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In Vietnam, Tom Renshaw and his small patrol witness a horrific war crime, the execution of women and children carried out by CIA operatives. Later, these men try to find and eliminate Tom and his men along with a French reporter, Louise Rochelle. whose life Tom had saved. The CIA agents are determined to find and kill their targets to prevent the world finding out about their atrocity and pursue them relentlessly in the outback of Queensland....

Jacquie Riordan plans to be home for Christmas. She sets off aboard a mercy ship. In a West African dictatorship, she and her companion are kidnapped. A civil war is raging and they must avoid soldiers of both sides whose intentions are dangerous, maybe deadly. Can they avoid danger, or must they tackle it head on? Lots of action and adventure plus a look at democracy in the third world.

In this roller coaster of global business change, it has become practically impossible to manage the way we once did. Now is the time to embrace new ways of leading that encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion and help people thrive in an endlessly changing environment. With the goal of helping current and future leaders discover new routes to future success, seasoned executives and business coaches, Kanthi Ford and Patrick Ricketts, share...

In this roller coaster of global business change, it has become practically impossible to manage the way we once did. Now is the time to embrace new ways of leading that encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion and help people thrive in an endlessly changing environment. With the goal of helping current and future leaders discover new routes to future success, seasoned executives and business coaches, Kanthi Ford and Patrick Ricketts, share...

This is a compendium of short stories, you can read each one in ten or fifteen minutes. There is an engaging mix of humour, love and a little homespun philosophy.

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A gripping tale of a young couple caught up in the sex-trafficking trade. Michael (Young Jack) and Elsbeth Riordan are co-opted by British and Australian security agencies to track down the leaders of this awful business. They are joined by brother and sister Luca and Sonja in an exciting tale of adventure and danger.

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The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts to...

My story of Kilshanny in Ireland, the homeland of my father. My experiences whilst I was visiting this beautiful country

Jack Riordan leaves Ireland in 1825. It is either that or starve! He joins the British Army, seeing service in Australia, India and New Zealand. After his discharge, he becomes a mounted policeman. His large family becomes part of this new country.

This collection of short stories brings to the reader a variety of events that shape or enrich our lives. Each is different, each has a different outcome, each aims to stimulate. It's good stuff for that bed-time read.

Life, love and war are essential elements of the human condition, especially for those who lived most of their lives in the twentyth century. This collection of stories looks at the lives people through the lens of history, seeing the way life can affect us all given the circumstances.

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A gold and emerald statue is siezed by Spanish conquistadors from its original owners in what is now Colombia. The statue is taken to Spain, where it visits nothing but misfortune on the de Martinez family for more than four hundred years. Appropriated during the Spanish civil war by a brutal military police colonel, it is taken to occupied Paris, where it is sold to none other than Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The statue goes missing. Ye...

Two pugs have built a robot labrador to steal the world's tastiest bone. The story is set in the United Kakedom, an island bigger than Iceland and smaller than Greenland. It is a circular island containing four countries of exactly the same size - like four quarters of a cake. These countries are Eggland, Sconeland, Pieland and Waffles. The people who live there are called crumbs. The crumbs are ruled by a Queen and she is helped by her Prime ...