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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.
In a wild and lawless land a desperate and deadly plot emerges. The success of the twin towers has left Al-Qaeda wanting more. More in the form of retribution and the eviction of infidel presence from the land of Mohammed. A new plan is formulated, a plot so devastating it will shake the world. A plot that will leave you gasping in its audacity.
Have you ever wondered what REALLY happened to MH370?
The KERMAN RAIDS
Jump with the team into the darkness in a new action story inspired by discovering the technological prowess of Iranian drones. Experience daring clandestine missions up close and personal. This is a true to life action thriller that will leave a lasting impression.
Did our intelligent services know the extent of the Iranian drone programme before the Ukraine war? Find out in this hair raising novel as a deniable team face the terror of bullets in the night. Be parachuted into the lair of the Ayatollah and feel the heat of his wrath.
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?
The War
He shouldn’t have been there. By any normal standard Ed Hunter was way too old but then again they were desperate. With the growing threat from the East someone had to give the militia a chance. Someone had to teach them how to defend their land. The military were not going to do it, they were too busy ramping up and training themselves.
In location Ed swiftly acquires kudos. Billeted with Katrin, a relationship develops that he had not envisaged and when the invasion comes, against all advice that bond keeps Ed in country and fighting. The question is, can his force of militia prevail against the oncoming onslaught? Can Ed survive, will either of them come out the other side? Or will the sheer brutality of war destroy their unexpected happiness?
Pirates of the Arctic Sea
Crispin D’Or, a maritime detective of some repute has been tasked with finding an errant freighter involved with an incident at sea. But what Crispin begins to unravel will test all his skills to the limit, a trail of falsehoods and intrigue leading him inexorably into the harshest of seas. Can he survive against the dangers of the Arctic cold and ruthless pirates? And will the truth be worth it?
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.
air taxi
Dan, Dan the taxi man. That’s what Charlie the barman at the club calls him. But Dan isn’t quite the normal taxi driver. He runs a small air taxi business flying clients across Europe. He’s a man Victoria has had eyes on for some time and now is her chance. But Dan isn’t your usual man. It’s not that he doesn’t like women or can’t see Victorias’ attraction but she’s out of his league and business consumes his attention. Women are a distraction.
Her life to that point had not been a bed of roses but Victoria knew what she wanted and she knew how to catch a man. Dan was a different kettle of fish and landing him became a challenge. Since when did Vicky ever get turned down? And when did she ever give up?
Their life together is constantly under threat. A future and a family may be a pleasure both could enjoy but Dan has his business to run. The side-line of flying Luxuries to the isolated Russian city of Kaliningrad is the real pay-dirt that keeps his business afloat. Unfortunately pay-dirt all too often turns to mud and this is a quagmire that will drop Dan into a sink hole of trouble.
Harry and Sirenna
Harry was a man married to his work. Never a mysoginist, he neither thought much of, or had time for women.
Sirenna changed all that. In life both had fought for what they wanted. Harry had his dream, Sirenna had a nightmare. Could their love survive the conflict?
Harry was a busy man. On top of his commitments to shareholders he had aircraft to make and an airline to run. He saw Sirenna and discounted her as out of his league. In her complicated life Sirenna saw Harry as a nice bloke. Unlike her usual suitors he seemed solid and unpretentious. Catching him became a challenge. Their relationship blossomed, both finding a happiness neither had experienced before. But his work would always take precedence and her past would come back to haunt her.
