Kirjahaku

Rex Macare returns to New Zealand after several years on the front line of the Cold War in Germany, a pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is still young and restless and keen to make some real money. He puts the word around that he's a pilot for hire and it's not long before he finds himself deeply involved in the mercenary business, covert flying in Europe, Asia, and North Africa for serious money, but it's dangerous, very dangerous as he begins to realise as he is drawn inextricably into the big money high risk business. He meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kate, a fashion model and this introduces him to a wild sex scene.The story is set around the world, the South Seas, Vietnam, Paris, Algeria, Australia, and the DDR, the German Democratic Republic, the old East Germany.It's a fast moving story that I'm sure you will enjoy.This is the author's first novel, there have been a couple of autobiographies and a collection of short stories but the ultimate for a writer has to be the novel where the imagination is given free reign. All fiction however does need some facts to make it credible. The author's extensive experience of aviation, and life in general, has provided the knowledge to enable the writing of this story. There will be more, the second novel is well under way.

A collection of short stories covering a wide range of everyday experiences that most readers will be able to relate to. Childhood memories feature large. Albert McConaghie's tale of matrimonial woe and subsequent happiness is told in three parts interspersed amongst amusing short stories.

A young girl leaves New Zealand for Europe, the big OE. She goes alone, wants do her own thing, unrestricted by others, experience everything. A skilled boaty she wants to crew on a superyacht; she disappears. Her boyfriend, Michael, becomes concerned at the sudden lack of communication and sets off to find her; he disappears.Michael's father Frank, a retired detective, becomes alarmed and sets off to find them both. He discovers a frightening underworld of drug smuggling, murder, and prostitution, dominated by several powerful families. It's devouvred these two youngsters from far off New Zealand.A fast moving story of romance, adventure, and danger set in Paris, Athens, and Istanbul, and spills out into the Pacific.