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Target one
In the wake of 9-11 the United States has with her allies conducted a comprehensive war on terror. Beginning with the occupation of Afghanistan in 2003, splintering and marginalising terror groups through to the identification and arrest of operatives, elimination of cells and organisers to culminate in the raid to capture Osama Bin Laden in May 2011
In all this time the Islamic jihad has suffered reverse after reverse. They may be down but they are not done. Al Qaeda has unfinished business.
Have you ever wondered what REALLY happened to MH370?
The KERMAN RAIDS
Can a deniable operation into a hostile foreign country actually pay off, or is it a suicide mission?
Parachuting into a hostile country in the middle of the night was never going to be a simple thing let alone destroying a drone factory. The worst thing was to bring back evidence of the the missile capability to then get orders to go back and retrieve targeting information.
And this time the enemy would be waiting……
Biggles flies undone
George Talbot is in a pickle. He’s a con-man who has scammed his way from the Mediterranean down through Africa. This time he has been rumbled and is on the run from a failed scam. Pursued by vengeful clients, George has made his escape but he’s in an ancient plane and the pilot has just collapsed. Is this finally the one situation that George can’t wriggle out of?
An Usual Profession
Tanya Jones is given a short notice assignment by her boss at the United Nations Investigations Committee on Human Rights Abuse. (UNICHRA) The assignment is to investigate allegations of commercial oppression in the form of contractual misconduct and the imposition of unacceptable living conditions in a remote mining location.
Accepting the job, Tanya is told that her assignment will take her there and back in just four months. That remote location is Mars. Unknowingly, she is a replacement for her colleague David Wilkie, an implanted CIA operative who dies in a street accident days before he is due to leave. She is then blackmailed by the CIA into taking Willkie’s’ place to spy on the propulsion technology used by the civil organization she will be investigating.
A Law Unto Herself
Commissioner Tanya Jones of the Mars Police is woken early with a report of a mining accident in an outlying crater. On arrival at scene her suspicions are aroused and amongst the tangled wreckage the evidence is reveals the unusual incident as a case of murder. Illicitly modified machinery is set to kill, the question is who modified it, who activated it and why. Peeling back the layers Tanya discovers CIA involvement both in the attempt to discredit her predecessor that brought her to Mars and the murder itself, as a means of covering tracks. Sourcing the method of importation of the trigger mechanism leads Tanya to the uncovering of a diamond smuggling, gun and drug running operation. In finally revealing who and why, Tanya has introduced not only law, but also a court and sentence. She is the law.
The Pittsburgh Pirate
So onto yet another murder, or to be precise, murders. For behind another ‘accidental’ death Tanya Jones has uncovered a series of incidents over the years that point the finger of suspicion at serial killings. With once again no why or who she solicits the help of her father, a detective on the Pittsburgh Police Force to help figure if she has got it right, and if so to solve the crimes. With Pa comes his Sergeant, Les Huntsacker. The guy Tanya was expecting is revealed as Lesley Huntsacker, the third woman to join the Martian colony and the person to tie it all together. For unlike Tanya and her Pa, Les is a fact sifter and the facts make the case. Petty greed and sporting rivalry have turned a mild and unassuming man into a multiple killer. There are not many individuals who really make a difference in a sports team and over the years Jan Kneiper has made sure none of them will spoil his vision.
a Greater Game
The legality recognition of mars is presented to the UN general assembly. Despite American, Chinese and Russians opposition the vote is passed. However, the United States refuses to ratify that recognition, insisting that US interests and law precedes any other. The Americans and UCC are at odds, and for a reason.
The debate on space, overtly a method of policing and enforcing the UN 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space grinds to a halt and Commissioner Tanya Jones has to go back to Mars with an unfinished job.
AN ACCIDENT WAITING
When the Interplanetary Transport Craft Excelsior experiences an inflight engine explosion an investigation into the cause is instigated. Lacking a Transportation Safety Board, Commissioner Tanya Jones must undertake the enquiry. Like all incidents the investigation takes time to eliminate a number of dead ends.
When IPTC Excerptor crashes, it’s a different matter. That an external influence has interfered with the craft becomes clear quite quickly. How, who and why are the questions Tanya has to discover.
An Afghan Affair
A dramatic romance full of emotion: loyalty, fear, anger, distrust, prejudice, admiration and love to name but a few. For Pamela Shawe, joining an aid team providing help to remote villages in a strife torn country provides her with a purpose to life and the family bonds she lacked in the suburban rut back home. It’s no easy thing to fit into an all male team in a male dominated society but Pam has shown her worth, in the times to come she will have to cope with more than even this assignment bargained for.
an african assignation
Joanne Fletcher is a production analyst working on exploitation of West African oil reserves. When the prospect she is working on turns up bad data it’s down to her to explain why. The data is corrupted at source and unfortunately the source is with the seismic team deep in the African Jungle. To London based Joanne the entire African continent is a wild and dangerous place where anything can happen and if anyone must tread those exotic shores it should not be her. Joanne may not like or agree with her assignment but she is not alone on the flight into the heart of the dark continent.
J heart of the Dark Continent.