Download or read book The Vengeance of San Gennaro written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By universal consensus, there’s only one exhibition worth seeing at this year’s Venice Biennale. Giuditta Cancellieri’s Il Timore di Dio, six paintings of something as yet undisclosed. Don’t bother buying tickets, though. A court order means no one’s getting in, not even the artist’s closest associates. And just lately, the city’s been crawling with felons. Most observers don’t think that’s a coincidence. For Signorina Cancellieri is no ordinary artist. A 25-year-old AIDS-victim from one of the toughest districts in Naples, she’s also closely linked to one of MI7’s oldest foes. And she has a truckload of enemies of her own. As the Venetian temperature rises to boiling point, agent Gavin Freedman is dispatched from London to discover whether she’s biddable. Which seems unlikely. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained... But Gavin has issues of his own. He recently lost his wife in a car accident and, although his psych evaluation says All Clear, deep down he's hoping he won't come back. All of which suits Giuditta just fine. Because she already has plans for him.
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Download or read book The Vengeance of San Gennaro written by J. J. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Think through the suspense espionage thrillers that remain like phantoms in the brain and likely they will have been conceived by a British Isles author. Stepping as far back as the Sherlock Holmes style as presented by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and including the imagination of Ian Fleming's James Bond, we now add another master of the medium in J.J. Ward." - Grady Harp, US Amazon Top 50 & Hall of Fame Reviewer and Amazon Vine Voice. By universal consensus, there is only one exhibition worth seeing at this year's Venice Biennale, Giuditta Cancellieri's Il Timore di Dio, consisting of six paintings of something as yet undisclosed to anyone. Don't bother buying tickets, though. A local authority injunction means no one's getting in, not even the artist's closest associates. Since the announcement of Il Timore's inclusion in the festival, the city has been filling with felons, and most commentators don't think that's an accident. Some people say the pictures depict Italy's most powerful gangsters, or its politicians, in compromising situations; some say they portray certain influential people's future deaths; some claim they're detailed illustrations of the end of the world. Others are more cynical: the canvases are blank or even non-existent. For Signorina Cancellieri is no ordinary artist. A twenty-five year old AIDS-victim from one of the toughest districts of Naples, she's also closely linked to one of MI7's old enemies, Constantius Sopa. Just to complicate matters, the Veneto is poised on the brink of an election. If things go as everyone expects, it will secede from Italy and give birth to Repubblica Veneta. Everything is at stake. A lot of people stand to make a killing - in both senses. As things come to a head, Agent Gavin Freedman is dispatched from London to find out just how intimate the link between Giuditta Cancellieri and Constantius Sopa is. Can she be persuaded to reveal his whereabouts? Or deceived into it? Or is she vastly more ingenious than anyone has given her credit for? Could the furore surrounding the pictures be merely a cloak for some vastly more destructive scheme not entirely hers?
Download or read book Tales of Mi7 written by J. J. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By universal consensus, there is only one exhibition worth seeing at this year's Venice Biennale, Giuditta Cancellieri's Il Timore di Dio, consisting of six paintings of something as yet undisclosed to anyone. Don't bother buying tickets, though. A local authority injunction means no one's getting in, not even the artist's closest associates. Since the announcement of Il Timore's inclusion in the festival, the city has been filling with felons, and most commentators don't think that's an accident. For Signorina Cancellieri is no ordinary artist. A twenty-five year old AIDS-victim from one of the toughest districts of Naples, she's also closely linked to one of MI7's old enemies, Constantius Sopa. As things come to a head, Agent Gavin Freedman is dispatched from London to find out just how intimate the link between Giuditta Cancellieri and Constantius Sopa is. Can she be persuaded to reveal his whereabouts? Or deceived into it? Or is she vastly more ingenious than anyone has given her credit for? Could the furore surrounding the pictures be merely a cloak for some vastly more destructive scheme not entirely hers?
Download or read book Death in a Half Foreign Country written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today.” – Publisher’s Daily “John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget.” – The Booklife Review When John Mordred leaves MI7, marries the woman he loves, and settles down to a relatively humdrum lifestyle, it ought to be a brave new start. But he and his wife have formerly been top-level spies, and they find the readjustment harder than they anticipated. When - courtesy of a friend, and apparently out of the blue - they’re offered an all-expenses-paid holiday in Malta, it seems the answer to both their prayers. Sunshine, relaxation and romance. Just what the doctor ordered. But Malta's no ordinary tourist-trap. Hidden cameras, none-too-subtle intimations of blackmail, and the murder of a professional acquaintance send them reeling back to Britain; back to what they dearly hope will be a snug 9 to 5 normality. But there's a limit to how often they can walk away. Especially when any number of foreign intelligence agencies now have hostile eyes on them. They were once two of Britain's best assets; they're currently untethered from central control; they're fair game. And actually, come to think if it, this is an excellent time to put an assassin on their tail. Get rid of them both, once and for all. “James Ward brings protagonist John Mordred alive on the page … The author displays exceptional ability when it comes to storytelling.” – Emerald Book Review
Download or read book The Eastern Ukraine Question written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of the John Mordred novels! “Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today.” – Publisher’s Daily “John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget.” – The Booklife Review A cabal of Russian oligarchs instigates unrest in the far east of Russia as the first stage of an attempt to unseat Vladimir Putin. Britain offers covert support in the form of five MI7 agents. The disturbances mirror those in Eastern Ukraine and, if pushed far enough, might persuade the Kremlin to retract its territorial interests in Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. However, once the five operatives are shipped east, events take an unexpected turn. One by one, they begin to disappear. Enter Grey Department’s John Mordred, by grudging consensus, MI7’s best agent. Young, idiosyncratic and a linguistic genius, Mordred prefers diplomacy to battle, doing the right thing to defending the realm. Yet he won’t necessarily duck a confrontation. Especially when the lives of his co-agents are at stake. Which – given the job description - they usually are … “James Ward brings protagonist John Mordred alive on the page … The author displays exceptional ability when it comes to storytelling.” – Emerald Book Review. The Eastern Ukraine Question was written in 2014, at the same time as the events which form its backdrop.
Download or read book The Girl from Kandahar written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF’s most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike. Or at least, that’s what the official report states. Deep inside enemy territory, what remains of her body is deemed irrecoverable. Seven thousand miles away, in Britain, her grieving husband, MI7 Officer Nicholas Fleming, joins a police investigation which stumbles onto an Islamist plot to bomb central London. Handed responsibility for the counter-terrorism initiative, he uncovers evidence that one of the bombers is his wife. By degrees, the utterly unbelievable becomes plausible and, at last, undeniable. Questions such as what really happened to her become academic as love and duty are rendered incompatible. To save the lives of hundreds of innocent people, Fleming must order the destruction of the only woman he has ever loved. To make matters worse, there is evidence that she is slowly recovering her memory … The Girl From Kandahar is a love story played out on both sides of the War on Terror. Its detailed understanding of Pashtun culture and Islam is matched by a corresponding recognition of Western motives and concerns. Above all, it deals with the human side of the conflict: families split, loved ones lost, communities broken, distrust, hostility, grief. Yet its prognosis is far from bleak. In the end, it may be that no ideology is as powerful as the simple truth that our best hope lies in each other.
Download or read book Libya Story written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mordred doesn’t want to leave MI7’s Red Department, but then life has a way of making him do things he’d rather not. When his youngest sister gets kidnapped in one of the world’s worst war-zones, everyone agrees he’s the ideal person to mount a rescue... only protocol forbids it. Yet while resigning might be easy, getting out of the UK isn’t. Not when the police and the intelligence services have been warned to stop him by every means at their disposal. Even assuming he can overcome that, getting into Libya is going to be even more of a challenge. Not to mention staying alive when he arrives there. And then, actually finding his sister. Libya’s a big country, after all, and it’s mostly desert. So many obstacles, such a lot at stake. It’s going to take a shipload of luck. And probably a miracle. Or three. Or ten. In the meantime, he’s got a lot of friends in all sorts of places. And one thing he’s always known: there are good people everywhere and, with sufficient goodwill, alliances for justice – no matter how improbable – are always achievable.
Download or read book Humankind 2 0 written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s early 2020. MI7 is expecting an eccentric new recruit in the person of Chasha Jones, self-described (only partly tongue-in-cheek) as "the most intelligent woman in London." Perceptive, cerebral, fun to work alongside, everyone looks forward to her arrival. But on the day she's due to start work, there's no sign of her. Nor the day after. Then shockingly, it turns out she's joined an obscure cult run by an eccentric Briton called Hector Raynebow. Raynebow used to be a dedicated eco-warrior, but he's ditched environmentalism on the grounds that humanity, in its present form, isn't really capable of saving the world: the rot has gone too far. But don't worry, he has a solution: Humankind 2.0, a new type of human being, developed by means of cutting-edge gene technology. The trouble is, when more than a few governments encounter the words, "a new type of human being", what they actually hear is "super-soldiers". And their only question then is, assuming Raynebow really is capable of developing such things, who’s going to get their hands on them first? John Mordred is assigned to investigate. But of course, he's not the only one. And to make things even cosier, the investigators are explicitly briefed not to get on with each other.
Download or read book The New Europeans written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bitterly-contested referendum on European integration means the continent’s future is up for grabs again. But what sinister dreams and visions lurk in the shadows this time? In a field crowded with disappointing tomes, what a pleasure it was to read The New Europeans (John Mordred Book 5), and be introduced to something exceptional and quintessentially British! An absolutely unputdownable book. – Emerald Book Reviews “John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget!” – The Booklife Review London, 2016, and the lead-up to the EU referendum. The liberal consensus in Europe is breaking down and no one knows exactly what will replace it. As always, there are those with an eye to the main chance. In the course of investigating the disappearance of a prominent Eurosceptic MP, MI7 agent John Mordred finds himself under hostile scrutiny from obscure figures within his own organisation. It quickly turns out that his investigation and theirs may not be entirely independent of each other. Behind all the intrigues, arguments and accusations, much greater, darker forces are coming into play. Forces whose existence hardly anyone suspects. … Yet. And the stakes are high enough to make even MI7’s best agent dispensable. Set (and written) in the run-up to the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, The New Europeans deals with the shifting global power-balance in the second decade of the 21st century.
Download or read book A New Theory of Justice and Other Essays written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is justice best understood as flowing from a social contract, or is there something else going on? How can we explain the many divergent notions of justice throughout history? Is it even possible to give a separate account of justice (as opposed to, say, social convention or morality)? These are some of the questions considered in A New Theory of Justice. But there are other essays in here, other questions, and other (tentative) answers. Is it possible to talk about ‘God’ anymore? What kinds of minds do animals have, and how could we ever find out? And what about free-will: is it just a story we tell ourselves to help us navigate life and stay sane? Or not? The author has a master’s degree and a DPhil, both in Philosophy.
Download or read book The BBC Hunters written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019. Russia's Web Brigades have created a divided West, but both the European and the American intelligence services are getting wise to their tactics. When Stanislav Kuznetsov, the FSB’s Director of Overseas Strategic Affairs, entrusts a group of young idealists with the task of devising the next phase in the disruption of Russia’s enemies, little does he suspect that six weeks later, they’ll come up with a plan to suborn the British Broadcasting Corporation. His first reaction is mingled incredulity and exasperation. Have they taken leave of their senses? But then he studies the details. And actually, it’s not as far-fetched as it looks. In fact it's entirely workable. It might even be worth passing off as his own idea... Which, technically speaking, is intellectual property theft, and certain to offend the hard-working members of his young focus group. One night, by way of showing how angry they are, they all disappear from Moscow simultaneously. Which is bad enough. But what makes it far worse is that there’s evidence to suggest they’re intent on contacting a British MI7 agent called John Mordred. Talk about getting their revenge. This could be the crisis to end all crises. Heads will definitely roll.
Download or read book The Ultimate Londoner written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agent John Mordred gets a nasty shock when he finds himself touted in the press as one of ten potential “Ultimate Londoners”. Especially given that he’s spent his entire adult life trying to pass beneath the radar of just about anyone with a camera or a microphone. Yet with a five million pound prize-pot at stake, plus an awards ceremony on the top floor of The Gherkin, it’s clearly no joke. MI7 looks into it as a matter of urgency, and things go from strange to stranger. For a start, no one in the mainstream media or elsewhere has the faintest idea where it originated. And not even the ‘candidates’ themselves know how they were selected. For Mordred, the unsolicited exposure is profoundly unwelcome. But maybe that’s the whole idea. So far, so irritating. And inconvenient. Then the candidates start dying. As Mordred investigates, the truth slowly emerges. And it’s weirder and more deadly than anyone could possibly have imagined. The Ultimate Londoner. Who will you vote for? “John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget.” – The Booklife Review
Download or read book The Social Magus written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows UK general elections aren’t what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate. Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that it has galvanised the young and apathetic. And it apparently has the establishment running scared. Yet RA may be more vulnerable than it looks. Who’s funding it? No one quite knows. If its backers are foreign, that would constitute a clear breach of electoral commission rules. Which would please a lot of people in Whitehall. Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate. What looks at first like a routine probe becomes much more than that when he discovers that his own sister and the party’s leader are what used to be called (in less cynical times) “in love”. And especially when he finds out that, for reasons unknown, someone determined and very ruthless wants them dead. Suddenly the political becomes lethally personal.
Download or read book World War O written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “World War Offshore” – no one knows how it started, or who’s behind it, but one thing’s for certain: it’s the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across six continents, demanding an end to the “non-accountability of the 1%”, re-regulation of the world’s financial services, and a new era of social justice. MI7 takes the view that it’s a problem best left to the appropriate law enforcement agencies – with the exception of one little detail. In order to get off the ground so effectively, its organisers had to bypass GCHQ in Britain, and the NSA in America. A breathtakingly impressive achievement, and possibly an ominous one. Next time, whoever does that may not be so benign. Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate. His enquiry takes him halfway across the globe before depositing him in the Crown dependency of Jersey for what looks like a war of attrition. And then, completely out of the blue, there’s a breakthrough. Written before the publication of either the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers, World War O tackles one of the most hotly-debated topics of recent times. Taxation and corporate wealth. Just what, if anything, do the rich owe to the poor?
Download or read book Revenge of the Cootie Girls written by Sparkle Hayter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Halloween, TV news producer Robin Hudson takes a deadly stroll down memory lane in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter’s profoundly funny mystery, which Janet Evanovich hailed as “sexy, irreverent, and wacky” Things are looking up for Robin Hudson. She’s been promoted, her nonmonogamous love life is cruising along, and her cat is making decent money as an advertising spokesfeline. It’s time for a girls’ night out. And what better night than Halloween? Bad decision. Robin plans to meet up with her gal pals and her new intern, Kathy, in a Times Square bar. But Kathy doesn’t show. According to a phone message, she’s trapped in a married man’s closet. Turns out Kathy was chasing a story for Robin. As Robin and her posse track Kathy’s last movements, they find strategically placed notes that refer to Robin’s teenage past, when she and her best friend, Julie, were class outcasts, also known as the cootie girls. Now an evening of trick or treat turns into an encounter with real and present danger as Robin is plunged into a morass of money-laundering mobsters, mayhem, and murder that could get a nice girl killed. The Robin Hudson Mystery series is a winner of the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective. Revenge of the Cootie Girls is the 3rd book in the Robin Hudson Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Fatal Revenge Or The Family of Montorio written by Charles Robert Maturin and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
