This interesting book about the motor industry was first published in 2009. It traces Peter Cleary’s career, starting as a trainee at Ford South Africa where he held positions in personnel, marketing and product planning and did three overseas postings to World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, the Dunton Research Centre of Ford of Europe in Kent, England and to Ford Asia-Pacific in Melbourne, Australia. Cleary’s second automotive employer was Mercedes-Benz of South Africa where he became...

Racked with guilt at his part in the tragic events that occurred at the Black Mountain Mine in the Northern Cape, Jack McCall withdraws from society, hiding himself at a remote lodge near the Brandberg Mountain Massif. For three years he works as their maintenance man, shunning contact with anyone who could identify him with the past Then three events happen in quick succession. The first is an act of nature. Near the lodge where he works there is a large flock of sandgrouse. They regularl...

Adam Geard is drawn into the area of simmering insurrection in the Palma district of Mozambique in an attempt to rescue an old team mate from Iraq who has been kidnapped. What he finds is the deep secret of more than two decades of a drug trade which routes heroin from those northern ports for transhipment into South Africa and onward to European and Australasian markets. His activities make him a target for those involved in the trade and those who support and sustain it, including the se...

A basic guide for startups with 15 hot tips to guide you through the process of planning, strategising and launching your new business from a branding perspective. This is for you if you have a great business idea that you’re sure will sell. You want to leave your full-time employment and start up your own business from home but don’t know where to begin. The information here is based on over 25 years of experience as a freelance graphic designer working with startups and helping them laun...

Nic Riley had everything going for him: a promising career, a beautiful home, a successful wife, and a loving daughter. But he wanted and needed more, and it drove him to an irrational act that telescoped him into another sphere, one in which there were no absolutes. The new road he took contained great risk, to his life and his soul, a lonely road filled with the pain of separation, of guilt and loss, but one which could lead to self-clemency, perhaps even to be accorded a victory.

After a harrowing year in Namibia during which time his best-friend and close companion, Heidi Kinder is murdered to get back at him, Adam Geard returns to the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. His hope is to live for some time in a small town to recover his sense of community and purpose, and he chooses the Karoo town of Steytlerville. But dual crimes of family murder and extortion test his sense of justice and he cannot avoid involvement. The extortion is of an attractive and vulner...

In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.For an intelligence officer like Jim, it’s a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England’s interests. It’s hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim.A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war wi...

This book is the intimate diary of a girl who was born in England, but grew up in Colonial and post-Colonial "up-country" Kenya after her parents travelled overland across the Sahara Desert in 1947/1948.Her working life led her to meet prominent people in Kenya's Government. She ran a business in Mombasa, on Kenya's coast. Briefly, she and her partner worked for an "Aid Transportation Company" in the port of Assab, Eritrea, where they lived in a tent - better accommodation than the...

Michael Saint was convicted at an East London Court for printing the largest amount of foreign currency ever found in Britain. The currency was Spanish pesetas and he was sentenced to six years imprisonment. In the dock with him stood John Dean, Sylvia Smith and a Grass. Born into a poor East London Family, Michael Saint became the most successful forger in British history. Michael manages to laugh at himself and you will laugh along with him. Humour has replaced mindless violence and foul...

A Second World War novel set in Africa and Europe featuring submarines, spies and treasure from a sunken galleon.It’s a must-read, brand-new historical WW2 thriller novel set within Africa – an ideal book for fans of crime, naval or warfare fiction from authors such as John Buchan, Wilbur Smith and Rider Haggard.A murder in present day England leads to the discovery of a plot to revenge a wartime death in South Africa. Penny, the niece of the victim, pits her wits against t...

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give!“This house of correction is booby-trapped with twists, thefloors paved with trapdoors, quicksand churning in the garden. Enter if youdare.” –A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Woman in the Window“Full of unexpected turns . . . Immensely satisfying.” – TheNew York T...

An unforgettable Ben Hope thriller from the #1 bestseller.Life is good for ex-SAS soldier and rescue specialist Ben Hope. He’s found love, peace and happiness at last… That is, until a man he’s never seen before sits beside him on a plane, and makes him a proposal that turns his whole world upside down.Now Ben must embark on a deadly mission to eliminate a former SAS comrade, the enigmatic, elusive and highly capable Jaden Wolf. If Ben fails, the people he cares about will ...