Fiction

Némésis – Book 3 Part 1

12th January 2020 Blown Periphery 0

The city of Ar Raqqa – 15th February 2018 Major Paul Halward was a man who felt like he had the troubles of the world on his shoulders that morning. They had been in Al [more…]

Pandora’s Bug

9th January 2020 Tachybaptus 0

How long ago it seems! But it is barely four years since I was a senior researcher at Porton Down, sitting on a shiny chair at a varnished desk and tapping the delicate keyboard of [more…]

Joe Malone, Part Forty-Three

7th January 2020 Going Postal 0

I let the breath I’d been holding go and pulled the handle right down and towards me and door opened and the alarm bells rang like a fire engine. Ch 43 – Dark, Warm, Soft [more…]

10th – 14th February 2018 – British High Commission Islamabad and MoD Main Building, London Cécile and Phillips were kept under what could only be described as open arrest within the bounds of the High [more…]

The Rendezvous

29th December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]

A Going Postal Christmas Carol: Miriam’s Shack

23rd December 2019 Going Postal 0

If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with [more…]

Némésis – Book 2 Part 10

22nd December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

8/9th February 2018 – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Washington DC and Islamabad FCO Travel Advice for Pakistan: Local travel The Pakistan authorities currently advise that “all foreigners, including diplomats may not move out of their city of [more…]

Joe Malone, Part Forty-Two

17th December 2019 Going Postal 0

I only knew I was cold. And aching. And had a king size headache. I’d like a good rest in Lady Bixby’s emperor sized bed. Preferably resting my head on her chest. Even if she [more…]

Némésis – Book 2 Part 9

15th December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

6th February 2018 – RAF Northolt Cécile, was in the grip of one of her terrifying, lucid dreams. They had begun not long after her brother and father were killed in an air crash. In [more…]