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Jack Mowgley, International Detective What Readers say: "I was totally absorbed as the tale unfolded, not so much by the plot, but waiting for the next assault on political correctness.""Mowgley is refreshingly sordid, and I was secretly pleased to find he had absolutely no redeeming characteristics." Jack Mowgley, a once highly respected SB officer in the MET and in later years in charge of the continental ferry port of Portsmouth, having fallen foul of his new fast-tracked boss, has set out for new beginnings and a new life in a foreign land before being sacked or even worse.Never a vigilante, but he has a unique sense of justice and metes out his own kind of punishment if he feels the law is inadequate. This invariably leads him into trouble.>Jack is back with - Kiss of De'AthWorth over 65 billions dollars a year, art is big business. Many thousands of talented artists across the globe try to break into this world, either legitimately or otherwise.Most art museums throughout the world keep quiet about what they have stored in back rooms or even hanging in their galleries from unknown or known forgers and fakers. It is believed that well over half of what we believe to be genuine masterpieces, are actually forgeries.Called in by his friend and former colleague's lover, Colonel Rene Degas is dealing with the death of an Englishman and Jack finds he is drawn in to this fascinating but murky, cynical and corrupt world of Art.Piers De'Ath is a celebrity art critic and influencer who has been found dead in unusual circumstances at his chateau in France. But it seems that De'Ath is more than a critic. He makes or breaks artists for his own satisfaction and also for his very considerable gain.From Normandy to Cornwall in the westcountry, London and Montmartre Paris, Jack follows the trail of forged art work and artists to seek out the truth. Finding broken dreams and promises, chicanery and deliberate confuscation.Death plays its part in this murky world.>The series Death Duty -Jack Mowgley, the resolutely unreconstructed, unredeemable and unapologetically out-of-date policeman learns that a passenger has gone missing on a ferry crossing to Cherbourg. There are no suspicious circumstances, but what appears to be a routine investigation soon develops into a sometimes bizarre and eventually life-threatening entanglement for the dinosaur detective...Dead Money -DI Mowgley is enjoying his daily bacon sarnie at Ginger's Caff when a bizarre event occurs on his patch at the International ferry port. The bodies pile up as the dinosaur detective pursues his quarry across Europe...Deadly Tide -Another close shave for the unconventional DI as he takes on an international drugs gang with links to the Russian Mafia: Death á la Carte -Bad boy detective Jack has jumped before being pushed and taken early retirement. With no prospects in England, he's moved across the Channel to start again as a P.I. in Normandy. Expecting no more than marital infidelities and financial irregularities, soon is involved in people trafficking, drug smuggling and murder.Dead and Buried -Former SB Inspector Jack Mowgley is scraping a living as a P.I. in Normandy when he is contacted by a former lover who needs his help to find her missing husband. Bulgaria, golden treasure and betrayal looms large for Jack...

As Friday 13th looms, so the East's unlucky streak comes to a climax. With them finally on their uppers, an advance offer from a publisher is a welcome relief until they discover they have already spent what is due to come from George's sales, and the bills keep mounting. French Cricket finds the author and his long-suffering wife facing imminent disaster as they struggle to survive at the Mill of the Flea. Something must be done to bring home the bacon, so our hero launches himself into another succession of hare-brained and inevitably doomed money-making schemes French Cricket is the fifth book in what has become a cult series, and follows our accident-prone hero through a long summer in Lower Normandy as he encounters an increasingly bizarre collection of characters, situations and events. Distractions from his money-making survival schemes to create ready-pickled eggs and breed boa-constrictors in the Big Pond include regular meetings of the infamous Jolly Boys Club. Members of this select debating society include the allegedly immortal Old Pierrot, who claims to have been on first name terms with William the Conqueror, JayPay (village superchef and entry for the moustache-growing championships of Lower Normandy), and the hypochondriacal Scabby Michel, who has had volumes of medical journals written about his ever-growing collection of exotic illnesses. Elsewhere, there's the invasion of an equally unusual collection of would-be British settlers, whose ranks feature a rollerblading barrister in search of the real world! and a retired 'hand artist' who claims to have been a stunt fingers double for Warren Beatty. Meanwhile, back at the Mill of the Flea, there are the constant confrontations with a tribe of homicidal goldfish and the escape committee in the chicken run, and failed attempts to find a dancing partner for a ballet-loving goose and cure a duck of its fear of water.

George East is by far one of the funniest story tellers and raconteurs on the planet today and the third book in the best-selling Mill of the Fleaseries, continuing the often farcical and always entertaining adventures of the author and his wife as they attempt to make a new life in rural France. Totally unlike any other book in the genre, FRENCH LETTERS takes the reader on another visit to a remote area of Normandy where time is of little value and reluctant tractors (and their drivers) are kick-started on frosty mornings with a tot of moonshine apple brandy. During another eventful year at the mill of the flea, the author and his wife once again encounter a host of improbable characters and situations, like the vegetarian couple who set up home next to a veal farm and an elderly post-mistress who grows highly illegal pot plants while enticing a colony of hornets to set up home in her attic...REVIEWS: George's tremendous love of life shows in all the couple's exploits, as does Donella's affection for George and her animals (shared fifty-fifty one surmises). There's a lot of wisdom in this book, or a lot of sound sense if you prefer it. I just wish he could write them a bit quicker. R.Roller.JCBJust read 'FRENCH LETTERS', what fun. George East's first book, 'Home and Dry in France' was my first encounter with this hilarious author. His second book, 'Rene and Me' confirmed his genius and I didn't think he could pull off a hat trick - but he has. 'French Letters' is so funny, from a bingo game in Nehou to the Tour de France, all the familiar characters are there, you must meet the Miserables, what a scream, I laughed all the way through. Encore s'il vous plait. J.Bean NY Whistler ABOUT THE AUTHOR: : GEORGE EAST has enjoyed a diverse career path which includes pickled onion manufacturer, private detective, night club bouncer, radio's rock'n'roll presenter and (under his wife's name) seamstress and girl's comic writer. The only professional bed-tester in history, in his eventful spell as a publican he won the title of Worst Landlord in Britain for two consecutive years. Then wrote a book about it - A Year Behind Bars. George and his long-suffering wife Donella now live and travel in France and in England as the author gathers material for new books and concentrates on his quests to discover the 'True Meaning of Life' while eating, drinking and going down the pub... For up-to-date info about George and a list of his other book titles, go to Geo's web site at george-east.net

For more than a decade, Inspector Jack Mowgley has been keeping a sort of rough-hewn order at Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port. Critics and those who fell foul of his notions of natural and sometimes rough justice say he regarded the port as his personal fiefdom. They are right. But times have changed, and the Police Force has become a Service. The day that a fast-track and very politically-correct female took over as his boss, The Ferry King knew his days were numbered. He was right.After an investigation, Mowgley is invited to jump before he is pushed and to take early retirement. Now he must start a new life in new surroundings. During a visit to Normandy a decade earlier, his wife had lost her heart to a ruined manor house and also to the man selling it. In the divorce she settled for the town house in Portsmouth and left Mowgley with the ruin in northern France.Now he is homeless and jobless, but has been offered a job by a former French policeman who runs a private detective agency in Northern France.Yann Cornec needs someone like Jack Mowgley to take on the agency's rapidly growing portfolio of cases involving British expatriates. He is looking for someone who speaks the same language as the expats, understands their strange ways, and knows how to handle sometimes difficult people and cases. He thinks he has found the right man in Jack Mowgley. In spite of himself, the former policeman finds himself feeling increasingly at home in a land where things are done so differently. But after a gruesome discovery at his ruined property, he also finds himself involved in a bloody territorial struggle involving drug and people smuggling, murders most foul and general mayhem...

High summer in the Balkans and travel writer George East visits a remote Bulgarian mountain village to investigate an apparently potty project set up by an English artist and her husband. The scheme is to save the dying village of Krasiva by forming a colony of creative foreigners. If all goes to plan, potters, painters and writers will buy a home in the village and bring new life to a community where the average age is over 70 and there are more donkeys than people. In his time in Bulgaria, the famously sceptical observer finds himself falling under the spell of a fascinating land where the old ways are followed and a cottage can be bought with a credit card... Extract: I thought Ivalin was reckless when speeding through the village, but off-road he drives faster and, if it were possible, even more recklessly. The potholed tarmac has been replaced by a sun-baked dirt track, riven with deep tractor ruts. It also winds sharply, and slopes alarming steeply downhill into the valley. Before we left, Ivalin told me that his raspberry fields are in secret locations and I jokingly asked if I would need to wear a blindfold. Now I wish I had.

H&D in France follows George's adventures as he makes every mistake in the book about how and how not to buy a second home across the Channel.Subtitled A Year in Purgatory,the book is much more than a list of all the pitfalls awaiting the innocent abroad:it is an hilarious account of how a couple set out with a dream,which turns into a nightmare.