If you like a good prison yarn, or if you or a loved one has ever thought about working in a prison or residing in one, this book is a must! Working in a correctional setting is like no other job in the world. One lives in eight hours increments with convicted criminals that most folks want nowhere near them. If you do no not work in a prison or similar setting, imagine spending your work day around murders, rapist, child molesters, robbers, and those who would love to spit on your sandwic...

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...

In 2024 London is reeling from a series of terrorist attacks weakening confidence in the UK economy which has recovered well from the impact of Brexit and the Covid 19 pandemic. Police and MI5 struggle to apprehend the perpetrators. Major Sam Brent and Captain Jack Tomkins, formerly of the UK Special Forces, are recruited to assist MI5. Investigations suggest the attacks are the work of a Jihadi group and mysterious business men backers with ulterior motive. Sam and Jack use their speciali...

Six elderly Parachute Regiment soldiers have been convicted of alleged illegal killings many years ago during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement granted an amnesty to Republicans and the IRA for their illegal killings but not British soldiers. An appeal against their convictions has been denied by the Supreme Court condemning them to long term imprisonment with the prospect of likely dying in prison. There is much public and military disquiet at this situation. The...

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,...

A leading London criminal gang hires Russian hackers to make a cyber-attack on the Metropolitan Police's telecommunications systems preventing effective policing of the Capital city. This facilitates a huge surge in criminal activity damaging the Capital's financial and tourist industries with many public injuries and loss of life. The Government and security services are stymied. However, a group of retired senior military officers recruit Major Sam Brent to lead a group of special forces...

Six elderly Parachute Regiment soldiers have been convicted of alleged illegal killings many years ago during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement granted an amnesty to Republicans and the IRA for their illegal killings but not British soldiers. An appeal against their convictions has been denied by the Supreme Court condemning them to long term imprisonment with the prospect of likely dying in prison. There is much public and military disquiet at this situation. The...

A Ukrainian paramilitary group makes a series of terrorist attacks against the UK’s Special Boat Service to weaken their operational capability and facilitate the theft of a new British ballistic submarine armed with tactical nuclear weapons. The stolen submarine threatens Russia with nuclear attack seeking the repatriation of the Crimea to Ukraine. Major Sam Brent and Captain Jack Tomkins are drawn out of retirement and whilst seconded to MI5 also embed in special forces operations to ass...

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...

Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism.Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication...

We-Topia is the true and shocking story of how ego conquered the world. From happier, healthier, and more spiritually evolved nomadic ancestors to a selfish globalized world that exploits, divides, and petrifies today, We-Topia explores how a powerless society has always been part of the plan. And it's worked. Across the millennia, society gradually devalued human consciousness while social systems such as slavery, money, and religion turned people into resources. Now, like a James Bond vi...

The breathtaking geological wonder known as Stone Mountain has enchanted people since the age of the Paleo-Indians. Today, Stone Mountain Park annually attracts four million visitors from around the world. Hiking trails showcase rugged granite outcrops with hardy mountain plants, such as endearing yellow daisies. Majestic red-tailed hawks soar overhead. A storied past comes to life through an engaging park quarry exhibit, a historic railroad experience and an epic Confederate Memorial carv...