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International terrorists again threaten Hawaii but this time they also have three cops in their sights - Kali, Nui and Mano. A sequel to Mano.

The heat is turned on in more ways than one when the Mayor's daughter is killed by a serial arsonist. The NYPD and NYFD must lay aside traditional differences to solve a crime that cuts too close to the bone. A searing read from the author of Manhunt and Plainclothes.

A book that examines war fiction as told in books and films. My own works are mentioned as well as powerful writers working within that field and a look at the history of such writing.

Exile continues the story of The Nationalists as Tony McAnthony, the journalist, settles into his new life in America and the timeline advances through the roaring twenties, the thirties, the war years, and the Kennedy years in the sixties and seventies. Many of the characters that appeared in The Nationalists will also play a role in this new work, in particular, that of Pairic O'Toole who left soldiering behind to become a Franciscan and who finds himself incarcerated in Auschwitz during the war years. New characters are also introduced like Big Emily, a teacher in the US with a new ...

There is a deep, rich vein of spirituality running through The Scribe, a novel that resurrects the life of Luke the Evangelist. After the crucifixion of Jesus, in its immediate aftermath, a young widower and member of the Sanhedrin becomes disillusioned with the high priests and begins to adopt a Christian way of thinking. Forced to leave Jerusalem, he finds himself in a time that heralded the birth of the gospels.

A killer is loose aboard a Virginia class submarine, and it's a race against time for Captain Russell Grant to find him. With the USS Obama on a war footing, Captain Russell Grant takes extraordinary measures to pin down the murderer before morale plummets aboard and his mission is scuppered beyond repair. He promotes a female member of the crew to chief warrant officer, and she's soon joined in her investigation by two federal agents specially flown out to examine the circumstances.

The Secrets of Age follows Larry Lir as he attempts to aid more children, this time from Myanmar. The Secrets of Age follows on from Orphans, and once again, Larry is forced to use his black magic skills to overcome his ruthless adversaries. An important message about human rights again underpins this story. This time, Larry is up against ruthless agents from Myanmar. Will he employ his black magic to overcome his adversaries this time?

In the wake of the Stalker and Sampson inquiries and the Good Friday Agreement, a new threat emerges from the heartland of Belfast to threaten the peace process. Renegades opposed to the process form a splinter group designed to wreck the peace process. The British send in an expendable chief superintendent to investigate the group, and his high ideals are shattered by a betrayal from the very top of the establishment.

Described by one reviewer as "bloody accurate", The Nationalists is an Irish story set against the bloody backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War. From the author of The Scribe, The Soaring Spirit, Kolbe, and Land of Our Father comes a sweeping new novel that spans the turbulent years in Irish history - 1916 to 1923. It tells the story of a doomed love affair between a revolutionary journalist and a headstrong Kerry-born Cumann na mBan girl.

Following the beast from the east snowstorm, two young Irish children encounter a Snownun who imparts important lessons to them about survival, civic issues, and polar opposites like life and death. It's a book about teaching children the importance of life in this world and in heaven beyond. It teaches something about diversity and illness, about generosity of spirit and helping others less fortunate in society, and ultimately it shows something of the values of friendship and family love.

The tale is a post-911 piece and concerns the hunt for an ISIS terrorist cell intent on carrying out a dirty bomb attack on the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. The group is led by the fanatical Hakim, a Saudi terrorist who used to work as an executioner in his home country. When he finds out that there is a tough cop called Mano out to stop him, he makes a near-fatal error of judgement by ordering a hit on one of Hawaii's top cops - a move that will bring in the FBI and homeland security - and makes Mano aware of the threat against him.

With the USS Obama again on a war footing, NCIS agent Jennifer Hobbs races against time to stave off a nuclear conflagration. Somebody has declared war on the US by targeting its new space program.

Larry is left an orphan following the brutal murder of his parents. When three Cuban children, recently orphaned themselves, appeal to Larry for help, he has to take up their case. Larry - a 12-year-old who fends mostly for himself in a rambling mansion on the Hill of Howth, in Dublin - is a direct descendant the Children of Lir, and a curse from their time hangs over Larry.

King Brian is a tale of 10th century Ireland, and King Brian Boru's push to unite all of Ireland under one banner to defeat a common enemy - the Vikings.

Ricky Weir is a man with a past. He returns to Vietnam, a country he once hated to work on its biodiversity programs and hopes that by doing so he can help to repair some of the damage he had inflicted in his younger, earlier days. Ricky had been a flight lieutenant with the USAF tasked with spreading Agent Orange over large parts of Vietnam. The story explores how he was shot down and imprisoned in Hanoi before being repatriated back to the States when the war was over. In some ways Hana Nguyen is a woman with a past but it is a past that she doesn't like talking about. A microbiologist, ...

A German mountain unit is teamed with a Finnish soldier and Olympic champion to capture Murmansk and cut off Allied supplies to the Russians. Partially based on a true story, Operation Silver Fox, involved Finnish 111 Corps collaborating with German units to capture Salla, and then Murmansk. A war story set against searing cold and old and bitter antagonisms.

Ten years after the crucifixion of Jesus, Rome awakes to the threat of Christianity and appoints Marc Procus, a renowned Vigilis, to investigate the new movement and to quiz anyone remotely connected to it, including Pontius Pilate. Hauled from examining the cold case of Julius Caesar, Marc Procus has been summoned and tasked with tracking down all leading elements of the new Christianity movement which has been spreading its tentacles all over the known world. Procus embarks on a series of perilous sea journeys throughout the Mediterranean - an area known to the Romans as Mare Nostrum. Our...

From the author of The Nationalists and The Scribe comes War, a mix of action and war stories, some with an Irish slant like The Pitboys, a tale of two young Irish lads working the coalmines of Tipperary at a time of great social upheaval - the Young Irelander rebellion and the Irish famine. Many of the stories are told from the perspective of the Second World War, but not exclusively so. Stories about modern conflicts also surface - the Gulf War, the Yugoslavia conflict and the Israeli and Palestinian conflicts. In a time of War, nobody's innocent.

A plot to destroy the European Union. A plot to cause anarchy. The Russian Premier assassinated. Things are hotting up in the Med' between the USS Obama, HMS Spearfish and the Snow Leopard a Russian nuclear submarine. A deadly assassin and a Syrian paramilitary outfit led by a ruthless man test Ivan O'Rourke, an Irish diplomat working to solve the crisis, to his very limits and when an American agent is found dead in Syria, NCIS Agent Jennifer Hobbs finds herself back aboard the Obama attempting to thwart another nuclear conflagration.

Darerca is the sister of Saint Patrick and a holy woman in her own right. It's said that she married twice and that her seventeen sons became bishops and that her daughters also followed saintly paths. The tale opens in the late 4th century before sweeping into the 5th and closing in the 6th just as the monasteries were growing stronger. The story is an expansion of my earlier work 'Paddy' and indeed may incorporate that fine work. A tale of early Ireland. From the author of Paddy, King Brian, The Scribe, The Nationalists, Exile, and Vigilis,The Soaring Spirit and Land of Our Father amongst...