Books 10, 11 & 12
The Shadow Man
With international terrorism spreading like a disease across the World, each county’s representatives were demanding protection. In Great Britain former servicemen and women found they were in great demand.
Jack Hardy, a former sergeant in the Royal Marines, chose to join the police and after a year’s service he was seconded to the Personal Protection Unit. After a brief spell in a remote Scottish castle under conditions of considerable mystery. Jack finds himself in the more familiar territory of Afghanistan guarding a rather dynamic Member of Parliament.
Danger and attendant threat of death are all part of this new employment. After several close shaves, he and his MP, the feisty Jane Winters, moved to the Middle East. Her task is to try and curb the excesses of the rampant Israelis, who are confident in the protection of the United States no matter what they do.
The Shadow Man is a tale of our times. Look at any top political leader, his or her protector is there close by, though you may not see them.
The Final Solution
In November 1947 the United Nations voted in favour of the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab States. Since that time and up to the present day the two factions have been at each other’s throats.
Several wars have been fought between the two sides, at the end of which Israel has claimed more and more Arab land. The two Palestinian factions, one in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the other in Gaza, have been separated not just by distance, but by Israeli cunning in favouring one side at the expense of the other.
The biggest fear that Israel has is that Hamas and Fatah will manage to speak with one voice and act in unison. The United States of America has a huge part to play in the final solution to this problem. President Obama on achieving office stated that a Middle East settlement was a major priority, he now knows how difficult that is to achieve.
In The Final Solution we see what could happen if these frustrations continue to bedevil both sides. In the world of fiction the writer has a blank canvas and his imagination has a clear run to achieve what others have failed to do in solving this sixty-three-year-old problem, read on.