Terry Morgan
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The first in the Asher & Asher series of international criminal investigations."A compelling plot and poignant rants about the inadequacy of democratic institutions and ...the global establishment."Mark Dobson, a partner in London-based international commercial crime investigstors, Asher & Asher is given an unusually vague remit from a new client, an American biotechnology company, to investigate the theft of valuable research material. Motivated...
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"You're an engineer, Carlos," Daniel said. "You understand that technology knows no bounds. With modern weapons if a human target standing on a street corner can be seen from a satellite, then someone six thousand miles away can press a red button and, hey presto, the problem is solved. Gone in a flash with pinpoint accuracy."Biological weapons are different but there has never been a shortage of agents to choose from. Drug resistant bacteria or genetically...
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The old spy in "An Old Spy Story" is octagenerian, Oliver ("Ollie") Thomas. During a long career spent trying to earn an honest living with his own export business, Ollie was also, reluctantly, carrying out parallel assignments in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere only loosely connected to British Intelligence. But, by using threats and blackmail, his controller, Major Alex Donaldson, was forcing Ollie to help run his own secret money making schemes...
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."Whistleblower", by Terry Morgan, is an international thriller that stretches from England to Thailand with many stops in between. The plot centers around the timely topic of international aid money and the criminals who feed on it.The hero, the story's whistleblower, is British ex-politician Jim Smith, and the story follows him around the globe as he seeks to put a stop to the corruption.Morgan, a world traveller who now resides in Thailand, knows...
5) Park Road
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A contemporary novel. Five fatherless, mixed-race teenage boys from a poor inner-city area were going their separate ways when one of them was abducted and forced into joining ISIL. In trying to bring him home and expose the sinister criminality within their community, each of them meets an older man from whom they learn trust, respect, hope and inspiration for the future."Making the story-teller a bright, teenage boy is a masterful touch"
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At age fourteen Femi Akindele, an orphaned street-boy from the Makoko slum in Lagos decided to call himself Pastor Gabriel Joshua.Unqualified and self-taught and now in his mid-forties Gabriel has become a highly acclaimed international speaker on African affairs, economics, terrorism, corruption, fraud and the widespread poverty and economic migration that results.But Gabriel soon discovers that popularity never guarantees solutions or support for...
7) Prisoners
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Before anyone begins reading this or is instantly put off by a few graphs and pie charts, please remember this is a novel. It is about the effect of human overpopulation on a young man living in an overcrowded and increasingly troubled mega city in the year 2050 and of his meeting with his uncle, a University Professor of Biology. The Professor, a long-term advocate of pro-active human population control, is serving a sentence in an open prison related...
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Whistleblower:Huge amounts of international aid money are being stolen by those at the heart of the political establishment. Unconventional, ex politician, Jim Smith, threatened and harassed into fleeing abroad for accusations of fraud secretly returns to renew his campaign. An epic thriller covering events in the USA, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia about a stubborn man refusing to fit into any stereotype.An Honourable Fake:Gabriel Joshua...
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A selection of six short stories about international crime, corruption, espionage and terrorism taken from five of the author's full-length novels – An Old Spy Story, Whistleblower, Vendetta, An Honourable Fake and Bad Boys.The Red Lantern is a back street Chinese restaurant in the Nigerian capital, Lagos where Frank Marshall has been living for too long when he is approached by businessman Ollie Thomas. Ollie has, himself, been tasked with solving...
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A Professional Vendetta:Eccentric Oxford University Professor "Eddie" Higgins is the 'scientific adviser' to a local cosmetics company run by its new and vivacious chief executive, Isobel Johnson. It doesn't begin well. "Yours is an industry dogged by exaggerated claims, impossible claims and false claims," he tells her. So, can they work together to expose the Asian gang that has infiltrated the company?Crook Chase:Small-time New York private detective...
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Oxford University Biology Professor 'Eddie' Higgins is a veteran of student street demonstrations against environmental destruction and big business.In his sixties Eddie is still an eccentric but passionate environmental activist well-known for his total disregard for personal appearance and finds himself acting as the 'scientific adviser' to a local company, Vital Cosmetics, run by its new and vivacious chief executive, Isobel Johnson. It doesn't...
12) Crook Chase
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Small-time New York private detective Harry Donovan has personal and financial problems and when rumour suggests there's a bounty on the head of a big-time wanted fraudster linked to the jewellery business, Harry decides to track him down. Cyprus is where he thinks the action is but Harry has never been out of America before, needs help and things get complicated. Others get involved and it turns out it's not just fake jewellery but fraud on international...
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The Malthus Pandemic was first published as a novel in 2018 to highlight the perceived risk of commercial exploitation of gain of function (GOF) research on viruses. Then, in early 2020, along came the Covid pandemic and ongoing controversy about GOF research, and genetic engineering specifically with Coronaviruses.Since the Covid pandemic, the book has been recognised by many as an example of foresight and prescience.This 2023 post-Covid edition...
15) Mindscans
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While researching a story about an interface that connects the brain to a virtual reality device, reporter Sara Lincoln struggles with the technology's social and moral implications as the lines between her ethics, the virtual world, and reality blur.