The Books
A COVERT WAR
(2010 and Paper Back 2011)Marcus Blake's ramshackle security agency has no clients to speak of until Susan Ellis walks into his office and asks him to help find her brother who has gone missing in Afghanistan. In that moment, Marcus' world is turned upside down and he is plunged into a covert war where arms and drugs are traded by renegades within the CIA. In this world, powerful men who hold high office are tracked by the mysterious Sir Giles Cavendish and sudden, violent death is the certain price of failure. Now, in his quest to find Susan's brother, Marcus faces terror and betrayal in a murky world where one cannot easily tell a friend from a foe.
THE SHADOW of the WOLF
(1984 and 2010 in Large Print)It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland, a German commando unit lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Doenitz to find a missing U boat captain who holds the secrets to Britain's new Centimetric radar. The Islanders, survivors of a once thriving whaling community, know the existence of the submarine commander from a pre-war association, but deny that existence. Schafer knows they are lying and his search for the secrets to Britain's new weapon unravels a patchwork of intrigue, guilt and shame. In a shattering race against time, all that stands between success and failure for Schafer is the tenacious courage of two young people, Billie and Ailie. And an old whale catching boat, the Nordcaper.
HELLS GATE (2007)It's 1898, in British East Africa. Reuben Cole finds himself torn between battling to save his son from the evil slave markets of Mombassa and foiling the murderous plans of the Ugandan king, Mwanga. Added to this mix of torment and intrigue are the exceptional rains and volcanic disturbances beneath Lake Naivasha, plus the threat to the railway camp at Nairobi by 10,000 armed Masai tribesmen. Left to defend the camp and its inhabitants, Major Kingsley Webb faces defeat as the 250 soldiers under his command are severely outnumbered. The conflict also touches the life of the lovely Hannah Bowers, as events pitch Reuben and Kingsley into a struggle for survival and for Hannah's love.
THE EAGLES COVENANT
(2007) Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen who controls an enormous industry covering most aspects of everyone's lives. The key to controlling his organisation is a week-old baby boy and Franz Molke, leader of the People's Party in Germany, aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant.But the kidnap fails although the baby disappears and Conor Lenihan, an ex-IRA terrorist and ex-SAS soldier, escapes a double-cross and violent death. Now he is to work with Joanna, the infant's mother, in a desperate fight to thwart Molke's plan for a new Europe. But can Lenihan succeed?
THE
DEVILS TRINITY (2008 and 2009 in Large Print)Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland.Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's associate, Helen, and together they are sucked into a murderous mixture of kidnap, Caribbean voodoo, nuclear weapons and the secret world of the C.I.A. Marsham is forced to work with Khan knowing that the penalty for his own failure will be death. Now America's security forces face a race against time to stop Khan destroying millions of lives.
THE THIRD SECRET(2009)The Third Secret of our Lady of Fatima is removed illegally from the Vatican vaults and replaced with a bible scripture in 1941. That scripture is then shipped out with a fortune in Vatican gold, which goes missing in the war-torn Sahara desert. Twenty years after the war, the whereabouts of the gold comes to light. The Vatican want their gold returned but know nothing of the document. Now there is set in motion a chain of violent events that involve the Italian Mafia, an ex British Army captain and the French Foreign Legion. Can the Roman Catholic Church avoid being brought into disrepute?
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SLOPE (1980 HB, 2010 in Paper Back and KINDLE in 2011)North Slope is a barren desert of ice in Alaska that stretches from the Brooks Mountains to the Beaufort Sea, frozen during the winter clear to the North Pole. It is in this wilderness that the Fyffe Oil Company struggles in its search for oil. Time and money are running out; a man has been killed on the rig; suspicion and fear are rampant.
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