A sinister conspiracy is about to change the world forever. One of the most powerful nations has secretly joined an unholy alliance with India to tip the balance of world power and create an axis that will never again be dictated to by the U.S. government. The world watches helplessly as nuclear weapons replace diplomacy in the increasingly volatile exchanges between the Indian and Pakistan governments. With a fanatic's finger on the nuclear button, world oil supplies are cut off and chaos reigns throughout the Gulf States and beyond. The American and UK governments stand together to face the world …

The third of the Thadeus Burke series continues the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s insurance broker and his sister Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now the spring of 1927 and our hero, assisted by his loyal staff, divide their time between London and Cambridge. A wealthy racehorse owner spinster is murdered at her house in Newmarket and we follow the unravelling of this mystery, interwoven with passionate affairs involving the prime suspect and our hero and his sister. Entwined within this tale, there are bodies at Brooklands’ motor races and at horseraces, on …

Wotcha a contraction of the 15th-century English greeting "what chere be with you?’| A watcher is a person who watches or observes somebody or something: A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who’s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. He is forever stuck with one eye that cannot see, and has turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star and avid coke fiend Richard Winston Smith, who’s watched by millions. Say WOTCHA! to high-class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son …

This book is a sequel to the first adventures of Thadeus Burke, continuing the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s insurance broker and his sister, Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now the summer of 1926 and our hero, assisted by his loyal staff, divide their time between London and Cambridge. Following the Derby at Epsom, a body is found, a major art robbery occurs, and some very peculiar anonymous postal deliveries keep the amateur sleuths busy until they can finally relax at the theatre in Paris. Between the three main mysteries is woven a …

DCI Bev Smith is enjoying a rare Sunday off with her family and friends in the garden of her home. Her peace of mind is soon shattered by a call from DS Jones advising her of a domestic incident that doesn’t seem to add up. Not long after that she is called to her local Gastro Pub to investigate, a body has been found outside. What appears to be a run-of-the-mill mugging takes a different shape when the victim is found to be an ex-commander of police, who worked in the Met, took retirement, and then went overseas in an …

In 1988, Harvard law graduate Tom Metzler is visiting London for the first time. Although on legal business, he finds time to visit the Natural History Museum where, among the cornucopia of treasures he witnesses something that changes his life forever: the sight of a stunningly beautiful young woman. He’s elated when their eyes meet and she fixes him with a winsome smile, but in an instant and as if by magic, she disappears. This vision of beauty reappears at Tom’s hotel later that evening. Tom’s delighted yet bewildered when she addresses him by name without the slightest introduction, and …

In this collection of short stories, Vincent Cobb explores aspects of life that are both extraordinary and interesting, but often delve in to the otherworld of the supernatural. From the story of the remarkable but apparently ordinary Agnes Ward, whose discovery of cancer takes her on a journey out of this world, we meet Fred who is Dead. But no one has told him and he is dead, so he's a bit fuddled with the situation of his own funeral. Though things are going to get worse for him as the sins of the past catch up with all men. …