Steve Saunders is an ex-Vietnam War news cameraman, repatriated back to Australia suffering from Post Trauma Stress. The final terrifying incident which tipped him over the edge causing ongoing, frightening flashes of the experience. He becomes unwittingly caught up in a sophisticated people-smuggling racket through his involvement with a young Vietnamese, Tan, who saved his life in Vietnam. Tan’s parents decide to immigrate to Australia as illegal refugees and become victims of a brutal, cruel deception. Steve, his girlfriend, Sally, and Tan become embroiled in a deadly battle to expose the criminal organisation to the authorities. Faced with corruption at high levels and action packed danger, the shattering secret of The Burning Boy, is finally revealed.
This is a very funny book full of saucy and at times bawdy humour proving getting older doesn't mean being over it all and is sure to make you look at that sweet little old couple walking down the street in a totally different light.Old school chums, Aubrey and Charles, conceive the idea of a unique service to the ageing population of retirees crowding the tourist Mecca, Surfers Paradise on the Australian Gold Coast.With the support of the Front Office Ladies, Estelle and Penny, The Twilight Escort Agency opens its doors to the hilarious characters of the Baby Boomer era.
Millicent, a highly trained and experienced undercover agent for the CIA, the Cat Intelligence Agency, is sent on a mission to investigate an explosion of the drug trade operating in Nimbin in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. There she meets the dashing but mysterious, King, a devilishly attractive Burmese and befriends Bertha, an amusing elderly part Persian hypochondriac.But is the remarkable King merely a distraction, an accomplice or a compatriot and what part does he have to play in the illicit drug trade?Her assignment becomes almost cat-astrophic when the investigation unexpectedly leads her into deeper and more dangerous areas of intrigue and murder.
Psycho therapist, Peter Mahoney is forced to re-examine his training, beliefs and eventually his very existence when he meets, John, a seemingly very ordinary, elderly client suffering from panic attacks. Under hypnotherapy john's symptoms don't seem to add up and Peter suspects multiple personality disorder, the most surprising of which is 'the tourist from the light', who claims to have lived on earth at the beginning of our time!Has the client come to be healed or to heal the therapist?This is one man's journey of discovery.
Funny, touching, sad, with a light of hope at the end of the tunnelThis is the tragicomedy memoir of a Stage and Television star of the 70’s and 80’s who is forced to abandon his career when his beloved wife, Marie, suffers a massive stroke which leaves her physically disabled. As her full time carer and with approaching old age he reviews their life together and resorts to his sense of humor and writing to enable him to cope with the restrictions of his new found, unexpected way of life and to satisfy his driving creative inclinations.The story reveals the author's comic reaction to his career and encroaching old age intertwined with a touching love story that eventually questions his spiritual beliefs and makes him into the man he has become. As he says, “Not a trip for the faint hearted.”
Mystery, intrigue, murder, sex and a visit to the dark side. Evelyn Marsh, the reluctant psychic, is inveigled into yet another intriguing escapade by her spiritual guide, the late Detective Lucky Lambert. Lucky coerces Evelyn into helping her investigate suspicious deaths at the mysterious Masterman’s Retreat, an elite gentlemen’s Nursing Home.Evelyn accepts the task of proof reading a supposedly fictional novel written by a one of the residents, a disillusioned, retired spy, Harry. Evelyn suspects that the novel is actually a memoir of Harry’s past life as a member of various Intelligence Agencies across the world. IAre the murder clues hidden in Harry’s book and the other perplexing residents of Masterman’s Retreat?
Detective Senior Sergeant Lucielle (Lucky) Lambert looked down at the body lying in the bath. The eyes were closed and it looked quite peaceful really. Her short, wavy dark hair wasn’t looking too good plastered to her head with strands flattened against her cheeks and forehead and blood trickling down the right side of her face from the gash on her head. The makeup was a bit blurry and streaked, skin a bit pale maybe, but all over, the body’s in pretty good shape. Yes, I can definitely ID this body; there’s no doubt about it…it’s mine!From her Heavenly vantage point, the late Senior Sergeant Lambert convinces Evelyn, a reluctant psychic, to help and this sets them on a trail of crimes and even more murders that in some strange way seem connected to her own.
Patti and Dennis Price, are contracted to appear at the popular La Boit, in Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they invite their daughter, Tianne, to join them. Tianne meets Rashid, an actor and model from Iran with strong ties to the PLO. They marry in Athens, but the marriage becomes stormy after only a few months with many episodes of domestic violence. Eventually, Tianne's battered and strangled body is discovered on a Gold Coast golf course. Rashid is arrested in Melbourne attempting to flee Austalia under a false name. Not in the Public Interest is an intriguing new theory based on a true story as recalled by Tianne's mother, Patti.
An overwhelming obsession that has lasted through the aeons of time.A gifted artist faces an unusual and intriguing passion that will take him around the World to discover startling revelations he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The journey may confirm his long held beliefs but it will also endanger his life.A perfected man must have experienced every type of earthly relation and duty, every phase of desire, affection and passion, every form of temptation and every form of conflict. No one life can possibly furnish the material for more than a minute section of such experience.
Steve Saunders is an ex-Vietnam War news cameraman, repatriated back to Australia suffering from Post Trauma Stress. The final terrifying incident which tipped him over the edge causing ongoing, frightening flashes of the experience. He becomes unwittingly caught up in a sophisticated people-smuggling racket through his involvement with a young Vietnamese, Tan, who saved his life in Vietnam. Tan’s parents decide to immigrate to Australia as illegal refugees and become victims of a brutal, cruel deception. Steve, his girlfriend, Sally, and Tan become embroiled in a deadly battle to expose the criminal organisation to the authorities. Faced with corruption at high levels and action packed danger, the shattering secret of The Burning Boy, is finally revealed.
This is a very funny book full of saucy and at times bawdy humour proving getting older doesn't mean being over it all and is sure to make you look at that sweet little old couple walking down the street in a totally different light.Old school chums, Aubrey and Charles, conceive the idea of a unique service to the ageing population of retirees crowding the tourist Mecca, Surfers Paradise on the Australian Gold Coast.With the support of the Front Office Ladies, Estelle and Penny, The Twilight Escort Agency opens its doors to the hilarious characters of the Baby Boomer era.
Millicent, a highly trained and experienced undercover agent for the CIA, the Cat Intelligence Agency, is sent on a mission to investigate an explosion of the drug trade operating in Nimbin in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. There she meets the dashing but mysterious, King, a devilishly attractive Burmese and befriends Bertha, an amusing elderly part Persian hypochondriac.But is the remarkable King merely a distraction, an accomplice or a compatriot and what part does he have to play in the illicit drug trade?Her assignment becomes almost cat-astrophic when the investigation unexpectedly leads her into deeper and more dangerous areas of intrigue and murder.
Psycho therapist, Peter Mahoney is forced to re-examine his training, beliefs and eventually his very existence when he meets, John, a seemingly very ordinary, elderly client suffering from panic attacks. Under hypnotherapy john's symptoms don't seem to add up and Peter suspects multiple personality disorder, the most surprising of which is 'the tourist from the light', who claims to have lived on earth at the beginning of our time!Has the client come to be healed or to heal the therapist?This is one man's journey of discovery.
Funny, touching, sad, with a light of hope at the end of the tunnelThis is the tragicomedy memoir of a Stage and Television star of the 70’s and 80’s who is forced to abandon his career when his beloved wife, Marie, suffers a massive stroke which leaves her physically disabled. As her full time carer and with approaching old age he reviews their life together and resorts to his sense of humor and writing to enable him to cope with the restrictions of his new found, unexpected way of life and to satisfy his driving creative inclinations.The story reveals the author's comic reaction to his career and encroaching old age intertwined with a touching love story that eventually questions his spiritual beliefs and makes him into the man he has become. As he says, “Not a trip for the faint hearted.”
Mystery, intrigue, murder, sex and a visit to the dark side. Evelyn Marsh, the reluctant psychic, is inveigled into yet another intriguing escapade by her spiritual guide, the late Detective Lucky Lambert. Lucky coerces Evelyn into helping her investigate suspicious deaths at the mysterious Masterman’s Retreat, an elite gentlemen’s Nursing Home.Evelyn accepts the task of proof reading a supposedly fictional novel written by a one of the residents, a disillusioned, retired spy, Harry. Evelyn suspects that the novel is actually a memoir of Harry’s past life as a member of various Intelligence Agencies across the world. IAre the murder clues hidden in Harry’s book and the other perplexing residents of Masterman’s Retreat?
Detective Senior Sergeant Lucielle (Lucky) Lambert looked down at the body lying in the bath. The eyes were closed and it looked quite peaceful really. Her short, wavy dark hair wasn’t looking too good plastered to her head with strands flattened against her cheeks and forehead and blood trickling down the right side of her face from the gash on her head. The makeup was a bit blurry and streaked, skin a bit pale maybe, but all over, the body’s in pretty good shape. Yes, I can definitely ID this body; there’s no doubt about it…it’s mine!From her Heavenly vantage point, the late Senior Sergeant Lambert convinces Evelyn, a reluctant psychic, to help and this sets them on a trail of crimes and even more murders that in some strange way seem connected to her own.
Patti and Dennis Price, are contracted to appear at the popular La Boit, in Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they invite their daughter, Tianne, to join them. Tianne meets Rashid, an actor and model from Iran with strong ties to the PLO. They marry in Athens, but the marriage becomes stormy after only a few months with many episodes of domestic violence. Eventually, Tianne's battered and strangled body is discovered on a Gold Coast golf course. Rashid is arrested in Melbourne attempting to flee Austalia under a false name. Not in the Public Interest is an intriguing new theory based on a true story as recalled by Tianne's mother, Patti.
An overwhelming obsession that has lasted through the aeons of time.A gifted artist faces an unusual and intriguing passion that will take him around the World to discover startling revelations he never imagined in his wildest dreams. The journey may confirm his long held beliefs but it will also endanger his life.A perfected man must have experienced every type of earthly relation and duty, every phase of desire, affection and passion, every form of temptation and every form of conflict. No one life can possibly furnish the material for more than a minute section of such experience.