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Jake Cameron's life has been cut short. Just a few years ago he had everything. A good, well paid job, a beautiful girlfriend, and excellent prospects for the future. Now he's dead. Pity really. All he had to do was give up the booze, get back on the straight and narrow, and win the heart of his one true love. Oh and stop every major crime syndicate in the world from assassinating him.

Sally Croft and her unborn son are brutally murdered. The cops have arrested someone, but Sally's husband Daniel is convinced they've got the wrong person.He tracks the man he thinks is responsible to Far North Queensland, Australia and sets about collecting evidence. But is Daniel seeking justice or just revenge, and what is the secret behind the painting "Miesbach Castle"? a secret so powerful it will cause a seemingly harmless man to commit Murder.

John Livingstone stood and slowly made his way to the kitchen. Detective Gary 'Schoolbags' Samson followed close behind. He grabbed the jug off the bench top, filled it with water and turned it on. "W-We were at a friends place, Maggie, playing cards. Her new boyfriend, Peter somebody. He was a real prick. So full of himself, Helen, that's my wife, couldn't stand him. Maggie's a bit desperate, but we both thought he was so awful we came home early. Good thing hey?" Mr. Livingstone was rambling. The adrenaline that had kept him going for the last half hour or so was wearing off and he was coming down. Coming down fast.He got himself a cup, then reached into the overhead cupboard for a jar of instant coffee. Gary noticed his hands were shaking. Suddenly the coffee jar slipped from his grasp, bounced off the bench top and smashed onto the floor, exploding into a thousand pieces and covering the floor with coffee powder. John began to shake uncontrollably, his breathing rapid and shallow. His legs gave way from under him and he slumped down onto the kitchen floor. His eyes filled then overflowed. "Oh Jesus", he wailed "Oh Jesus" over and over again. "How could anyone do that to my little girl Mr. Samson? He killed Steffy and then tried to do the same to my Becky, He raped her, cut her throat and left her to die"John let out a cry like a wounded animal. He hugged his knees to his chest and began to rock back and forth, bashing his head repeatedly against the cupboard door. Trying, perhaps, to distract himself from the unbearable pain he felt in his soul. Then John rolled over onto his side, curling up, covering his head with his arms, trying to block out the terrible thoughts that assaulted him. "He cut off her finger", he whispered, "raped her, slit her throat and then cut off her finger. Like some sort of trophy."Gary brushed away the broken glass fragments with his foot and joined the distraught man on the floor. He lifted the man into a sitting position and, leaning against the kitchen cupboard, placed his arm around John's shoulders. "It's alright John" he gently told him "I'm sure Rebecca will pull through, and I promise you, I will get the bastard who did this. I'll get him if it's the last thing I ever do". Set in the cities and outback of Australia, 'Innocent Until Proven Deadly, tells of Detective Gary 'Schoolbags' Samson and his search for the soldier responsible for the rape and murder of three women.

John Randal Ex Australian Army chopper pilotreceives an offer of a job on Oreck Island, a tropicalparadise off the coast of far north Australia.Just days after his arrival, dozens of people arestruck down with a mysterious and deadly virus.The entire island is placed under quarantine.Now John, with the help of two German Doctors sentto the island by an organisation known as the PhoenixFoundation, must race against time to find a cure forthe deadly pathogen.But what is the truth behind the deadly disease, and how is John's ex wife involved?

Recently discharged from the Australian army, Simon meets a beautiful woman while travelling to Far North Queensland in Australia. They fall in love. When they reach the city of Cairns they encounter a man called Wilson. Wilson is the head of a secret government agency called AATIO, an organization responsible for 'the lethal removal' of unwanted criminal groups and terrorist cells which cannot be dealt with in a more 'legally acceptable' manner.The young woman is accidentally killed in an assassination attempt on Wilson's life. Consumed with grief and a lust for vengeance, the ex-soldier is drafted by Wilson into the ATTIO fold and sets out on a blood soaked vendetta against the people he has been told were responsible for his wife's murder. But there is more to her death than meets the eye. As the story unfolds, the ex-soldier becomes involved in a desperate plot to assassinate the Australian Prime Minister.

Sometimes, during those few, brief moments between being fast asleep and wide awake, you may catch a glimpse of another world. A world which exists alongside ours, yet remains unseen by all but a lucky few. Such a world is the Kingdom of Rockhamptia, a world inhabited by Wizards and Witches, by Kings and Queens, by Giants and by the fierce, terrifying, eight legged creatures known as Grombletics. It is also home to the magnificent, huge winged cats known as the Morthe. This is a story from that world and the adventures of a little girl called Charlotte and her friend the Morthe.

Seventeen Galaxy class Battle Cruisers suddenly appear in the sky above the planet Tran. The massive ships contain seventeen thousand and sixty two souls, refugees from a distant, now uninhabitable planet. They are the last remaining people from a once vibrant society and unless they can find a new home their extinction is inevitable.The people of Tran are a peace loving and welcoming race, but the aliens seeking refuge are considered by many to be vermin, a race of warmongers who have pillaged countless worlds and enslaved a dozen species. Even thier own world has been destroyed by their seemingly insatiable lust for violence and conquest.But how do the compassionate Tranians respond to the refugees request? Have the aliens really, finally recognised the error of their ways and embraced peace and harmony as a way of life as they claim? Or does their arrival herald the dawn of yet another invasion, another violent atrocity at the hands of the alien vermin from across the galaxy?Crime writer Kevin Willaim Barry's first venture into science fiction.

Have you ever wondered whatever happened to all those Nuclear weapons we all used to worry about?In 1991 the Iron curtain came down, the USA and the former United Soviet Socialist Republic signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, thousands of nuclear warheads were decommissioned, and mothballed away in numerous, top secret locations all over the USA and Eastern Europe.They're still there today..... All except one.An illegal arms dealer has obtained a nuclear weapon and is on his way to deliver it to Palestine. Former USSR nuclear scientist and psychopathic killer, Vladimir Michael Berswiski, has been engaged to rearm the bomb and suddenly buying real estate in Tal-Aviv is beginning to look like a really bad idea.Australian woman Iris Richards is about to embark on a voyage through the Mediterranean and is on a collision course with Berswiski. The sailing trip of a lifetime is rapidly turning into the exact opposite.Can Major Edmond Grey of Interpol stop Berswiski before he kills again? And Is Israel on its way to becoming one of the hottest travel destinations on the globe?

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GO TO CHARITYIn the tiny outback town of Colombo Creek, Reverend Charles Albertson makes a gruesome discovery. One of his parishioners, a quiet, reclusive man is found mutilated and murdered.Detective Inspector Roger Dark is dispatched from the city to investigate.As DI Dark's investigation into the vicious murder of Eduardo Ceasere proceeds, he learns that there is more to the murder than a simple crime of passion. Ceasere's past is revealed, providing vital clues to his killer's identity and the motive for the slaying.Now DI Dark must track down the killer and bring him to justice, and he has to do it before his quarry catches up with the only witness to the crime, Ceasere's missing fourteen year old daughter.

A collection of short crime and mystery stories by Australian author Kevin William Barry

Irina Lothario, the beautiful, Russian born, wife of Australian mining magnate Oscar Lothario, is kidnapped, then brutally and senselessly murdered. Detective Inspector Andrew Daniels is charged with finding her killer.Barely coping with the tragic death of his own wife and trying desperately to raise his seven year old son without her, D.I. Daniels, together with his sexually diverse partner, D.C. Jayne Usher, attempt to chase down the four men responsible. But before their investigations can reveal the mastermind behind Irina's murder, one by one Andrew's suspects join their victim in the grave.Why was the beautiful, rich, woman killed so needlessly and violently? What deadly secret did Irina Lothario carry with her to the grave? A secret so devastating it would compel her killer to tie her to a chair and drive a garden pick into her head.Set in Far North Queensland, Australia, 'The Rich and The Dead' is Kevin William Barry's ninth novel.