-The Dragon's Breath-'The Dragon's Breath'— what could sound more oriental than that? The Dragon's Breath is the name of a Restaurant in the Cabramatta suburb of Sydney, N.S.W. managed and owned by the proprietor, Ling Duig who by all appearances is a wealthy, well respected gentleman of Asian nationalization. However beneath this mantle of respectability there is another side to this oriental man's hitherto unheard of past. Duig was at one time during the war torn shores of Vietna...

Reginald Bryan Kelso a well known former Detective Sergeant of Police and now an equally well known and respected Private Investigator operating from the city of Toowoomba, Queensland, is retained by a Melbourne nightclub owner to locate his adolescence daughter who absconded from their palatial Bayside home in Melbourne to somewhere in the vicinity of Cairns, North Queensland. As Kelso's inquiries began to unfold for the run-a-way schoolgirl in and around Cairns he begins to discover and ...

This narrative surrounds a 58 foot fibre-glass yacht named Calypso Queen and its flamboyant owner, a person suffering from an incurable gambling syndrome and a problem he desperately attempted to stop. However, through circumstances of his own making, instead he enters into the world of trafficking in dangerous drugs to alleviate a dangerous financial situation he subsequently found himself in. It is even more remarkable when looking into the background of Dunstan Hayes the owner of Calyps...

Over the past five decades there have been many unexplained UFO sightings in Australia and most other parts of the world. Many of them came under the category of 'Encounters of a Third Kind' where contact had been made with Aliens from another planet. Frightening and unexplained experiences have been allegedly investigated by different Government organizations with never a solution as to how, when or why. For whatever reason, the matters investigated slowly died a natural death. There was ...

The Kiwi Connection is a thrilling read from start to finish and follows William Stewart from New Zealand to Australia with his parents when he was 10 years of age.He excelled in school, as well as boxing, representing Victoria over a period of years. Due to a lack of parental guidance he became involved with a hoodlum element in Melbourne.This life of crime eventually found him in jail with a Chinese Cambodian drug dealer for a cell mate, where he learned everything he needed to kn...

What makes a great detective? What is the insatiable passion that drives them onward, patiently, analytically and meticulously examining all alternatives before arriving at sensible conclusions, displaying exceptional loyalty to one another is all depicted within these writings, with the anxieties, visions and fierce determination for truth and justice? Brian Reginald Kelso known to all who knew him as 'The Gentle Giant' became a successful and well-known private investigator operating fro...

Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs.Throw in heat, dust and flies and it’s not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you’re Senior Constable Neale McShane, who has single-handedly taken care of a beat the size of Victoria for the past ten years. Recently retired from this ‘hardship posting’, Neale and his ...

The daring adventures of a New Zealand search and rescue pilot. 'Somewhere, up ahead, a person is bleeding, but you have to put that out of your mind. Your job is negotiating with time and space. You have your clock, that person has their own, and in the end, whether the rate at which your clock is clicking matches theirs is out of your control.' John Funnell is one of New Zealand's longest serving search and rescue pilots. Often referred to as a 'search and rescue daredev...

Air travel is an almost essential part of everyday life. A significant proportion of travelers are curious about what is actually happening on the flight deck. This book, based on forty years of personal experiences, takes the reader into the cockpit.Written in a humorous style, it relates incidents, accidents and some romantic attachments. The narrative includes the transport of a complete circus, a period spent flying for an African mining company, a brush with Nigerian authoriti...

The planet is warming up and as the ice caps melt, the great currents of the oceans shift and the Northern Hemisphere is plunged into a new ice age. One scientist has the key to turning back the clock of global warming.But as Western civilisation succumbs to blizzards and tidal waves and the population of the Northern hemisphere begins a mass exodus south, mankind's only saviour is making a lonely, terror-filled trip north. To a New York disappearing under snowdrifts hundreds of fe...

'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping as the finest thriller' – Peter James, author of One of Us Is DeadDiscover the truth beyond the police tape in What Lies Beneath, the arresting memoir of murder, investigation and justice from Peter Faulding, a world-leading forensic search expert.Recovering bodies, finding discarded remains, ...

Flight to St Antony is a modern accurate aviation mystery/thriller where the detective Peter Talbert, an aviation insurance expert, is instrumental in solving the reason why an airliner with over two hundred people on board is forced to ditch at night in the Caribbean near the island of St Antony. There are only a few survivors, all from the rear of the aircraft and they were saved through the efforts of two stewardesses. Talbert is helped in his investigation by one of the stewardesses bu...