Peter Ralph

When a man plunges to his death from a high rise building in San Francisco the city's streets are brought to a standstill.Why had he been holding a young girl on the ledge with a knife to her throat?Did he fall or did the shock of the bullet that ripped his shoulder apart kill him?Why had made this otherwise, peaceful, family man snap?Did the answers to these questions die with him?

Chicago born Luke Cramer loved working on Las Vegas's huge construction sites. That is until he slugged a mobster working for the union. With the mob threatening retribution, he has no choice but to run for it. With his wife and baby, he heads to Australia's Gold Coast, where he gets a lucky break, and help to start his own building business. Within a few years, young Luke is a millionaire but the lawless Builders Laborers and Mining Union (BLMU), which is worse than any American union want its payoff, and there's nothing it won't do to get it. Complaining to politicians and the police doesn't help because the BLMU's paying them off. Desperate, Luke returns to Chicago and recruits his best friend and hitman, Joe "Ratsy" Ratsch, to level the playing field. When the BLMU appoints a powerful new leader with murder on his agenda, the stakes are ratcheted up. Will Luke survive to enjoy his hard-earned success?

When New York plastic surgeon, Jack Donahue, is blamed for the mistakes of an anaesthetist that leave a girl in a coma, his reputation is trashed.Looking to leave his past behind, he changes his name, heads off down under, and makes a fresh start in Sydney. Driven by greed and lust, Donahue soon makes a name for himself as the finest plastic surgeon in Australia, but in his mind, he is the finest in the world.Handsome, charming and narcissistic, he's soon a multimillionaire, but he wants more - much more. When an opportunity to become super wealthy by marrying money presents itself, he seizes it.Will his young wife wake up to him before it's too late?

What would you do if you were framed by the woman you lusted after, and sentenced to twenty years in an Asian prison?Would it make any difference if the heinous crimes that you'd gotten away with carried longer sentences?Would knowing that your actions led directly to the suicide of your financial controller play on your conscience?Blind hate kept Douglas Aspine alive in Changi Prison. He had no compassion for those he had hurt, only the lust for revenge.Would Aspine succeed in bringing down those who had framed him?

When little Charlie Paxton aged only six passes away with a mysterious form of cancer, his father, Charles, swears to have his revenge. The water and the air in the Fisher Valley was pristine before the coal seam gas companies arrived with government endorsed gas exploration and development licences. Then they marched roughshod over the owners of privately owned highly productive farming and grazing land, paying them little in the way of compensation. After drilling they pumped water, sand and toxic chemicals at high pressure hundreds of metres into the ground in a process known as fracking that exploded the coal seams, releasing the methane while giving scant attention to the ground, air and water pollution they were creating. Charles Paxton is determined to stop the gas companies even if it means blowing up their wells and blocking their access to agricultural properties. But big gas is powerful and backed by rapacious governments who won't hesitate to use their police and army to smash through blockades. Can an unlikely alliance of farmers, greens and conservatives stand against the might of big gas and the governments complicit in helping it?

Come with Joe from his childhood journey from Lebanon to Australia to the poker table at the World Series of Poke Championship where he made poker history.