Tom Hartley, 17, fights for survival, orphaned and alone on sixty thousand acres of Queensland cattle property. "Kind" Kit helps him escape being put into Care, repairs the house, then enslaves him. He is a willing pupil of a barmaid and practices with the girl sent to help him. He fights off a depraved land grabber and joins the army in 1942 resisting Japanese in Singapore. Aided by three soldiers, two pretty girls and an Indonesian boy, they wipe out an airfield and cause mayhem behind enemy lines. He must get vital war plans 3,000 miles to Australia in spite of a traitor. Action comes thick and fast; a mix of tragedy, impossible hurdles and a touch of Romance. The final turn of the screw awaits Tom on his return, as the bank manager goes off with his savings and traps him to await his fate.
MULTI-TALENTED EX-HEADTEACHER gives an account of war time in an English boarding school, losing his father from 1939-1946 while he was fighting Mr Hitler, not entirely solo; hostile neighbours on a Welsh hill farm, running an armoured regiment’s transport in Jordan, aged only nineteen, working on a New Zealand sheep farm, playing very coarse rugby, cleaning out an uncased well, playing in a dance band, teaching in the UK and being a Headmaster, losing his wife to cancer after a thirteen year struggle, writing and producing a full feature action movie, “Fight Back”, on DVD with Echelon Studios.com, life in New Zealand again and Australia, making documentary films, filming from Beijing to Helsinki and also Botswana and much more. “So many people have nagged me to write the story of my life, so I have given in.”
An action packed story, which will appeal to all who like a work of fiction where the storyline does not falter but pulls the reader along - left me breathless at times. I felt as if I was fighting for survival with Tom." ANDREW GROZIER, fiction thriller author Books by the same author: Slave Children - fast flowing action, & film script Slug Bait - mild horror Blowing My Own Trumpet - autobiography Vampire's Apprentice - 12+ Tom In Trouble - 12+ Young Escapers - 12+ & 7 episodes for TV
BEWARE: The Vampire’s Apprentice For everyone over the age of twelve, who dares ... But definitely not for those of a nervous disposition. Anyone younger might have nightmares ... You have been warned! Graveyards are best avoided. Please do NOT leave doors or windows open at night, and NEVER invite in strangers after dark. Enjoy, and try my other books.
A child-trafficking master criminal, Fadwell, makes a fatal mistake when he abducts two nephews of Baxter, a tough mercenary, one for himself, if unsold. Baxter misses rescuing Simon by seconds and the desperate boy’s escape bid fails. Aided by Wazim, the sadistic knife-man, the huge Carl and ruthless Georgina, Fadwell spirits Simon to an Arabian fort and Dan to a North African slave market. Surely they are beyond Baxter’s reach? Tracking down the 12 and 14 year-olds leads to the capture of our hero and fire-fights all over. Speed is vital as once delivered to their masters, these and other boys may be impossible to trace, when abroad. Poetic justice is demanded. Will Baxter succeed? Dedicated to my family, plus all disappeared children.
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