The Santa Claus Chronicles offer a view of Life based on simple Logic. Logic is the "formal" expression of common sense. It is part of Mathematics. Mathematics, as you know, also spreads into uncommon sense, Differential Equations for example, which we happily leave to the Mathematicians. But everyone knows about counting, and the universally famous Counting Numbers, also called the Natural Numbers—1,2,3, . . . and so on, onward to as large a Number as you like. Numbers are the first expre...

This is a story of a young boy whose life changed when his parents got divorced. He tells his story about moving to a new place, new school and meeting new people.

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of Lobster Boy.By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker—and killer—of prostitutes.Smithers's twisted double life came to light when a local wom...

The Russian ‘Special Military Operation’ to invade Ukraine and incorporate the country back into the Russian sphere of influence has stalled. The continuing cost of the war is degrading the Russian economy. The President decides to open another front by recruiting Russian oligarchs to use their own funds in a coordinated cartel to short the UK currency on the foreign exchange markets, thereby weakening the support of the western allies for the Ukrainian war effort. Sam Brent is serving as ...

The disappearance of the Vale of Buckingham Ramblers Group on a Sunday walk prompts a police search for the missing walkers. They are not found and a wider search net is cast but without success. The police suspect the walkers have been abducted. The walk leader’s sister, Sarah Mills, is a serving medical officer in the SAS and with her partner, Sam Brent, a retired major from the SBS, they discover the farm location where the walkers were taken. A regional search locates the walkers and t...

Sam Brent and his partner, Sarah Mills, enter a Sunday classic car rally. During the afternoon rally section in a thunderstorm their car is struck by lightning that creates a rift in space transporting them into a parallel dimension. Their car is disabled and they leave it to explore and discover another advanced species inhabiting an Earth-like environment but with many reversed features. They are held prisoner and prevented from trying to return home. However their dimension shift is uns...

A newly formed terrorist group, the Scottish Nationalist Army, begins a series of attacks damaging infrastructure links between Scotland and England in furtherance of the campaign for Scottish independence. Sam Brent and Jack Tomkins stumble into key evidence when recovering Sam’s stolen military medals and lend their support to the police and security agencies. Public, media and political responses gradually discredit the SNA attacks and the terrorists are eventually apprehended. However,...

Unity and the Flame of Love illustrates that God never gives up on His children. His deepest desire is to draw everyone to himself. From Adam to Jesus, and from the apostles to the present Flame of Love movement, the Lord continues to work for our salvation. We have been invited to become helpers of Jesus and Mary. Every believer knows that we need God, and we should pray to God for assistance in our needs. The mystery of the Flame of Love movement is that the Lord Jesus and the B...

Short story (or character sketch) about Sam, from my novel, Syzygy. Nice little story even if you didn't read Syzygy, especially if you're Catholic. :) Takes place after Syzygy.Sam is a deacon on his way to becoming a priest. With Sam's too casual manner and messy appearance, Father O'Malley worries the young man doesn't have what it takes to make a holy priest. But Sam is more than he seems.

Unity and the Flame of Love illustrates that God never gives up on His children. His deepest desire is to draw everyone to himself. From Adam to Jesus, and from the apostles to the present Flame of Love movement, the Lord continues to work for our salvation. We have been invited to become helpers of Jesus and Mary. Every believer knows that we need God, and we should pray to God for assistance in our needs. The mystery of the Flame of Love movement is that the Lord Jesus and the B...

Saved by the Flame of Love, reveals differences between God and humanity that are difficult and even impossible at times to reconcile. We pray the Our Father saying, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” If only it were that simple to submit our wills to the will of God.Water and fire, necessary for salvation and capable of destruction, they are instruments used by God to save souls. This book speaks of how the Lord destroys in order to save, a...