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The Gioconda has just left on a world cruise, when a man is reported overboard. But no one appears to be missing. This is just the first of a series of problems to assault the captain, known as the ''Bear Bugger'.
Two days into a world cruise a man is reported overboard, but no one appears to be missing. As she heads for the Caribbean, the good ship Gioconda faces further problems. What about that unsavoury passenger in the owner's suite? And can the Bear Bugger keep the old ship going? | |  | | Coffin corner
Survival prospects are poor for two new infants: the country of Singapore, which has nothing beyond the ingenuity and hard work of its people, and Straits Airways, battling the elements with equipment that still struggles to cope. Storms lie ahead.
The year is 1960 and the age of aerial mass travel is about to start. In Singapore, a tiny island with no prospects, a new airline is formed. The action moves around... Pakistan, India, Australia. One day the crew stray into Coffin Corner. Will they survive? | |  | | Last Weiss
It is Spring 1944 and Hitler's Third Reich has just twelve months to run. Shot down over enemy territory and struggling to avoid capture, Per witnesses the collapse of this evil system, first in Germany, then in his native Norway.
It is spring 1944 and Per, a Norwegian tail gunner, is is shot down during a raid over Germany. In his efforts to escape capture, he finds himself employed as a foreign worker in a small hotel. This leads to a conflict of loyalties and eventually a return to his homeland, Norway | |  | | Letter from Galapagos
Debbi is back in England running their company, Fingest yachts. Her husband, sailing round the world, sends a routine letter from Galapagos. He is about to start the long haul across the Pacific. That is the last she hears. Harry has vanished.
Debbi is the CEO of Fingest Yachts. Her husband is sailing round the world and reports from Galapagos that all is well. Then silence. His boat vanishes in the Pacific | |  | | Night Watchman
Political monuments like Parliament may seem as solid as the ground they are built on, but this is an illusion. What happens when something we take for granted crumbles? Who will be able to take charge? Maybe the Night Watchman.
A 747 leaves San Francisco on a routine flight, as does an Airbus from somewhere in Africa. The result is a political nightmare in London, a scenario never envisaged and therefore not planned. Uncharted territory. | |  | | Nile Sleeper
A 1980s Middle East drama
The year is 1981 and ex detective Ben Drover is hired by travel company Wander World to check on the security angle for their proposed Nile cruises.
All goes well until he takes the Nile Sleeper train south, when...
Well, the Middle Est at that time was a cauldron of hatred. Ben finds himself involved, first in Israel then Lebanon.
A fictional; story set within the framework of real events. | |  | | Road to Mandalay
Wars now take place in cyberspace, the damage invisible but no less harmful. Countries need to protect the few geniuses who preside over this arcane technology, because rivals will make every effort to steal them.. And then hide them. Anywhere
Max and Alexei witness a fatal skiing accident. Next day they offer their condolences to the victim's companion, Gudrun, who seems strangely unaffected by the tragedy.
They expect to hear no more, but a few weeks later Gudrun invites them to dinner. She has a business proposition. Max and Alexei eventually accept, taking them on a dangerous assignment far removed from an alpine ski resort | |  | | Stasiland
The Stasi, dreaded secret police of the Communists, may have gone, but their influence still lingers. As Englishman Ed Blake, on a trip through Europe discovers, when he becomes a murder suspect. History casts a long shadow in present day Germany.
Every country lives in the shadow of its past, none more so than Germany. The Stasi, dreaded secret police of the Communist era, may have been dead these thirty years, but its influence lives on. As Ed Blake discovers, when murder and politics bring his innocent jaunt to a halt in what was...Stasiland. | |  | | Tea with Rasputin
Airline pilot Greg Wilton goes missing in Alaska. After a tale of crime, politics, romance and humour, it ends Ten years later in Russia having 'Tea with Rasputin'.
We start in Alaska in 1992, the cold war over, the future uncertain. In this new world there must be interesting ways of making money and we follow the trail through Hong Kong, Miami and London England. to the grand finale in St.Petersburg Russia.
Travel, crime, politics, romance and humour, they're all there in this international thriller. |
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