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When Henry loses his lucrative job at Global Haulage Company, it sets in motion a series of catastrophic events within a failed transportation business, as well as a false prophet who breaks up his home.Events spiral dangerously around two stunning and inexplicable lookalikes and their common lover, leading to another broken home and a crazy quest for sex that claims the life of their lover. Helen, Henry’s wife and one of the lookalikes, must return to her marriage. Can she go the distance, even with the help of the Godly Stranger?Down-to-earth and wise cracking, the story exposes the vulnerability of employees who get caught up in corporate reorganisations, and those who fail to plan against sudden career upheaval. The novel offers serious lessons in poor retirement planning and rashly thought out entrepreneurial ventures. It also indicts a society taken hostage by a plethora of false prophets and pastors feeding on the gullibility of hapless people.Godly Stranger does provide a consolation: Despite the harsh realities of life, there is solace within the secret hands of God at work in the lives of those who sincerely trust Him. The story not only elicits sympathy for Helen and Henry as they taste the bitter pills of life, but also gives hope to all who face hard times.Author Bio:A civil engineer with several fellowships, Nigerian Chris Ekpekurede is a public speaker and the author of six nonfictional books. Godly Stranger is his first foray into fictional writing.

As in the first volume of Strange Bedfellows, etymologically related words, most surprisingly so (strange bedfellows), are used to construct amusing and/or amazing pairs, phrases, whole sentences, essays and nonsense stories.  Most are accompanied by silly comments, tall tales with recurring characters, poems, fake news and ads.  A larger dose of satire than in vol.1 is also included, with a number of Trump send-ups.  Again there is a large appendix citing many other etymological surprises. 

Spring has arrived in New York City. The year is 1939 and the world is about to change.A 22-year-old novice songwriter in the Bronx named Reuben Rabinowitz spends his days playing the grand piano on the fifth floor of Macy’s. Also working at the department store is a young lady of 19 named Rose Deutsch.Reuben and Rose connect, flirt and date and eventually marry – all in the space of seven months – because of the imminent war.By Dec. 8, 1941, Pearl Harbor has been bombed and Reuben enlists in the Army.We go to war and we see its horrors, not only on the men fighting, but of the family left behind.We witness the death of loved ones. We witness the loss felt by those remaining at home, while their sons and husbands are fighting abroad.This stirring novel elaborates on the love between Rose and Reuben; their families and their friends; and the horrors of war that forever mark its survivors.The story resonates for everyone, for it shows how people in love cope with separation and loss. And it resonates from the realization that love conquers all, or sometimes doesn’t.   (About the Author)Gary D. Chattman has been a teacher and administrator all his life, primarily in public high schools in the Bronx. He has also been a Hebrew School Principal, an academic leader, and has created a special program for teaching Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah programs for young Jewish men and women outside of Hebrew School. He is a concert pianist, a lyricist, and a composer. A grandfather of four, the love of his life is his wife Patti. This is his 11th published book.

Colonial Son describes the failure of the historical system of British colonial rule, which has adversely affected the lives of so many souls around the world.The book is an indictment of a defunct global political system and philosophy of life that has shamefully enriched and pampered one section of mankind on the backs of unfortunates, and in the process causing enslavement.Colonialism’s curse on man’s greed and its uncaring attitude for one’s fellow man is not isolated, nor does it reflect brief behavior, as it has existed worldwide for centuries.This dismal political and historic failure has not been given the attention it deserves. The inept and wicked colonial administration policy of the British Empire has been waged against its black colonial subjects over centuries, inflicting vile rule and neglect.While it lasted, that policy never arrived at that part of the “long haul” of wicked domination, where opportunity was freely given for the rightful human development of a major portion of the human species. A sin, for which to date, there has been no solemn apology offered, no fitting reparation made.Author Bio:Clayton Didier is retired and lives in Barbados. He previously published two books of poetry. 

Basic Practising Skills in English: With Worksheets and Exercises 3 teaches basic practising skills in English for young children learning it as a second language. Practise is enhanced through exercises and worksheets containing new words, reading passages, and comprehension. The skills targeted include reading, writing, listening, and speaking. To improve these basic skills, there are exercises or worksheets with new words, reading passages, comprehension, listening and talking, games or quizzes, and unfamiliar phrases. Creative writing activities are featured in each and every one of the fifteen chapters.The book’s reading passages present ordinary things such as trees, food, animals, crops, vegetables, and religions. The passages are presented by all-knowing characters describing the items as they existed in ancient or modern times. Worksheets and exercises are based on the reading passages.This is the third volume of the series.About the Author: Since 1991, Kundisai Mudita worked as a primary school teacher at various schools in Zimbabwe, Africa. She joined Great Zimbabwe University in 2009 as an assistant lecturer. Presently she is the chairperson of the university’s department of Special Needs Education. Her research interests include disability issues, writing for young children, and helping vulnerable groups.

This second book of the Soulsphere series continues the adventures of Gale McCarthy. She had been until recently one of the only people in the galaxy to possess a Sciath Inchinn, or a “soulsphere.” Now, her discovery of a planet full of billions of soulspheres has catapulted her into a whole new life. The Paxians want to crown her as a First, the thirteenth member of the royal class, and give her almost unlimited power. They shower her with riches, a luxurious mansion, fine clothes, cars, servants, and anything else she could ever ask for.But there are rules.And she is already breaking them.Despite their general acceptance into their society of a sphereless deposed Prince from Choraia named Oberon, the other Firsts fear his unique mind powers. While allowing Gale and Oberon to marry, the royals will not permit them to have children, enforcing mandatory infertility. One of their other policies, that of executing Pax’s own children who don’t produce spheres at puberty, enrages Gale even more.Employing collaboration, secrecy, and genetics, she develops a plan to save the Paxian children, Oberon, and her own future offspring from the tyranny of her new “friends.” Whether she can make it happen is another story ...About the Author: L. Carmichael is a math and sciences teacher at a private academy in her hometown. She volunteers for two charities, as well as being an ordained minister. When not writing, she tutors high school students in many subjects, and homeschools her two daughters.

A World in Crisis is set in the year 2060, when the entire world has been plunged into chaos due to one hundred and fifty years of environmental bastardisation.The testing of atomic bombs brought unsustainable pressures on the earth''s mantle. The disasters of global warming were caused by unparalleled pollution and uncontrolled population growth.One man rediscovers a long-lost cave deep in the Blue Mountains of Australia and endeavours to isolate himself from the terrors of rising oceans and the chaos of humanity in its death throes. He sets out to record for posterity the events that brought the world to its sorry state.He describes the inundation by the seas over one fifth the world''s land mass, as well as how earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes kill millions.Violence in the streets overwhelms security forces, leaving gangs to rape and kill at will. Survivors wait and pray for the world to return to normality.A World in Crisis follows up the author''s previous book Lethal Legacy.Author Bio:Tom Edwards of New South Wales has written sixteen books, five of which have won awards. His motivation for writing this book is summed up in the statement inside the front of the book: "The ultimate test of man''s stupidity is when, in his grubbing for riches, he destroys the environment that sustains him."

Life on the Streets tells the stories of the homeless or those working on the streets. Learn why people end up homeless or have turned to prostitution.While writing this book, I said to a friend that for me to really write a good book about being homeless, I needed to be homeless, not thinking for a minute that this would happen to me.However, my life took a bad turn and I was descending in a downward spiral. This is the true story of homeless people from both New Zealand and Australia. It also incorporates my life, from living in a house, to being evicted, to living on a bus, and then moving to Australia with my kids, and having nothing but $280 to my name.I lived in an elaborate six-bedroom home in Australia with a friend who eventually ripped me off, kicking me and my kids out. I had nowhere to go and didn’t know what to do. Organisations offered assistance with temporary accommodation in a motel and a backpackers’ residence, where I lived with my kids for eight months.My memoir shows that life can change in an instant and without warning. It presents a rollercoaster of life’s ups and downs that I endured to get to where I am now, pursuing a meaningful life on the Gold Coast.(About the Author)Kim O’Brien-Williams grew up in Brighton, a small beach town just outside Dunedin, New Zealand. She is currently a chef working on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. This is her second book and was inspired by meeting a homeless man who told her his life story.

The String People is a collection of twenty-eight unforgettable short stories drawn from Dr. Anthony Paul Sterling’s imagination, mixed with other tales of the author’s life experiences.The title of the book and the first story “The String People” came from “when I was very young. My brother and I had only matches to make people that we played with. We were poor and couldn’t afford real toys. These string people became soldiers, cowboys, etc.”From the short story “My Bald Head:”“Early in life, at age 5 or 6, I told my Grandma Cheecha (Francis), who spoke only Sicilian, that I wanted to be unna Doctura, so I could listen to her heart and give her injections of insulin. She would laugh and hug me. I never forgot this woman who got off a boat from Sicily with her husband Paul and 22 children … The next major influence came when I arrived on the children’s cancer unit. What affected me was the number of bald heads seen in almost every bed; this meant that all of them had cancer and were on chemotherapy. I never got over this; I prayed, cried, and eventually shaved my head.”About the Author: Anthony Paul Sterling, M.D., Ph.D., grew up in Manhattan, New York. He was the first in his family of three siblings to finish college and then went on to medical school, all on scholarship. He graduated from Downstate Medical School, New York, in 1967; did his residency in Kings County Hospital, New York, in 1968; and was drafted into the USMC in 1968. Now retired, the author was a private practitioner in Waterbury, Connecticut. His first book was Tears and Laughter of a Physician.

Temptations or tempting situations come to us on a daily basis. We therefore need to prepare ourselves to face them when they come.While we wish the best for ourselves, we cannot avoid the trials of life.This book is about temptations and how to deal with them. Yielding to temptations may bring grave consequences, but overcoming them also brings its benefits. Our conduct in the face of challenges tells much about our inner strength. Also, recovering from defeat after falling is a major test of strength.About the Author: Femi Olisa is a teacher of the word by calling. A Nigerian of Yoruba extraction, he holds a bachelor’s degree in botany from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. A member of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, a full-gospel end-time Christian army church, his work in the church as a minister and Sunday school teacher inspired the writing of this book. He is happily married to Catherine Olisa, and the union is blessed with children.

Patchwork and Its Pitfalls: The Cost of Half-Way Solutions describes decision makers’ patchwork actions that occur due to hesitation and lack of firmness and determination.Under the pretext of “humanitarianism,” “saving lives,” or taking an otherwise wimpy action, they end up taking a cowardly action at the cost of human lives and much material damage.The costliest action often turns out to be the cheapest, but is seldom done, while the easiest and apparently cheapest action ends up being the most expensive in the aggregate.This book is important, because indecisive decision makers can emerge in all nations at all times.The author’s inspiration for writing this book: “When I watch politicians who repeatedly take cowardly decisions out of ‘human considerations’ and concern for lives and material preservations, but in fact end up wasting both.”(About the Author)Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 60 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam.

Dangers are looming for Western civilizations due to the creeping invasion of Muslims, who are gradually diluting the West with their own beliefs as they end up taking over and dominating them. This danger is described very eloquently and frighteningly by French writer Michel Houellebecq in his best-selling novel Submission.This process also triggers a fundamental change in Western societies, so the old cultures of Europe, which are known, sought, and admired by outsiders, will practically disappear, replaced by an amalgam of ancient European tradition with a newly imposed Muslim faith, mores, and Sharia laws.Muslim tourists and immigrants to the West are gradually but firmly imposing their culture on a scared West, which has lost its will to fight and its capacity to defend itself because of political correctness and a reluctance to face the truth. This volume is the fourth in the Quartet on the Waning of Western Civilizations which also comprises: Retreating from the Mirage of Multi-Culturalism, Misnomers and Cultural Choices, and Suicidal Democracy published in 2018-19.(About the Author)Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam.

Etymologically-related words, most surprisingly so (strange bedfellows), are used to construct amusing and/or amazing pairs, phrases and whole sentences, mostly accompanied by silly or satirical comments, tall tales with recurring characters, poems, fake news and fake ads for Dr. Duck’s Dealy Deli.  An appendix gives many other pairs of surprisingly related synonyms, antonyms, etc., balanced by the converse - pairs one might expect to be related but are not.Author Bio:Anil is a retired biologist, born in Kentucky, now a dual citizen of Australia living in Perth. He is the author of an award-winning children’s (and all ages!) book, Silly Animal Rhymes and Stories A to Z, and a big book of puns and other humorous word play, How to Double the Meaning of Life.  A sequel to Strange Bedfellows is also near completion.

From Venice, the city where you can dream and succumb to the magic of love - for no one loves like Venetians do - to Malaga and its passionate flamenco music.To the enchanting beauty of Cortina, where skiers go to ski, relax and find love, and the pastoral landscape of Emilia Romagna where the mastery of culinary art flourishes.In this modern short story, a doctor sacrifices his career for the love of his family. A stunningly beautiful young girl from Malaga finds her youth disrupted by a malicious priest and a cheating bull fighter. But destiny does her justice.Urbano Salvati shows that integrity still matters, that the love of family is the cornerstone of our life, that good business is run by good people, and that true friendship does exist. But most of all, destiny still plays a role for those who love.In the final analysis, we are good people and love is, and will always be, the only lantern that guides our life.

SHE KNEW Thoughts flow through my head andI often think about the gifts thatI AM given of words as a P O E TAs much as I wanted to keep them closeI trusted the ability and abilitiesTo reach further than I ever haveI believed in knowing that the words givenWere for me to share with the worldI AM a MessengerI AM a StoryI AML I F E

Path-Breaking Work in Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery by Dr. Doina Dumitrescu-Ionescu was reviewed by David Soutar for The Royal College of Surgeons of England:“This is a refreshingly original and unusual text. It is a testament to the life work of the author and her struggle to develop clinical microsurgery in Rumania. It takes the reader on a journey starting with learning the basic techniques of microsurgery, laboratory and experimental research, teaching and training. It then progresses to the building of an infrastructure for development and clinical practice, the maintenance of meticulous records and the evaluation of results. As such, the book is a very personal account written in an informal style so that the reader can follow the author’s own development and experience.“The format is unusual beginning with the author’s philosophy for developing reconstructive microsurgery. It then covers personal techniques developed for peripheral techniques developed for peripheral nerve repairs and microvascular anastomosis. It is clear from early on in this book that the author’s main interest lies in the management of peripheral nerves, particularly in the limbs. There is a section on reconstructive microsurgery of the brachial plexus following trauma and a section on limb replantation.”Says the author, “The reconstructive microsurgery experience helped me to modernize reparative plastic surgery in Romania in reconstructive plastic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery by radically changing the surgical approach.” This allowed also for new procedures in Dupuytren’s Disease, Volkmann, and post-burn contractures approach, “revolutionizing everything that was repair surgery of any extremity, cephalic, superior, inferior, but also the extension of reconstructions in the large defects of suprascheletal soft parts.” About the Author: Doina Dumitrescu-Ionescu is Professor Emerita Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery at “Carol Davila” University of Medicine, Bucharest, Rumania.

Live Before You Leave: An Introduction to Happiness was written for those seeking happiness, peace, and bliss in their lives.Through small stories and through the author’s life experiences, this book represents a self-help guide on how to live a healthy and joyful life.The guide is based on scientific facts as well as the knowledge of life and nature. Although energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can be transformed from one form into another. Similarly, a negative life can be transformed into a positive one.Says author Taruna Morandmal Tanwani: “In writing this book, I am trying to spread knowledge in the world that could bring peace and happiness in someone’s life. But this can happen only because I have experienced peace, happiness, and joy in my life. I experience peace and happiness through yoga and meditation. This book helps the readers to realize that happiness is not outside but within ourselves, and we just need to take a step to look within! A wealth of happiness is within us!”

The idea for 52 Life-Changing Strategies to Successful Living was inspired by my personal experiences: My marriage of twenty-nine years, respective roles as a father and senior pastor, seminar/workshop teacher, conference speaker – and as a coach – empowering young people through the sport of baseball.All my familiarities of life, motivational teachings, and team-building notes were placed in this handy text. 52 Life-Changing Strategies to Successful Living is an easy-to-read, simply written book, yet is profound in its implications. It can be used as a personal weekly devotional, a guide for cell groups, or as a manual for team building and empowerment for employees.The book is a guide to living life’s journey successfully. From facing struggles, issues, and problems in life, to overcoming unhealthy relationships and staying focused on our purpose, we are all equipped with the knowledge to solve life’s problems and are uniquely created by God to fulfill our God-Given assignment.This journey encompasses taking life’s experiences and turning them into stepping-stones of success.Author Bio : Rev. Kenneth H.B. Adderley has served as senior pastor of Temple of the Word Ministries, Nassau, Bahamas, for the past twenty years. He is a marriage officer and justice of the peace in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, as well as a marriage/relationship counselor and seminar/workshop lecturer. Pastor Adderley has travelled extensively throughout the USA, Caribbean, South America and Africa, establishing K.A.M (Kenneth Adderley Ministries) within these locations, including a site in West Palm Beach, Florida, providing motivational teachings and empowerment development. A former professional baseball player, the author has been a baseball coach for over ten years. He and his wife Bernadette have two children, Kennisha and Kyle. This is his seventh book.

I often think of myself as a proud person. Sometimes your pride gets in the way, but most of the time it is the way! Well, I am proud to say that I am a boozer. Yes, that''s right, I said boozer. Not a drunk or an alcoholic, but a boozer. Do you enjoy a beverage of choice? I know I do, that''s for sure.This is a series of stories of how I came up with the names of drinks that are based on friends. Some came about when I was ... well, boozing. Some of them came to life when I was cooking. We like to have a cocktail while cooking. Cooking and booze have been going together for a long time, sometimes in the meal and sometimes in the cook. Ha! Either way, it''s always better. The bartending profession has been in my life for too many years. It''s been very good to me and has let me experience many things in life, so I decided to put together this drink book.Oh, by the way, I am Dewey Henry. Truly my pleasure to meet you. I guess you actually get to meet me. I hope the pleasure is the same for you as it is for me. I really don''t know what we just said, but you are going to find out how I talk as you read. Many have said that the way I talk is known as Deweyism.I finished this book on July 2, 2019, which would have been my mom''s eightieth birthday, so it''s dedicated to her. You know, without our parents we wouldn''t be able to accomplish many things. First off, we wouldn''t even be here. Ha! Oddly enough, my father was the storyteller of the family, not my mom, even though he was sort of quiet. I became a storyteller. Mom just told things as they happened. That''s what I do. Honestly, that''s how I became who I am, like mom was when she was raising us. It''s weird ''cause she was actually telling the truth about things as she saw them happen.Oh, her birthday. She used to say that her birthday was halfway to the end of the year. Most people would argue, "No it''s not; its July 1st." Well, if you count the days, you''ll see she was right, depending on leap year. OMG! Actually, she is telling a story. I get this from her, so thanks, Mom. Miss you.

Book Synopsis: Pennies from Heaven is the fourth book in Pat McDonald’s Penny series.Benjamin Pollock (aka Ben Matthews) is a successful businessman trading over the internet with his diet product The Daisy Effect.“Living the dream” in the United Arab Emirates with his wife Rebecah, Ben receives the startling news that he is about to become a father again. Their twins Luke and Lucy are quite a handful, so Ben thought his family was already complete. The prospect of welcoming another child is quite daunting, leaving Ben to reflect on his life.An invitation to stay at one of Dubai’s exclusive hotels is received thanks to Don Luis Fernandez Rodrigues, a Colombian cartel drug baron turned legitimate film backer for the film, “Zombie Apocalypse: The Final Resolution,” which Ben’s family have parts in. They find themselves guests for the weekend and are determined to take full advantage of the unexpected getaway.It is here that Ben begins to discover the seedier side of the UAE, the amazingly beautiful place that has allowed his imagination to run riot.The trouble with Ben’s past is it has a habit of catching up with him.Author Bio:British crime author Pat McDonald lives in a rural part of the Midlands, United Kingdom. She previously worked as a researcher, project manager, and programme manager in the NHS and in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. She is now a full-time novelist. This is her tenth book. 

The Repairer of the Breach is my contribution to raise up the foundations of God for my generation and those to come. It is my effort to partner with God’s people to repair any breach between them and the Heavenly Father, and to restore paths for men and women of various backgrounds, cultures, and races to walk or dwell in.I want to contribute to a better quality of life for all people. I want to inspire people to believe in God to their full potential, which in turn I believe will lead them to live life to its fullest potential.God is only good always. The devil is only evil always.Few people truly believe the above statement. Many people in this walk of life do not believe in God or the devil. Then there are those who believe that there is a God and there is a devil, but they lack the knowledge and truth regarding the nature of the true God and the nature of the devil, the adversary. Hence, God is often blamed for the evil that occurs in this world. God is blamed for death, destruction, sorrow, and a whole host of other things. I will show you from the integrity of God’s word (the Bible) that God is only good and is not the cause or source of evil in the world or in our personal lives.(About the Author)Don Smith is a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ and a critical thinker who is a dynamic teacher/presenter of God’s Word. He is also a certified John C. Maxwell Coach, Teacher, Trainer, and Speaker (2015). He holds a B.S. in administration of justice and an M.A. in theology.

WHY? is about a lonely old man named Mr. Flex, who is always yelling “Why?” and is constantly questioning his circumstances. The story takes place during the summer in a small town, where the townspeople are ambivalent to Mr. Flex’s distress.It takes a stranger coming to the neighborhood and befriending Mr. Flex to find out why he is yelling the word.Oswald has come to town to visit his brother, Jarvis. Oswald learns that Mr. Flex is yelling “Why?” because his wife took his children and left town without telling him.Author Bio: L. Steve Carmicle grew up in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, the largest all-black municipality originally settled by former slaves. This is his second book.

Laurel is a young woman who is sad and depressed about her mom’s health and her father’s affair.At her high school graduation party, she flirts with Brad, who flirts back and then takes her home. Her father gets angry with her and asks if Laurel has prayed that day. Laurel is invited to Brad’s house where he gives her a glass of wine and some particular smelling brown cigarettes. When she starts feeling funny, he takes her to his bedroom to check something on the computer. He throws her on the bed and rapes her.When Laurel gets home, the traumatized girl learns that her mom died at the hospital that same day, and her father reveals that he plans to marry his mistress three days after his wife’s funeral. Laurel is shocked and she cannot stand the young woman her father makes her new step-mother.Laurel’s life takes some strange turns in the powerful novel The Christian Life I Knew Not, but in the end she finds self-reliance as she tries to follow her faith in the Lord.About the Author: Cheryl R. Johnson of Richmond, Virginia, is a personal care attendant who works with seniors. She and her husband John have two sons, Marzell and Jacob. This is her first book. She is currently working on her next book, Break the Chain of Prejudice. 

This richly textured work examines Venetians'' "Venice-ness" and the city''s humanity. A cultural history wide in scope and original in conception, it explores how people have been shaped by Venice and, in turn, have shaped the city.  Meet culture heroes whose defects have helped define Venice''s myth, and fugitives from the city''s splendor, such as El Greco. Venice''s prisoners numbered cloistered women, the mad, and the Jews of the Ghetto. People living in close, durable symbiosis with the city include Titian, and those fugitives from self who sought wholeness in Venice include Stravinsky.

Jack Baker is a self-employed painter and decorator in his late twenties who also does occasional small plumbing jobs. Abandoned by his mother at birth, Jack was brought up by foster parents.When working in a large country house, he comes across a sports trophy engraved with a name that re-ignites a deep-held desire to try to find his birth family, something he failed to achieve in an earlier attempt.Using a different approach this time, he makes contact with a half-brother. Unknown to Jack, his relative has a shady past involving convictions for minor crimes, which inadvertently draw in Jack. The connection with his half sibling leads to a complicated series of events involving a corrupt Member of Parliament and his equally corrupt nephew.The police use Jack to further their investigations into the MP and his nephew. It turns out that both men’s crimes are far more serious than originally thought. Russian spies are only part of his troubles as Jack becomes involved in a complicated series of events that threaten his life.About the Author: Born in London, Alan Clarke has lived throughout the UK. The retired technical writer currently resides in West Cumbria in the Lake District of England. He was inspired to write this story by a friend who has been searching for his birth relatives for many years. This is his eighth novel.