The New Curiosity Bookshop
A score of novel, intelligent and captivating contemporary stories by
Alexander Travell
Ideal five star reading for winter, summer, Christmas, Birthdays or any other days.
The shop page is now live, for the time being it’s just e-books but everything is on sale.
Some items are free for the next month, so get your reading glasses out!
If you need other than PDF or EPUB files just let me know and I’ll do my best to get your choice to you.
Paperbacks will take a little longer by this method, so please be patient. Thanks.
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BIGGLES FLIES UNDONE
AN ACTION THRILLER IN THE BEST TRADITIONS OF THE GENRE
George Talbot is in a pickle. He’s a con-man who has scammed his way from the Mediterranean down through the East African coast, convincing locals that he’s a property developer planning beachfront holiday resorts that will bring tourism and a fortune to local economies and the pockets of the seedy and greedy. Be they government or gangsters George would con them all.
George was good, he knew his stuff. With a compelling business case and pre-prepared plans and interactive walk-throughs with detail right down to sewage and power. Blessed with the gift of the gab George could sell sand to Arabs. Once the local share of investment was safely banked, George would skip town for the next set of mugs. This time he has been rumbled and is on the run.
Pursued by vengeful clients, George has made his escape but he’s in an ancient plane and the pilot has just collapsed. Worse, if anything could be worse, his fellow passengers are insurgents, every bit as incommunicado as is George but ten times as dangerous. Surviving this predicament may just put him in an even more precarious one.Is this finally the one situation that George can’t wriggle out of?
It starts with a heart stopping moment and continues non-stop as disasters follow one after another. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, can George the con-man extract himself from the mess without getting burned.
BIGGLES FLIES UNDONE is, despite its risqué title a grown-up intelligent thriller.
It is an absorbing, well written and attractive read.
The compelling, action packed plot is developed and sustained by an intriguing, believable and original cast of characters who are brought to life through their credible motivations, actions and dialogue.
Consistently through out all of the stories I have written, readers have made comments such as:
“You had me.”
“I couldn’t put it down.”
“The characters come to life off of the page, such that you feel you know each and every individual personally.”
From Africa to the Arctic and beyond I try to make every scenario as real as is possible, taking from life, and where they exist real places to set each scene.
Each detective story, from pirates and killers, con-men through spacemen (and women) draws upon real people and their motivations.
Here is a selection of titles available on the bookshelf page:
