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The Brussels Lobby
The race for limitless energy takes a dramatic turn. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France, aims to replicate the sun’s helium fusion process using a Tokamak. However, the project faces significant delays.
Amidst these delays, a French start-up achieves a ground breaking feat by successfully fusing hydrogen and solar heat. This innovation leads to the creation of Hysoplasm, or HSP – a cheap, abundant and sustainable energy source.
But this development doesn’t sit well with those invested in traditional energy sectors. Key players in the Oil, Gas and Finance Industries in Brussels are alarmed. To counter this emerging threat, they turn to Chris Towers, a formidable and unscrupulous lobbyist. Towers finds himself in a clandestine meeting with EU Commissioner Manuel Rojas, responsible for Climate Action and Energy Union, in an obscure café in Brussels.
This is a story about the high-stakes world of energy politics, where technological breakthroughs clash with entrenched interests, whilst the future of global energy is at play.
‘Which interests stand in the way of real climate solutions? This eco-thriller tells a story of the fight of a start-up against the fossil industry. It introduces HSP as an abundant, renewable energy for a cleaner future.’ Pim van Galen, journalist at Dutch Public Television.
‘A fascinating and well-timed story.’ Ton van Uffel, energy and chemistry expert.
‘This book convinces with the sincerity of the plot and the richness of the details. It deserves a wider audience than just environmental geeks. Captive reading.’ Jochem Visser, lawyer.
‘Fighting injustice is tempting and honourable but not easy.’ Roberto Bastida Caracuel, port development manager.
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The Competition
Eight unlikely chefs thrust together, a washed-up TV presenter, a large cash prize and an unforgiving Northumberland landscape. Add to this a previously forgotten ghost from the past and what could possibly go wrong?
Introducing a new and daring competition that everyone is just dying to be part of. A brutal and often darkly comic tale about why chefs should never be left to their own devices. Scores will be settled, friendships formed (and lost) and all in the pursuit of fifty thousand pounds.
Will anyone live to tell the tale? Hunting and foraging for food along with plummeting temperatures and the risk of exposure, there can be only one winner.
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The Conversation Club
Centuries ago, the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten appointed a council of 22 custodians to foster the flourishing of the human spirit through the pursuit of knowledge, the advance of the arts, and covert philanthropy. Today, the London Chapter of that council is known as The Conversation Club. It is helmed by Esau Monk, who guards its activities and astounding wealth with ironclad secrecy, but its very existence and purpose are threatened from within.
60 years ago, in Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Ackerman smuggled 22 boys and a hoard of stolen gold out of the country at the outbreak of the war. Their destination: London, and The Conversation Club. Unknown to anyone but him, he has secretly substituted his own son for one of the boys and is haunted by guilt.
Now, in London, someone is carrying out brutal murders. The security services are convinced Islamic terrorists are behind the atrocities. Former FBI profiler, Dr. Ben Whisker, disagrees. He discerns something far more deadly than meets the eye. His recent fall from professional grace, however, means he is not being taken seriously. Realising that the impenetrable Conversation Club is the focus of the violence, he teams up with the Grand Master of the Club, Esau Monk, to figure out what the connection is.
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The Dark Corners – Book One
This is the story about three women, who think they are friends until one hellish night when one is raped and the other two kill the rapist and blame her. This starts an inventive killing spree, each new murder committed to cover up the previous one and to keep several steps ahead of the police. Eventually, she wakes from a coma to find out that it was all a bad dream and that in reality, they had been in a car crash that maimed the other two and demolished her face. She is given a new face and tries to get back with her friends, but they hate her and set her up with a contagious new boyfriend. Upon receiving the news that she has become contagious and will die, she wants to take them with her and sets about destroying them, only to find out that they can all be saved.
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The Dark Side of Innocence
A devastating incident turns Matthew Morgan, a caring and innocent school teacher, into a would-be vigilante. What makes him want to tackle Lawrence Tyburn and his merciless, underworld, criminal gang?
What does a woman do when she falls in love with a man and sees him bent on self-destruction? This is Melissa Reagan’s dilemma, as she becomes infatuated by Matthew. She feels his pain and anguish and comes to a terrible realisation. His obsession has no boundaries, as a need for retribution drives him to desperate measures.
Charles Rydell is a minister at the home office. Why does he make an agreement to move selected inmates to an old Victorian prison? The action is fast and furious with MI6 chasing shadows as they try to unravel an outrageous crime in the highest echelons of government. In the background is a prime minister trying to keep the lid on a scandal that would ruin her career. Two very different worlds collide with spectacular effect!
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The De Molay Complex
The story begins with the main hero, Ben Arnold, when he is 11 years old. You see this young child on an almost suicidal mission. And after he loses his parents he is sent to the learning rooms, deep at the bottom of the De Molay complex; this is where all De Molay orphans are sent. There you see the other seven main characters within the Omega Squadron. The story then jumps forward 20 years. The now Hollywood heartthrob and chief director of the De Molay, U.S. Chapter, Ben Arnold, hears about the gruesome murders taking place in New York. And with his Omega unit, sets about stopping the monster. Army girl, Staff Sergeant Edwards, is on a mission in Mexico. And on her return, you then learn about the gateways all around America, which she uses in Florida. When she arrives back in New York, within minutes she stumbles upon a near-death situation for Ben Arnold within the gateway exit, where she goes on and saves his life. Later, a huge battle ensues at Lake Titicaca, on land and underwater between Ancient aliens, the U.S. Army, and an ancient religious order.
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The Desert's Daughters
A story of indomitable spirit.
A journey of ancestral discovery.
Set against the backdrop of the most inhospitable desert on the planet, two young women from different worlds forge a link that transcends time.
Mia Chavez, a young Australian archaeologist, arrives in Chile to connect with her familial origins. Startling events unfold as she unearths dramatic links to the flight for the life of an Atacameños girl, Kiki, five centuries previously.
Hunted by the malevolent shaman, Mamut, Kiki’s escape within the ancient mountains of the Andes, inexorably lure Mia to uncover a mystery beyond belief.
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The Devil's Tea Party
New York is being tormented by an artistically creative serial killer with a taste for beautiful brunettes and satanic symbolism. To catch a murderous mastermind, one man has learned how to think like a killer. That man is Jake Cannon, a handsome and gifted homicide detective with a reputation for breaking hearts and breaking the rules.
Desperate to protect the citizens of his beloved city, Jake turns to attractive young police psychologist Felicity Monroe, and flamboyant billionaire art mogul Damian Burgundy, to help him build a profile of the sadistic serial murderer known as ‘The Ladykiller’.
As Jake delves into the sexually depraved high society in which the Ladykiller stalks his prey, he soon realises that there is more to the recent wave of murders than meets the eye. To catch the killer, Jake must confront the demons of his own past, and uncover a sinister truth which threatens to tear his world apart!
Paul Michael Campbell’s debut thriller is a nail-biting feast of sex, suspense and explosive twists which will leave you on the edge of your seat! You are formally invited to The Devil's Tea Party.
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The Distance Between Us
Will Farmer is mourning the murder of his only daughter, Daisy, but he becomes frustrated with the slow progress shown by the police. Aided and abetted by Meg, whom he befriends after he discovers she too has lost a daughter in similar circumstances forty years ago, he uncovers a few unpalatable home truths and reveals secrets of his marriage that should stay secret, for the sake of sanity. At the end, a big twist exposes the real villains, who live right under his nose in plain sight. Read it and be very scared…
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The Domino Factor
Two worlds collide! It is 1941, eighteen-year-old Katerina documents her harrowing flight from Ukraine and the Nazi occupation in her personnel journal.
81 years later, her grandson Ivan Kross and long-time friend Nikolas, meet after five long years. During a friendly game of chess, discussions turn to Ivan’s preoccupation with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, triggering a chain of events irrevocably changing his life.
Ivan and his family are drawn into a thrilling vortex of political intrigue, cyber-attacks, AI drone surveillance and covert infiltration. From Geneva to London to Moscow, his path crosses, retired British special forces Lieutenant Colonel Roger Aitkens and his SAS Black OPS team, as well as, outlawed, independent Russian journalist, Arianna Nekraslova, who’s audacity and resources will prove invaluable in navigating through the back alleys of Moscow.
The riveting chronicle unfolds into a shattering domino effect, shaking the foundations of the Kremlin and setting in motion ramifications threatening the rule of a Russian Federation on the brink of nuclear armageddon.
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The Dream Institute
Leif Hjernø, a psychologist of Argentine and Danish descent and the son of Danish immigrants, and his secretary, Olga Tretkova, share a common passion for exploring the mysteries of the subconscious mind through their membership in IASD (The International Association for the Study of Dreams). When Olga is tasked with writing a biography of Leif and his institute, she turns to his renowned dream archive for inspiration. As they collaborate on the project, an unspoken attraction between them grows.
However, their peaceful work environment is shattered when a man is found murdered in one of the dream cabins in the institutes cellar. The victim is none other than the person Leif despises the most, and the evidence points to Leif as the prime suspect. With his fingerprints found on the murder weapon, one of his own kitchen knives, Leif’s reputation and career are at risk. Olga must use her expertise to help clear his name, but the deeper they delve, the more they uncover secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
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The Dutch Institute
Survive long enough and you become the problem.
Dr. Marten Keyser has incurable cancer. With nothing to lose he survives by pursuing a drug regime of his own devising. Already unpopular with the powerbrokers in the dystopian healthcare system, he then develops a light-based therapy, but his low-cost innovation threatens the power balance and a cat-and-mouse game of survival ensues. In the face of mounting intrigue aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, Marten and his wife delve into high-level corruption, struggle to save their relationship, and build new alliances that might offer them a safe future.£9.99