THE ZHANG MEDALLION published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONSDromore Island – a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, home to an Italian cosmetics factory and a small colony of hippies.When the local community guard – only a few weeks into his first ever posting – falls to his death from a cliff, his girlfriend writes to the police commissioner claiming his death was not an accident. He had told her of his suspicions about the activities of some of the people on the island a...

RANDOM NUMBER…This was the chance they had gambled on…The bomb was hidden deep in the hotel's basement two years earlier on spec. Now the Washington hotel is to host a US government sponsored Middle East peace conference.Ten year-old Hussein Shaffeed's father and his stepmother are members of a group of radicals planning to activate the bomb!In a small town just outside Washington DC, ten year-old Abi Swenson is at home, recovering between bouts of chemothera...

When the youngest daughter of the Vice-President of the United States comes to Ireland for a summer course at the Kilkenny College of Art and Design, her visit interests a lot of people.Asad Bin Shalwah, a Syrian refugee working in Dublin, whose daughter was killed in Syria, wants to deliver a message to the American president. His cousin, Jamal Oswam and his fellow members of an extreme resistance group in Syria, see it as an opportunity to strike back at the Americans.Peter...

THE SCHIAPELLO CROSS…Santini watched in awe as his father took the Christ figure and laid it on the cross. With delicate manipulation of the plunger, he soldered the figure to the stem without allowing any excess molten gold to drip from the joint.Leaving the cross aside, he picked up the small golden band and with the same painstaking precision, attached a circle of diamonds, taking great care with each. The band was then fixed to the cross over the head of the crucified C...