"...these are stories crying out to be turned into a gritty television drama - think a true story version of The Night Manager." Sydney Morning Herald'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'Meet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'B...

"I deal with heavy, dangerous people. People who can bring a society undone."The Contractor returns.Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn't your typical tradie.When a client calls he downs tools and flies into the hot zone in his other guise - that of an elite private intelligence contractor.In four high-octane adventures, The Contractor takes on a counter-surveillance gig in Singapore, a jungle a...

Meet Alan McQueen - a tough, true-blue Aussie spy - in a fast-paced and action-packed thriller. He's on the trail of Abu Sabaya, the world's most dangerous terrorist - a man he thought he'd killed years ago. Alan McQueen, aka Mac, was once a star of the global intelligence community, renowned for being the Aussie spook who shot and killed Abu Sabaya, the world's most dangerous terrorist. But that was 2002. Now, during a routine assignment in Indonesia, McQueen discovers that Sabaya is not ...

Intelligence agent Alan 'Mac' McQueen returns in a action-packed and gripping new thriller. This time he's putting his life on the line to fight the forces who will stop at nothing to destroy the independence movement in East Timor. 'Abernethy conjures echoes of Fleming, Ludlum, Clancy and the Jack Reacher novels of Lee Child.' -The Weekend Australian. Intelligence agent Alan 'Mac' McQueen - the intrepid hero of Golden Serpent and Second Strike - is back! Double Back sees Mac fighting dang...

Australia's super-spy, Alan McQueen, has been lured out of retirement. Any dreams Mac has of a cosy office job are shattered when he's dispatched to Singapore to oversee a covert mission. And when things go disastrously wrong, he not only has to defend his reputation in Australia but also stay out of jail in Vietnam.From the leafy suburbs of Singapore to the mean streets of Saigon, from the political infighting of Canberra to the old killing fields of Northern Cambodia, Mac has to ...

In this action-packed and gripping sequel to Golden Serpent featuring the indefatigable Mac, Mark Abernethy confirms his status as a master thriller writer. In the early hours of October 13, 2002, Australian spy Alan McQueen is jolted awake and told to immediately head to Bali, where more than two hundred people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts. Descending into Denpasar, Mac finds tensions running high between MI6, ASIS and the CIA, not to mention the Indonesian national police ...

Spiritual Care in Psychological Suffering: How a Research Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice highlights spiritually integrative research and demonstrates the evolution of a national partnership of psychologists and chaplains collaborating for optimal results. Interdisciplinary teams are the gold standard in spiritual care provision, and this book orients the purpose and promise of such collaboration for research and practice. Recent work in the psychology of religion and spirituali...