Download or read book Headload of Napalm written by David Chadwick and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast paced and immersive crime novel that powerfully evokes America during the tumultuous Vietnam War era.

Download or read book Headload of Napalm written by David Chadwick and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1973: A pro-trades union congressman is shot dead in a California desert town – along with a celebrity businessman and a barmaid who went for a break at the wrong time. The triple homicide happened just hours after the congressman told local newspaper editor Wat Tyler that he’d come to town in defiance of a death threat from anti-union workers. Tyler, a Vietnam combat veteran, teams up with the town’s first female chief of detectives. Together, they link the killings to a defence company boss who has gone missing, leaving a huge Pentagon contract and 1,200 jobs in the balance. At a time when reality often humbled the wildest conspiracy theories, Tyler comes up against a hostile FBI agent, angry mobsters and a cheated casino owner. His problems mount when a secretive figure he last saw deep in Viet Cong territory arrives in town…

Download or read book Common Sense written by Colin Wreford and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense covers the 5 year period of Government by a brand new political party elected on a manifesto of eliminating crime. The book traces the increasing influence on day to day life of the British population as harsh penalties are introduced.

Download or read book The Song of the Lost Boy written by Maggie Allder and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song of the Lost Boy is the latest novel from Winchester author Maggie Allder. Living in a homeless encampment on the edge of Winchester, Giorgio has become separated from his parents. With great determination, he sets out to find then; unaware of the difficulties he will encounter searching for missing people in a neo-fascist state. Giorgio has only three clues to guide him: his name, a necklace and a half-remembered song. He pursues each of his leads in turn, all the while trying to avoid attracting the attention of the authorities, fearing that they will put him in care if they catch him. Eventually his path leads him to unexpected discoveries, and to a new sort of belonging. With times of difficulty, danger, kindness and love, Giorgio pursues his goal. He meets a host of interesting characters along the way, from Spanner-in-the-Works and the brothers Big Bear and Little Bear, to the Old Man who lives in the copse at the top of the hill, to Vishna, who becomes like an older sister to Giorgio. As he searches for the missing adults, Giorgio grows up and learns about the world in which he lives and the people around him. The Song of the Lost Boy is a charming story with moments of sadness and tragedy, but also contentment and joy.

Download or read book I m Going to Find You written by J D Pullan and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were suddenly reminded of something you witnessed as a young child, but had only just realised the terrible significance of what you saw? When Cerys Morgan, a beautiful young student, vanished from a crowded beach in Cornwall while camping with friends during the heatwave summer of 1976 it triggered the largest police operation of its kind at the time. Hundreds of locals joined the search and it made the headlines for weeks, but no trace of her was ever found. Thirty-four years later Emily Harrison is suddenly reminded of something she witnessed as a young child, and only then realises the terrible significance of what she saw. Horrified she tells the police everything she can remember. The trouble is, even her own parents didn’t believe her at the time, so who will believe her now? Haunted by her memories Emily becomes obsessed and, as the heartbreaking story of Cerys unfolds, she soon realises only she knows the answer. Even when she receives sinister threats - and her contented life rapidly disintegrates around her - she will stop at nothing to find the truth and get closure for Cerys’ elderly parents. What really did happen on her sixth birthday?

Download or read book Am I Being Followed written by G. M. Hutchison and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has recently given up his pleasant, secure and quite well-paid job, and is struggling to survive in an oppressive new set of circumstances. Utterly downcast, he is beginning to think that there is some truth in what certain people say, that a person who doesn’t believe in God is inclined to change their mind when they get into serious difficulties from which there seems to be no way out. But it isn’t as simple as this, he realises. Would he be paying so much attention to Linda’s religious beliefs if she had been a ‘plain Jane’ he wonders, or if her father had been a little less imposing? One thing is certain, however. He is in a very dangerous situation and there seems to be no way out.

Download or read book Within the Walls written by Geoff Aird and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Devine is found dead on the beach. Tied to a stake, beaten and left to drown as the tide came in, even the police are shocked at the savagery of the crime.

Download or read book A Death in Custody written by T. S. Clayton and published by Matador. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brixton in the late 1990s. Delroy Brown, a young black man being held in police custody, dies in a confrontation in his cell with a police officer.

Download or read book Hospital Beat written by Jonathan Nicholas and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought your local hospital might be haunted? Did you know the police are sometimes called upon to deal with thieving patients, dishonest staff, and even medical professionals with strange and disturbing sexual habits? Did you know hospitals are regularly and ruthlessly targeted by unscrupulous thieves? All this and more is probably happening in your local hospital, but so far you have been blissfully unaware. Until now! PC Jonathan Nicholas, a serving police officer, has worked an inner-city hospital beat for six years. He has decided to reveal some of the incidents he has dealt with and has collected them together in this book. Weird, shocking, moving, and often amusing, these incidents are a fictional tale based on real incidents and real people. Using information drawn from personal recollection, his police notebook, prosecution files, and anecdotes from staff, patients, and offenders, it is a collection of stories that have never been told before. The book reveals all the behind-the-scenes enquiries and efforts undertaken by this particular hospital police officer, with the invaluable assistance of the hospital staff themselves, in order to ensure such places remain safe and relatively crime-free. Television dramas about hospitals are never like this!A work of adult crime fiction, Hospital Beat is a unique insight into modern policing inside a British hospital and will appeal to fans of humorous ‘I never knew that’ writing. Author Jonathan takes writing inspiration from Dirk Bogarde.

Download or read book Thank You and OK written by David Chadwick and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you're interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun. To learn more about the author, David Chadwick, visit www.cuke.com.

Download or read book Crooked Cucumber written by David Chadwick and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2000-02-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family. Interspersed with previously unpublished passages from Suzuki's talks, Crooked Cucumber evokes a down-to-earth life of the spirit. Along with Suzuki we can find a way to "practice with mountains, trees, and stones and to find ourselves in this big world."

Download or read book The Blue Men written by Michael Knaggs and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Brown, disgraced former Home Secretary, is missing presumed dead. The police had been seeking him in connection with the deaths of several people, and his disappearance effectively closes the case. Grace Goody, Ministerial Director of Justice, is trying to rebuild her life in the light of a new romantic attachment, but always with the lurking threat of exposure given her involvement in Tom’s demise. When a photograph, taken by a journalist's girlfriend during a sailing trip around Scotland, raises serious doubts about the circumstances surrounding Tom's case, ripples of panic spread through Westminster's corridors of power. Retired Detective Chief Inspector, David Gerrard, begins to take an interest in the case, placing himself in danger from forces seeking to suppress the evidence, including a deadly killer with some powerful connections, and a convicted murderer whom David put away twenty years ago and who has just been released. Meanwhile, Maggie, Tom’s wife, is called to a meeting in London where she is shown an image of a man who has recently used her husband’s debit card and, suddenly, for everyone close to the case, nothing appears to be straightforward any more. As pressure mounts on Grace, she finds herself plunged into an international incident involving Hotel St Kilda, the UK's off-shore prison in the Atlantic, placing her at the centre of a potentially disastrous rift between the UK and its closest ally - a situation she will be fortunate to survive, Even if she does, what will be awaiting her back in London?

Download or read book House of Sticks written by Marc Scott and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are united now, two sisters who were kept apart by the cruel twists of their lives. And, despite the fact these siblings grew up at the opposite end of the social ladder, they have discovered that they share an unbreakable bond. It is like a modern-day fairy tale coming to life.

Download or read book The Cage written by Radu Herklots and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoying an overdue break in Venice, the Bishop of Rhyminster has a chance encounter with Oliver Canford; a flamboyant tour guide, staying at the same hotel who grew up in a vicarage and read Theology at Cambridge. Despite misgivings from his wife, Bishop Bob offers him the post of Bishop’s Lay assistant. But Canford neglects his duties in favour of flirting with the Chorister Mums, pursuing eligible widows around Cathedral Close and disappearing to London to sing with his refined choir. When one of his absences extends to 48 hours, the Bishop worries. He calls in his old friend John Tedesco, who runs a bespoke detective agency with his colleague Lynne Davey. When a body is discovered in the Rhyme Chantry, a forbidding structure known as “the Cage”, the tiny tourist city is thrust under the media spotlight, suspicion falling on a leading member of the Cathedral staff. Join Tedesco and Davey as they encounter a byzantine world of rival voluntary groups, hard pressed clergy and warring choral societies. Can they cut through the confusion and solve the mystery of “The Cage” before DCI Bloomfield jumps to the wrong conclusion?

Download or read book The Lensky Connection written by Conrad Delacroix and published by Matador. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Russia during the run-up to the June 1996 Presidential election, Major Valeri Grozky of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) is fighting organized crime in St Petersburg.

Download or read book The Quarant written by Graham Bullen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January, 1348. They say bad things come in threes...The day after an earthquake and tsunami have ravaged Venice, Malin Le Cordier, a successful English maritime trader, sails into the city with plans to mature a coup on behalf of Edward III and Genoa. His time? Short. His guilt? Strong. Keeping the coup a secret weighs heavy on his soul.

Download or read book Friday the Sixteenth written by Peter Coombs and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Packford, a new antiques dealer, is enjoying life. He has a career that suits his laid back nature, a passion for antiques and business is booming. While restoring an item of furniture he finds an old newspaper article together with a photograph of four people. He has no idea just how much these four strangers will change his life.