Kirjahaku

When actors and technicians from the Omega Film Company are abducted and held to ransom in Colombia by a merciless junta overlord, it falls to some familiar faces to stop a near tragedy. Mac is back. Ex-SAS captain Eli 'Mac' Murray and his wife, former Israeli Army captain Sarah are plunged into an all-too-familiar world of murder, abduction and international plots. When Diego Contrero Moretta requests payment for the return of the captured film makers, Mac and Sarah become the captives' only chance of making it out alive. Crisis in Colombia follows on from Bryan Marlowe's thrilling novels Recalled to Arms and Leaving Mercy to Heaven in which the couple had to fight a fanatical terrorist group in Africa and the Middle East. Drawing on years of experience with the Royal Air Force, police, diplomatic service and as a newspaper columnist, the author weaves a new tale of international proportions in which Mac and Sarah find themselves battling both time and the unrelenting demands of Moretta to save the innocent abductees. Crisis in Colombia is an action packed thriller featuring a deadly race across the globe against a determined captor with several tricks up his sleeve.

When an investment company loses millions of its clients' money through the collapse of an African copper mining venture, there are plenty of angry investors who are out for revenge. But did one of them go so far as to murder the company's most unscrupulous salesman, Lance Rackman, the man who sold them the worthless shares? And in particular, could Rackman's killer have been Bob Carson, a retired regimental sergeant major with an unblemished record? Carson certainly had a motive. Most of the local police force see it as an open and shut case, but it seems the truth is not so simple...

The building and repair work carried out by dangerously incompetent and unscrupulous builders, often known as "cowboys," is widely reported in newspapers and investigations into their nefarious activities are popular and thought-provoking television documentaries. This publicity helps to warn the unwary of the misery, unjustifiable costs and even death that can result by employing unskilled building workers to carry out improvements and, often-unnecessary, repairs to their homes. The cowboy builder will always ask for "cash-up-front" before he starts to work. Later, he will ask for more cash, because he "underestimated the work and material needed to finish the job". If the householder is unable or unwilling to part with more money, the cowboy will leave the property in such a state that it is an unsafe dwelling.