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Stay-Alive Runs Away
1954 Kenya Jonas Forbes in the colonial police battles vs. Mau Mau.. Askari Stay-Alive Johnson witnesses a massacre but deserts rather than give evidence. Jonas has to bring him back but the tale isn’t over by a long way, especially when love and jealousy play their parts.
Dare Call It Treason
1956 UK. Stalinists plot to murder the new Soviet leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, visiting Britain. But their agent a themselves as much as their enemies. Jonas Forbes, hired to protect the visiting leaders, soon finds himself with a personal score to settle. He is both helped and hindered by the rival Soviet organisations, the GRU and the KGB, as well as the British police. A lightly-written thriller concentrating on historical accuracy.
Scrambling South
1956 Egypt immediately after the Suez Crisis. The conflict, however, hasn't been settled for Egypt, Israel and Britain and when a cypher key undermining Israeli espionage is reported hidden in Luxor, they all want to get their hands on it; but, for once, Britain is the first to react. Despite the doubts of certain Foreign Office mandarins Jonas Forbes is sent to recover the document. Not surprisingly he's soon spotted by Egyptian Intelligence. He eludes them long enough to get the document but the Mukhabarat aren't easily shaken off and return home via Cairo is clearly impossible. So Jonas decides to use the daunting exit through the desert bordering Sudan.He soon finds he can't rely on help...
Find Bormann!
1962 Uruguay Jonas Forbes, Mossad, Kameradenwerk and a mysterious German girl are all looking for fugitive war criminal Martin Bormann means trouble.. Add the police and the CIA and the trouble gets bigger.. A fast-paced thriller, with close attention to historical background.
HAVOK Goes to Moscow
1967 A British rock band, HAVOK, are planning to drive across Europe to introduce Russians to rock-and-roll. Somebody is threatening VICE, the lead guitarist - and MI6 want a little job done for them so they persuade Jonas Forbes to accompany the group as a bodyguard. He poses as Joseph Franklin, a substitute Manager, irritating most of the band but helped out by his 'PA' Vanessa Holmes. By the time they've passed through East Germany and Poland he is sure the KGB know they're on their way -and he 's right.In the USSR the KGB are prepared to pounce on dissenters led by OBROK. At the same time leaks from the UK Embassy reveal a British agent is with the band. Jonas gains one supporter in the ...
Endgame at Watergate
March 1973 and the Watergate Scandal is drifting over into public outcry. President Nixon struggles to avoid exposure of a decade's misdeeds. A tension-filled Washington may not be the best place to be. An English diplomat, Peter Northwood, is murdered - surely by mistake. Jonas Forbes, notorious for his 'direct approach' to solving crime, is sent by the UK Foreign Office to help the MPD and FBI in their competitive investigations. But he's certainly not a welcome addition to the investigation and soon realises he can trust nobody.Quickly he's sheltering a witness from the Mafia. But is information being leaked from the MPD or the FBI - or both? Certainly a hitman is in desperate pursuit - k...
Tudor Turnabout
Not just the well-known tale of Henry VIII & his 6 wives but also of the religious, political and constitutional changes in England 1526-47; full of heroism, betrayal, cruelty and intrigue. The story of how a King changed religion in England in ways he didn’t expect, changed wives in a frantic search for an heir and changed ministers to transform the state – and finally died on the edge of ruin. With extensive End Notes
Reza-Sharpe
London 1959 The Shah of Iran is visiting Britain but somebody aims to kill him. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect him, but from whom? Religious extremists or left-wing revolutionaries or an unknown enemy? His chief Iranian contact is Reza Karimidad: his chief M15 contact is Jack Sharpe. Who is helping and who is not? How does he distinguish truth from lies? A thriller firmly set in the period.
Well He would, wouldn’t he
1963 UK. The Profumo -Keeler sex-and-espionage scandal crocks the Establishment. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect leading figures but stumbles on to activities which could guarantee future nightmares involving zombies and sewers. A thriller, rich in period detail, which uses evidence from actual legal and police activity
Cuban Rummy
Too many cooks almost spoil the broth when hunted a sadistic serial-killer in Cuba in 1957. Jonas Forbes rubs shoulders with Batista’ Security Battalion as well as Marxists He’s helped and hindered by two senoritas and the occupants of two Embassies. Does anybody really want to catch the killer?
