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Trouble in Monarto Monarto is in the grip of a crimewave. The streets are ruled by crime bosses, Quido Spinoza and his spiteful nephew, Vincent Zendell. Into the frame comes Alex Jaeger, a retired Special Air Service soldier cum freelance thief, who just arrived to holiday in town when is mistaken for a hitman and targeted by Spinoza. On the morning of his first day in town he is attacked and in the confusion forced to abandon his suitcase ful...

For Your Pleasure & Questionable Behaviour Book One, the treachery of poker machines, especially enchanted poker machines which will take far more than you ever expected unless you are wary. Our hapless protagonist lives a sad little life in a sad little town, but he has hopes for the future. The trickster machine knows exactly how to instill a little excitement into John's going-nowhere existence, and how to play him, too. Unfortunately for...

McKinney's Growth This book centers on a man who suddenly realises he had done very little with his life and given little back to society. After being mugged and receiving a head injury, over the months to follow his mind seems to be functioning much better than ever before. He embarks on the enormous plan of turning the world away from lust for the accumulation of financial wealth and finds a wealthy financier to back him, in the form of a mi...

TROUBLE IN MONARTO - REVENANCE: Unfinished Business In the first book, Trouble In Monarto, arch villain Cassandra was able to escape justice. This fact had long annoyed Alex Jaeger and friends, who had foiled Cassandra's evil design, but there now appears a second chance to settle the score when Spinoza's niece comes to Alex, now working as a private detective, with a threatening note which had been slipped under her hotel room door. Throu...

Star-Crossed A young man returns to the place of his childhood, much changed for the time of being away. A young woman with her heart set on independence and running a successful small business lives with her parents and a hodgepodge of characters at the Welsh family-run Powell's Guest House. With a large skeleton in his closet, Daniel moves into the guest house trying to find peace and a fresh start in Port Moreton. Amber, despite trying so h...

VARIATIONS ON A THEME Six short stories and one novella comprise a second volume of short stories following A Montage of A Mauve Reality. Ranging from the fearful, the melancholic, the surreal, and the bizarre, Unsound Minds and the novella Beyond the Rim suddenly broaden the scope of the experience. Meet a man who discovers his whole life is based on a deception, and a hard bitten corporate snoop sent to an outpost near the distant Kuiper ast...

About The Book Two stories converge through the actions of Ulek, a novice necromancer, who must become a sanctioned member of The Order of the Dark Arts, or else be considered, by the order, an outlaw in possession of sacred knowledge, and to be hunted down and killed by a demon which is a creation of the Order. In the paralleling story, a hitman suffers injury on his way to fulfilling his contract with a secret Government cadre and is nurse...

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The BookJames, a widower and fighting cancer, accidentally overdoses on his pain medication and dies. He is surprised to find that he is resurrected, soul in tact, and now in his prime. He finds he is not the only one, and that a super intelligence in the form of a rogue, quantum computer with a God complex, named Quanta, is responsible for recycling souls and pressing them into service in a warped quest to rule the cosmos. James and his new f...

PURSUIT: LIFE, The Big Game. A heads-up for the uninitiated. This is the book I needed to find when I was thirteen years-of-age. It identifies the important things in life, the pitfalls and dangers too, but also the good and enjoyable things encountered while negotiating one's own path -- things which only many of years of experience or an elderly mentor are able to impart. Interspersed throughout are the tongue-in-cheek rules, excerpts from...

A young man left a lawless and destructive environment behind, to find a whole new way of living. Discovering the country and the people of Australia - discovering a spiritual existence and even evidence supporting extra-terrestrial alien interference. About The Author T H O M A S J A M E S T A Y L O R , born Dec 1st, 1954. First published in the mid 1980's and writes on subject matter ranging through real life, the bizarre and unusual, c...

ABOUT THE BOOK Story One: FOR YOUR PLEASURE John is a foolish and troubled man in the grip of depression brought on by unemployment, and by surrounding declining economic fortunes. His wife, Margaret, and he have a toddler to raise, but the future from John's standpoint looks grim. While he is meant to be shopping for groceries, John convinces himself that a visit to the hotel bar couldn't hurt, and while there, a visit to the Gaming Room, d...

Short Story Collection Stories ranging through idyllic childhood memories, lives in turmoil, dystopian cities, law & order, drug induced nightmares, mania, pure fantasy, and a day in a life. A montage of characters, surroundings, situations, all reflecting a gamut of the human condition. The Author T H O M A S J A M E S T A Y L O R , Born 1st December, 1954. South Australia. Raised on a farm South of Adelaide. Spent the early years chasi...

Over The Wall & Beyond The Rim: A Double Novella Offering by Thomas James Taylor Book 1: Over The Wall A prison escapee (an anomalous human being) searches for the truth about himself and all creation, with life-changing results. Book 2: Beyond The Rim Earth is in the midst of existential revolution. A company detective for Omni Corp travels to an exploration hub and staging post out near the Kuiper Belt to investigate the mysterious p...

A reclusive, directionless man approaching middle age begins to assess his life and is unhappy with what he sees. While convalescing after a bump on the head from a bungled mugging, he determines that he must make his life count for something before it is too late. With a newfound sense of purpose, his mental faculties seem to sharpen acutely as he throws himself into a cause to which he becomes obsessed, that which he sees as the only means t...

James, a widower, and fighting cancer, accidentally overdoses on his pain medication and dies. He is surprised to find that his soul has been captured and placed within a new and perfect replication of himself at age thirty. He finds he is not the only one, and that a super intelligence in the form of a rogue, quantum computer names Quanta is responsible for recycling souls and pressing them into service for the nefarious purpose of ruling the...

POD: When a deep-space vessel is attacked without warning, Captain Rhys Morgan finds himself cast adrift millions of miles from home, with one other companion. INNER REALMS: Are the constructs of the mind more than they appear to be? DOUGIE'S CHOICE: The formative years, a time of self-discovery. THE VISITOR: An unexpected emissary from another world turns up in a suburban backyard. PARASITE: a deep-sea salvage captain discovers he is not alon...

James, a widower and fighting cancer, accidentally overdoses on his pain medication and dies. He is surprised to find that his soul has been captured and placed a new, perfect replication of himself at age thirty. He learns that he is not the only one, and that a super intelligence in the form of a rogue, super computer named Quanta is responsible for recycling souls and pressing them into service for the nefarious purpose of ruling the cosmos...

The world is strange, dangerous, complicated, full of strife, full of beauty and wondrous, and the opportunity and experience of life stretches beyond the everyday, beyond physical boundaries within which so many feel trapped as they struggle to survive. It takes time to get a handle on life. Unfortunately, far too much time can be spent simply discovering that which you are instinctively searching for but cannot find -- that which fulfills on...