The Angel’s Share.
Dancer Lola Montez’s affair with the King of Bavaria is scandalising Munich and formenting revolution. The British royal consort, himself a German, fears for the safety of King Ludwig, and the monarchy, if he 
remains with Lola. The prince seeks a reliable man who can ‘move her out of the way’. Captain Richard Burton is home, in London, on leave from India. His reputation for efficiency and discretion brings him to the prince’s attention. He is dispatched to Munich with orders to bring an end to the scandal without causing another.
Purchase
The Council. Max has joined the National Safety Council – Victorian division – as Chairman of the board. He is well known in Melbourne circles as reliable and a steady business hand,
The Co
uncil is a search and rescue organisation. Its operations boss, John Friedrich, has grown the Council from a humble advisory body to the best equipped group in the business. It is internationally recognised. Friedrich himself is highly regarded in government circles, even being nominated for a prestigious medal.
Is it all it seems?
Resurrection. John Muller is hiding out in remote tropical
Queensland. The Sydney underworld put a price on his head and then he lost his fortune in the collapse of the Nugan-Hand bank. By chance he stumbles on a small cache left behind by his friend. He has nothing else.
His search for a discreet buyer ignites Melbourne passions and he takes a short holiday …in ‘sunny Canberra.’
There his past catches up with him. Muller is dragged into a conspiracy against a Labour Party favoured-son and a foreign embassy official – a KGB man. He is soon in the sights of a Royal Commissioner, a new Prime Minister and the national press.
Can he continue hiding…even in the public eye?
Empires
A chronology of a war between hereditary enemies, the starvation of Paris, the disintegration of an Empire, the violent birth of another.
Otto von Bismarck knew well the Gallic qualities of courage, patriotism, but he had also recognised arrogance and conceit. To exorcise his Gérolstein nightmare and unite Germany, he manoeuvres a minor squabble between Emperor Louis-Napoleon and King Wilhelm into a frivolous declaration of war by France.
Empires narrates the events as seen through different eyes: the disastrous and bloody French campaign; a mutual disdain between Paris and France – ‘France has declared war on Paris’; ambulance américaine; the starvation and bombardment of Paris; the balloonists; a Prussian Emperor proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles; the birth of the Paris Commune.
This text is descriptive, war is always a bloody affair.
The Milieu
Sydney 1975: Living and dying with the mob
The milieu is what the Sydney underworld calls itself. None of them really knew what the word meant; it became an argot, a slang that only they understood. A secret name for themselves.
It is 1975: The Rat Pack has more influence in the Queensland police service than the new Commissioner. In New South Wales they whisper about the Premier’s unexplained wealth and why the cops are mysteriously unable to locate the illegal casino, Club 33.
Sydney is in the shaky hands of Mr Big, Bally poker machines are in its clubs and its youth is being ravaged by heroin addiction.
The Federal Attorney-General wants to rebuild the Commonwealth police as an FBI and is looking for a man to go undercover and infiltrate the milieu. This will be an exceptionally dangerous assignment, requiring self-discipline, daring and imagination… and a man who’s just crazy enough to do it.
John Muller starts out as an honest cop, but how much temptation is too much?
K …behind the real Cold War
The Third Reich has crumbled, its survivors are building the new German
Secret Service.
The West must learn if its new enemy, the Soviet Bloc, has built an Atomic Bomb. Chance meetings set up odd partnerships that take Gehlen Org. agent Hans Lund into the confidence of Russia’s leadership and inside its post-Stalin power struggle. The events depicted in K are fictional… apart from those that actually occurred.
It is 1870. French armies are annihilated. Paris is encircled, bombarded, starved and humiliated. A Prussian Emperor is crowned in the Palace of Versailles. French Governments fail their citizens. Paris turns on itself in shame. Revolution seems always to be in French blood. The Commune is born.
1870 -1871 saw a catastrophic failure of French political and military leadership. ‘Paris Falls’ examines the war through the eyes of those who were there.
Limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery. Judgement follows after them.
9Circles is the story of one man’s struggle to live a good life in the face of its great temptations. Fleeing debt and a troubled wife in society London he arrives in emergent New South Wales where he is admitted as a barrister. Money troubles, a marriage too many, libellous prose, murder and the wrong clients are the ordeals he has been set.
We are all tested by demons, at stake is eternity. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not, there just might be something after death.
The Justice Machine
Chas Robertson is driven to steal to survive through a severe drought. His crime is witnessed by a police Aboriginal tracker and he is charged. Suddenly he is accused of attempting to murder the same witness. If Chas cannot convince the jury of his innocence he faces time in Darlinghurst Gaol. Or worse!
Based on a true story, The Justice Machine examines the motivations of the players in the law game. The Magistrate, the Policeman, the Prosecutor, the Barrister and the Judge all have their own reasons for being there. Hardly any of them are to do with justice. The law and justice are different things it seems.
The year is 1882 but this could be any time. Injustice is timeless.