Three separate occurrences are apparently unconnected, the theft of Stinger rocket missiles from an Australian defence installation, the suspicions of a young woman in a storage depot in a northern Victorian town, and the disappearance of two young men from their Melbourne apartment.As the police and security services carry out separate investigations it is discovered these three events are intertwined, and relate to a planned terror attack that is the precursor to a coup d'état in...

Join the exploits of Royal Navy Morse code specialist Ray Scott as he captures the post-war matelot's life in graphic detail.There's much for a wide-eyed, naive teenager to discover in a Nissen hut packed with characters, conflicts and laughter.Ray's colourful memory brings the 1950s navy alive, evoking a simpler, happy time of joy and unity in service, but always with the ever-present fear of the Korean War, raging on the other side of the world, becoming global.Me...

A memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early ‘60s by celebrated NBA player and the first Black Coach of the Year, Ray Scott. Introduced by Earl "the Pearl" Monroe.“There’s a basic insecurity with Black guys my size,” Scott writes. “We can’t hide and everybody turns to stare when we walk down the street. … Whites believe that their culture is superior to African-American culture. ... We don’t accept many ...

In the quiet countryside of Victoria, Australia, ordinary insurance agent Stan Simolka pulls over at a remote highway lay-by for a moment's break. Suddenly, another car screeches in behind him. Four armed men leap out and unleash a hail of bullets.Stan bolts into the bush, heart pounding, somehow slipping through their deadly net. But why him?Days later, another ambush strikes. With no answers from police, Stan vanishes into the shadows, going undercover to hunt the truth. ...

Acomputer technician updates a computer for a client, then trades in the replaced computer to a computer shop for cash. The shop-owner passes it on to an employee, Donald Taylor, for his personal use. But when Taylor later connects it up, he discovers it contains data relating to a proposed terrorist bomb attack in Melbourne.The terrorist group realise their data is compromised and enter the shop to retrieve their old computer. They establish where it is, then murder the shop-owner...

A relaxing round of golf is interrupted by an assassin with mysterious motivations...Two golfers playing a round of golf are shot at by a sniper. Investigation indicates the shots came from a knot of trees alongside one of the fairways. Days later one of the players, Philip Meredith, is nearly run down in the street, a week later he is again shot at whilst on a sales trip in a country area of Victoria. Being an upright citizen with, he believes, no enemies he is ut...

A mysterious group prepares to carry out a ruthless terrorist attack...Geoff Miller, a Melbourne loss adjuster, is investigating a Workers Compensation claimant, suspected of rorting the system. He follows him to a remote Victorian country property where he observes the claimant, and others, on an obstacle course. Whilst videoing the claimant from a distance, Miller realises he's stumbled across a private army or terrorist group, but whilst filming is caught in the...

During a business trip to Taranga, a Pacific Island nation, Douglas Van Ekeren, a second generation Australian, is mistakenly invited to a clandestine meeting held by a group planning a coup d’état. The mistaken identity is due to a similarity in surname to another coup member, who is flying into Taranga from overseas and scheduled to stay at the same hotel but who has been delayed. Initially Douglas believes the meeting relates to his business trip, but slowly realises the true situation,...

Harry Wallace is asked by the Australian Intelligence Service to collect and deliver a small package during a business trip to Indonesia. This simple task becomes a nightmare when he unwittingly becomes a target of the security police and narrowly avoids arrest.He needs all his wits to deliver the package to the Australian Embassy and does so successfully.Harry returns to Australia, but the Jakarta episode comes back to haunt him when he travels to England. An Indonesian na...

Jean Ray brilliantly upends the haunted-house tradition in this widely acclaimed puzzlebox of a novelA reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic literature, Malpertuis is as inventive and gripping today as when it first appeared in French in the dark year of 1943.Malpertuis is a puzzle box of nested narratives wrested from a set of manuscripts stolen from a monastery. A bizarre collection of distrustful relati...

It’s like talking to a brick wall” and We’ll have to agree to disagree” are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument.It’s often claimed that some people-fundamentalists or fanatics-are indeed sealed off from rational criticism. And every month new pop psychology books appear, describing the dumb ways ordinary people make decisions, as revealed by psychological experiments. The conclusion is...

A man is discovered murdered in a hotel in London and police investigations have difficulty in establishing who committed the crime and are also unable to find a motive.The investigation is further complicated when it is discovered that the victim is a millionaire businessman and that he has died intestate, has never made a will and apparently has no close family. His lawyers are appointed as administrators of his estate and have the task of trying to trace beneficiaries, but soon ...