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Welcome to Michael Parker's official website. You can find information about me, my books, buy them, read pages from them, contact me and yes, even follow me on twitter (@Michael_Parker). I'm attempting to move bravely into the new, online social world, encouraged by my non-luddite sons. Who knows I may even get to enjoy it. So go ahead and follow me if you wish but please do enjoy my site. It changes often, so please come back regularly for updates. But let me first introduce my first published novel which is now available in paperback...
THE BOY FROM BERLIN
LATEST HARDBACK TO BE PUBLISHED AVAILABLE NOW!
Gus Mason strides towards the Presidency of the
United States of America. But
what secret, spawned in the Berlin Bunker can stop him? And what nightmare
is it that haunts the ageing Gunter Haman in Germany? From the Nazi death
camps to the steps of the Whitehouse, Haman and Jacob Demski, heir to the
Jewish Mafia Empire, unravel a mystery that threatens the very fabric of
the American way of life. And as Lieutenant Amos, a Newark Police Officer
investigates the supposed suicide of a local senator, his investigations
lead him into the corrupt world that inhabits the underbelly of American
politics, and threatens his own existence and that of his family.
Read more.....
NORTH SLOPE
IN PAPERBACK AND KINDLE
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The inspiration behind this novel was the discovery of oil beneath the frozen
wastes of Alaska in 1968. The discovery was made by the only oil company left
drilling on the Slope: Atlantic Richfield. All the big operators had left and
stored their equipment up at Prudhoe Bay from where they could ship it out once
the warmer weather returned in the spring. Atlantic Richfield were being
financed by BP. The agreement was that the Atlantic Richfield would be absorbed
by BP if they failed to reach the oil. The point about this was that the
geologists knew there was oil beneath the slope, but it was too deep for the
technology that was available at the time (so they thought). One large area in
the North West had been set aside as a U.S. Naval Reserve as a strategic move by
the American Government. Atlantic Richfield named their well
Last Chance. It went down more than
seven thousand feet. Once the oil had been reached, there was a veritable gold
rush, and the North Slope was divided up into sectors and licences granted. This
brought all the big guns back. The rest, as they say is history. One character I
have used in the book is an Innuit Indian called Skookum. This was the name of
the man who discovered gold in Alaska and created the famous gold rush. The oil
strike in 1968 was alluded to as the second gold rush. The research for this
book was quite lengthy, and meant digging into all manner of material to uncover
the little gems that often go missing, or the raw detail of what it takes to
work in such extreme conditions. I learned about Husky dogs and how they are
bred from wolves, and how dangerous they can be. I read of the passage of a
nuclear submarine's voyage beneath the North Pole, and saw remarkable
photographs that would have been difficult to achieve under normal
circumstances. I studied gas exploration at sea, and how the Innuits lived and
their history. So NORTH SLOPE is more than just a thriller; it is a correlation
of a year's research that produced what is an exceptional book.
A COVERT WAR
IN PAPERBACK AND KINDLE
Mini Biography
Michael Parker has been writing stories for as long as he can remember. He is the author of seven published novels, The Devil's Trinity, North Slope, Shadow of the Wolf, Hell's Gate and The Eagle's Covenant. After leaving the Merchant Navy, he served in the Royal Air Force and reached the rank of Chief Technician. He now lives in Spain with his wife, Pat.
