Bookshelf
Here you can start your journey into the worlds my characters inhabit. Travel with them as they face the challenges of the realities that might have been…
SPIN
Photographer Peter Conway’s deepest fear is that his father’s madness runs in his own blood. But when the old man is murdered he discovers his true inheritance is far worse. His father’s ravings acquire threateningly tangible form and shadows from the past bring violence, intrigue and death. He is drawn inexorably into the twilight world of the spin-doctors, where political and business affairs are being shaped with merciless scientific precision by people who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets. Suddenly his life depends on making sense of shifting realities where truth is merely an inconvenience and friendship goes hand in hand with betrayal. He thinks he knows who he can trust – but will they believe him, and how can he be sure his thoughts are his own?
Conflicts of Interest
Greed laced with ambition is the explosive fuel of international commerce, and the wheels are greased with slippery words like integrity and ethics. A firm of international management consultants is no exception, much as partner David Tyler would prefer to believe otherwise. When a colleague is murdered and his own future is on the line, he is forced to confront fundamental conflicts of interest that threaten to destroy the firm from within.
Faced with professional ruin and betrayed by colleagues he had counted as friends, David Tyler finds himself engaged in a deadly race against time to find a way to expose a conspiracy without wrecking his career and the firm in the process. There is an answer – if he can survive long enough to blackmail a friend to tell the truth and bluff his enemies into telling the right kind of lies…
Cash & Burn
The management consultancy handbook doesn’t spell out what to do when a bomb sends your client’s premises up in flames and your project manager is accused of planting it. Nor does it suggest a course of action if the cash for your flagship project turns out to come from drug-running international terrorists. Blake & Moorfield partner David Tyler must figure out the answers fast if he is to keep himself and his family alive – let alone hang on to his sanity and his career. Those answers are hidden deep in the the Middle-Eastern battlefields of the Islamic Caliphate and the murky world of the international intelligence agencies. But David Tyler’s reputation as the Firm’s top rainmaker hasn’t been lightly earned. To keep the fees rolling in he reckons you have to make your own luck. And this time all it takes is a betrayal, a spot of blackmail and a murder…
LUCK
A toxic blend of grief, guilt and suspicion drives management consultant David Tyler to investigate the shocking suicide of his best friend. The trail leads through Capetown’s glittering high society, the goldfields of Johannesburg and the untamed bush of Malawi. There he discovers the hard way that his business partner is conniving with terrorists plotting bloody revolution across southern Africa, who will stop at nothing to keep the secret. And if that was not terrifying enough the girl his wife has decided to go into business with turns out to be a Chinese spy with revolution in mind by the quieter but equally deadly means of cyber-warfare. With both their lives and careers now on the line David realises there is only one way to avert the looming catastrophe. He must bend his principles and the rules to the breaking point, but if he makes the right choices he might just be lucky enough to step in and scoop the jackpot…
DESIGN
A Chinese cyber-warfare attack on Britain’s newest nuclear power station threatens a catastrophic meltdown. For computer specialist Rosalind Tyler, though, preventing a radioactive Armageddon means betraying a friend and triggers a meltdown of a different kind. Her actions could not only destroy her own business but bring down the global management consultancy firm led by her husband David. Both are inextricably entwined with a Chinese spy turned double agent, whose computer know-how is at the heart of their fortunes and reputations. With Ling Xiang’s position now compromised and the British Secret Service desperate to protect what they see as their key asset in an ongoing cyber war with China, old loyalties crumble. Different agendas play out as the protagonists fight to protect their own interests and work out who to trust. Meanwhile, however, Ling Xiang is shaping events to her own design, a design that will ultimately shatter all their dreams…
