutionary Guard hunts millionaire oilman Declan Doyle, whose personal undertaking to deliver the Geneva Project … a vital offshore oilfield installation in the Persian Gulf, crucial to the survival of an Iranian economy, weakened by the war with Iraq … has proven worthless. Englishman Doyle, desperate to escape Raza’s retribution and save his company, makes a frantic last throw of a set of dice loaded heavily against him. Evading Raza’s forces he flees the tiny Arab state of Abu Nar, feverishly bent on seeking ...

EPIDEMIC. ‘Billy was not a brutal man … but he was capable of brutal things!’ It all started with a WWII tunnel and a promise from a liar. However, for SS Engineer Major Karl Langer it would end in horror with the cruel mass murder of skeleton souls buried alive in the inky blackness of a tomb from hell. EPIDEMIC is a fast moving political and psychological suspense thriller connecting the horror of secret Nazi projects in WWII with an unstoppable plague of super-rats. This then describes a modern world of corrupt affairs of state and threats of a near unstoppable epidemic disease. It...