A human story of love, pain, humour, and ambition all spiced with a little scandal and intrigue, We Promise Not to Tell is a dramatisation, plus a little author’s licence of 40 highly successful years in and around the hotel business. Much of it recorded in photographs, on video, and in personal diaries. Starting with nothing more than a little street sense, the book takes you on an emotional journey to battle with prejudice and corruption to create success. The book rarely refers to people or hotels by name, and when it does, the names are fictitious. It includes numerous …

Pelops is a Spetnatz-trained commando. This former East German soldier is hired by MI5 in a plot to "bury" a failed military project. He allows no one to stand in his way and tell the tale. Marty Rebel is an insurance litigation investigator. Driving ambition and Celtic obstinacy compel him to seek answers to unheeded questions regarding the death of the assassin’s latest victim. A martial arts expert, he cowers in no man’s shadow; but he is pitted against an adversary aware of his every move. Mixed fortunes misdirect bullets meant for him, and then he survives his first one-on-one …

This is another sequel to the Thadeus Burke adventure stories; continuing the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s Insurance Broker and his sister Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now 1928. An apparently motiveless murder at the opening ceremony of the new Lloyd’s Underwriting Room develops into a trek around the country seeking money lenders and drug dealers. We follow the unravelling of this mystery, interwoven with passionate affaires involving most of the prime suspects. Entwined within this tale there are bodies at country house parties, fancy dress balls and a treasure hunt, trips to …

Living in Milford Haven, U.K. since 1972, in 2004 I became involved in a court case requesting a judicial review on the dangers of LNG Ships entering the Cleddau Estuary. All court cases refused the Judicial Review. But during this time period, our very own MPs said it was a good idea. Why, when the dangers were obvious? Why were they so convinced? It was also evident that the authorities would have you believe that it is safe to allow [Tetra] Terrestrial enhanced trunk radio antennae, which generate a carrier wave with frequencies which match. Terrestrial enhanced trunk radio antennae …

The essence of Home Ground is a collection of 20 nature walks, ranging from about five to 15 miles in length, and situated in Northwest England. The criterion for selection is that each walk must be situated in whole or in part on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 ‘Landranger’ map no. 103 (Blackburn and Burnley). This was the map used by the author when he first began to explore the area almost 50 years ago, and these long personal associations, heightened by a long absence from the area, make this truly his Home Ground. Within this relatively small areais a rich variety …

A sinister conspiracy is about to change the world forever. One of the most powerful nations has secretly joined an unholy alliance with India to tip the balance of world power and create an axis that will never again be dictated to by the U.S. government. The world watches helplessly as nuclear weapons replace diplomacy in the increasingly volatile exchanges between the Indian and Pakistan governments. With a fanatic's finger on the nuclear button, world oil supplies are cut off and chaos reigns throughout the Gulf States and beyond. The American and UK governments stand together to face the world …

The third of the Thadeus Burke series continues the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s insurance broker and his sister Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now the spring of 1927 and our hero, assisted by his loyal staff, divide their time between London and Cambridge. A wealthy racehorse owner spinster is murdered at her house in Newmarket and we follow the unravelling of this mystery, interwoven with passionate affairs involving the prime suspect and our hero and his sister. Entwined within this tale, there are bodies at Brooklands’ motor races and at horseraces, on …