Kirjahaku

Jack Collins was a happily married and successful Perth businessman. So why didn't he return home after a routine interstate conference? And why hasn't he been seen since? To find the answers, Jack's tormented sister-in-law recruits an ex-cop with a dark history. What she gets is not what she expects. Perhaps the CCTV footage that shows her sister's husband coolly assassinating a Sydney crime boss might provide a clue. Or it might not.

When the father of a missing scientist asks an aging ex-NSW detective to find her. The last thing the cop expects, is to be dragged through the depraved underbelly of Australian politics. There is big money at stake for a West Australian billionaire who is a major political sponsor. He has a powerful control over the decisions of government and he expects his plans to stay on track. With only a few days left to the signing of contracts, any disruption to those plans must be eliminated.

A retired special-forces soldier is set to expose the corruption and decadence of the upper levels of Australian society. The day arrives to present his evidence but there is a glitch and he is ordered to flee to Western Australia, where he finds himself in the frame for the murder of a 14-year-old boy. The killer's intended victim, was, a lawyer about to start a new job with her old boss, a QC known for his success in prosecuting political corruption trials. When the counter-terrorism laws are used against her current business partner, she suspects someone other than the elected government is controlling the strings of power, and her past comes back to haunt her.

When Syrah Barberra took an infill job before uni, it turned into a three-year gap. She was then a talented student who has since added MMA to her skills. Her short-term money spinner, a once in a lifetime challenge, is now history and her scholarship at a leading university college can begin. With stars in her eyes, and on her first international flight, she's unaware that the passenger in the next seat will play a part in her future. What happens makes for a shaky start, but it leads to friendship with a cop who understands her point of view. As their relationship grows, and her studies progress, the lessons learned in her gap prove useful and she's swept into a secretive police world. A world where cops spy on cops

Syrah Barberra achieved success in her first overseas trip. Recruited into the police force while she powered to her degree in law. She rose rapidly through the ranks, via the mascinations of a man she believed she could trust, to become engaged in an investigation into deep state corruption. She surpassed all expectations but when two governments and a criminal organisation send their best to hunt her down, she becomes the quarry of those who corrupt. Three to one are heavy odds.

Syrah Barberra has never been a proper copper. Fired up the ranks to help a bent cop get his way she has become the fall guy. The bigger they are the bigger they fall. The bigger the diversion for the corrupt top cops who have appointed her in the expectation of failure. For the last five years She has been the hunted quarry of two governments and merciless criminals. Now alone, but for her daughter, a constant reminder of a brief moment of happiness, and a few trusted friends in support. The times have changed. The tables are about to be turned and a chance meeting on a train helps her focus her mind. She will become a bird of prey and hunt down those who have tormented her, and cruelly eliminated the people she loved. She must win. Or die in the attempt.

Syrah Barberra returns to Perth with expectations of joining the legal practice of an old friend and becoming a proper mother to her first child. The friend has a different understanding and when offered a specialist position by the Police Commissioner, Evan Watkins, she's reluctant. Pregnant with her second child, she knows she will be available for only two or three months, but Evan is undeterred. He knows her skills and needs an outsider, a cleanskin, to clear up a corrupt mess on his patch. She takes the job, on the understanding that she will have a free hand, and that when her time draws close, she will be released from her obligations. What follows takes her back to her childhood and opens her eyes to the true nature of those she reveres the most.

It's 2055 and Western Australia has long since seceded from the Commonwealth to become an independent republic. It seemed like a good idea back then, but with changes to the constitution, following a rigged referendum, a one-party state has emerged. Now, only those with corporate or political citizenships have rights, and all challengers are financially destroyed by a corrupted judiciary. Syrah Barberra wanted nothing more than a quiet life until they killed her family. Now twenty years later, technology has advanced and her time has come to fight back and restore the status quo. Supported by a mysterious reincarnation of, Magnus, her long dead husband, she calls on the help of some old friends.

Global warming has reached a tipping point. The President of the United States believes the world will be a better place if split, north and south, by an imaginary border that protects the wealth of his powerful friends from a resource hungry world. Imported goods will have massive tariffs, with technology exports equally overpriced, and all immigration will be banned. While the planet starves, a pandemic takes its toll and nuclear war looms. The imaginary border, known as The Second Meridian, is only one part of his plan. Another is to send hundreds of handpicked elites into space, to orbit in pods for the duration of the impending war, before returning to rebuild. One pod inadvertently leaves orbit, and with nowhere to go, the crew-five males and five females-must make the best of their supplies or take the self-destruct option. As they enter deep space the nuclear war erupts, and they cannot return. With gravity drawing them closer to the sun, they must ponder their fate. What freak of nature will help them survive?

A selection of weird, wild and wacky short stories, that are guaranteed to be free from political correctness, but not traces of tree nuts, peanuts, pineapples, lactose, gluten, and gratuitous sexual inferences. As there is no guarantee that this book has not been printed using machinery that may have been used for the processing of tree nuts and peanuts, or products containing lactose or gluten. The author recommends that readers with allergies of any kind clad themselves in hazmat bodysuits, constructed using non-allergenic materials, and equipped with the appropriate breathing apparatus.