Tensions erupt across Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths when a coveted artifact is stolen from Jerusalem in this international conspiracy thriller.An ancient burial box has disappeared from its long-hidden vault located directly beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. With the violent theft leaving thirteen Israeli soldiers and policemen dead, and the Palestinians up in arms over the desecration of sacred grounds, the tension between the two groups is dangerously high...

The bones were just the beginning . . .When American geneticist Charlotte Hennesey examined what she believed were the remains of Jesus, the Vatican buried her discovery. But the DNA Charlotte extracted from the sacred bones and injected into her own body has eliminated every trace of the cancer that was devouring her from within. And it has given her the power to perform medical miracles.Now wheels have been set in motion that will have cataclysmic consequences for the vol...

Michael Sheppard is a man on a quest for redemption. His final opportunity to salvage a faltering career rests within a mysterious underwater facility known as LEVIATHAN.Within resides a social media tycoon, his cohorts, and extensive corporate assets, disseminating propaganda poised to trigger a global paradigm shift reminiscent of a horror movie scenario.On a covert mission, Sheppard learns that this supposed utopian haven is far from what it appears. He stumbles upon a r...

Relentlessly suspenseful and disturbingly timely, Bounty summons a chilling vision of our Internet culture gone mad, where freedom, privacy, and the rule of law are demolished by a crisis of nightmare proportions—and the future of justice lies in the hands not of the bravest but the most brutal.When a notorious Wall Street vulture is executed in his high-rise office by a sniper’s bullet, it’s the kill shot heard around the world. Welcome to Bounty4Justice....

News reporter Ray James, on the road to chronicle the brave new world of Donald Trump. battles his own addictions and delusions as he tries to get his stories straight. Meanwhile, evidence mounts that someone is trying to kill him. Author Michael Byrne picks up the trail of the wandering Beat spirit that Jack Kerouac dropped off somewhere near Big Sur before drinking himself to death, and delivers a literary intervention in The Return Trip. His cast includes a shadowy network of Chinese ex...

A Life in Writing charts the evolution of Michael Byrne as an award-winning poet in the Australian Capital Territory. It explores, through vignettes his early life, the awakening of his desire to become a poet, his time as the new kid on the block and his arrival as a mature poet. Along the way, examples of his developing poetry are shared with the reader. The process in learning his craft, familiar to all poets, is set out with its associated highs and lows. At the same time, the...

A Man of Emails follows on from Michael Byrne's previous collection Southbound. Again, there is the balance between his painterly imagism and his quirky use of traditional form. With technical flair and flamboyancy, Byrne explores matters relating to his history, environment and psyche. Get to know A Man of Emails. 'There is manifest intelligence in Byrne's poetry and an emerging technical competence... Let us hope for more from him.' - Peter Pierce, The Canberra Times 'A Man of Emails is ...

London, December 1916. In the middle of the world's most deadly war, a political coup grips Westminster. The carnage of the Somme, the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, and the Easter Rising in Dublin have all left Britain's coalition government in disarray. The press is in open revolt and the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, is under sustained attack from political opponents and key members of his own party. Against this backdrop of mounting chaos, four politicians meet to consider the...

In a gripping thriller with a hint of Oliver Twist, a street kid and his dog are chasing an unlikely fortune — and dodging the thugs who would steal it.Twelve-year-old Bully has lost his mum and his old life. Living rough on the streets of London with his dog, Jack, he can’t imagine a future. But one day he finds, tucked inside his most cherished possession—the last birthday card his mother ever gave him—a lottery ticket he bought her. And it’s a winner. A...

Twenty-three years is a long time to spend in a fast food kitchen. But Michael Byrnes did it, and in this funny, honest and insightful memoir he recounts what it was like to be a franchisee in Canada's original and fastest growing hamburger chain during a crucial time in the comany's history. There's never been a book quite like it, and It's all here - the longing for something better, an opportunity to do something about it and the ups and downs and rewards and frustrations that followed....

Four stories, including two "short shorts", from the keyboard of Michael A. Byrnes, a writer who possesses a knack for capturing the absurdities of everyday life. A woman mishears a question during a job interview but can't stop trying to answer it. Nuclear armaggedon heralds The Shopping Channel's demise. A father and his young son travel to to an out-of-town hockey tournament, and a cluster fly infestation is overshadowed by a doomed marriage. These exquisitelty crafted stories, told wit...

This new, fully updated edition of The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure is the essential detective in your pocket - something to reach for when your writing needs that short, sharp shock of modern-day investigating. Every writer has paused at some key point in the development of their story to wonder what happens in real life. How would the murder in my story be investigated by the police? How far can I go without leaving holes in the plot? Can I use low count DNA to i...