Ray Boxall

Someone or something very advanced, on Earth or from somewhere else, has seemingly decided to save humanity from its insane excesses, regardless of the utter mayhem it will trigger in the short term. But it is the secret, secondary agenda that will be far more positive and enduring for the human race- both in its past and in its future....... eventually

Crime thriller set in London in the present. Taking place over an eight day period during Easter, what starts as a massive police effort to finally end the criminal career of London's biggest home-grown drug dealer turns into a nightmare as lives are lost, reputations destroyed, and personal relationships are shattered.Nineteen years ago, as a teenager, Detective Inspector Ray Chalmers applied to join the Metropolitan Police Force, arguing it needed people like him from the City's huge social housing estates as they could best relate to the criminals' outlook and lives. But he told lies on his application form. Now, when agreeing to join the Serious Crime Squad that is after London's biggest drug dealer, he omits to mention he once lived with the man's sister-in-law.In attempting to get his revenge on the man for destroying his teenage years, Ray leaves no stone unturned, using his private knowledge of the man. But no-one is prepared for the murderous response of the dealer's secret Russian business associates.Then Ray's secret past returns to haunt him when he meets the nineteen year old girl that he abandoned when she was only five months' old. She has all the answers to the case, but is also the go-between for the drug dealer and his Russian associates, and has long written off her life as valueless. She also has her own secret agenda and, clashing with Ray, unleashes her resentment on him without caring about the possible consequences to herself. It leaves a guilt-stricken Ray with no choice but to prevent her from self-destruction, and stake everything on bringing the dealer and his associates to justice.

Present day police crime/political thriller. This is one of the fastest-moving crime novels around- and is set in the unlikeliest of places When two detectives are murdered in what appears to be a ritual killing a few kilometres outside the central Australian town of Alice Springs, Darwin's police chief immediately sends its most experienced detective to assist; Senior detective Mick Reagan.He finds himself faced with a riddle 'that seems to contain bits of other puzzles.' The second in command in the town's police force is Senior Sergeant Jimmy Morgan, an ex-military control freak that knows the town and its residents better than anyone, and is convinced he knows who killed the two officers, but refuses to disclose any information until he can prove it. Reagan's clashes with Morgan escalate to almost physical confrontation as the Darwin detective points out flaws in Morgan's reasoning and begins to look for alternative suspects. Friction increases between the two men when Reagan strikes up a professional relationship with Sandra Howlett, a brilliant multi-millionaire lawyer who is based in Alice Springs but seems to have most of Australia's major business moguls and senior politicians on her speed-dial. She also represents several of Morgan's suspects. When a police officer on sick leave commits suicide and Morgan dies from a bullet in his head, the authorities have no option but to call in the Feds as Alice's police force teeters on collapse and media attention goes international. Reagan throws the rule book away, using the Fed's superior legal powers to obtain the additional information he needs, whilst infuriating them by withholding snippets of information in order to stay on the case- purely because he realises he is likely to become the scapegoat in the inevitable enquiry, and also a number of innocent people will have their lives ruined. As he tries to outsmart Sandra Howlett in their professional clashes he senses she's playing games with him because she already knows the killers. In desperation, he attempts to pit his legal expertise head to head with hers, leading his superior to warn him 'you've gone so far out on a limb, you've left the tree behind- you're walking on fresh air ' And that is when a comment made by Morgan to Howlett seconds before his death means he will have to protect the woman from a catastrophe that could destroy her, and even change Australia's financial and political future.

PLEASE NOTE THIS NOVEL CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.. Introducing Cathy- a mature, modern-day version of "Lolita" and "Carrie" combined. When petite Carrie's mother is brutally murdered, a few weeks short of Carrie's fifteenth birthday, the youngster is brought by social workers to live with her ageing grandparents that she never even knew existed. However, she soon falls foul of the odious Travis Clan, who ride roughshod over the small farming community of Murray Falls in the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia. But Cathy has two huge secrets in her life. The first, when she hit an early, physically painful puberty, is the ability to telepathically multiply a male's arousal to monumental heights, which Cathy had used to become a pubescent mistress to a billionaire. It had enabled Cathy and her mother to escape their crap lives and live a life of luxury, and was disclosed to no-one. The second secret, known only to a shadowy senior agent of the FBI, is that her mother's horrific murder has turned Cathy into a cold-blooded killer with no concern whatever for her own survival. So when members of the Travis Clan rape and kill the only friend she has, Cathy uses her first secret to sexually ensnare the local sheriff to protect her back and prevent the FBI from rekindling their interest in her. She then uses her second secret on the Travis Clan. "Justice comes first; the law comes second". In the escalating secret war that ensues, casualties mount on both sides.

Meet Marcia Kadolez, aged 26 and highly intelligent. then hold on for a rollicking, unique, insanely twisting modern political saga as she deals and wheels like a modern female Machiavelli. The storyline was created when TIME magazine ran an article describing how Mafia wives were stepping into their husbands' shoes as their menfolk were killed or imprisoned. The novel is set on a fictitious island off the western Dalmatian coast in central Europe, is extremely mountainous, with only one large town and one sealed road that keeps largely to the coast. The mainly peasant population is slowly accepting the new growth industry -tourism- which is eroding male dominance as more women are employed by the emerging service industries, but the island's veneer is still thin at times."The Widow's Ascension" is the story of Marcia's bumpy rise to power as she meets each challenge. She secretly engineers her own kidnap to provide funds for her husband's mistress's impending motherhood, and then suddenly finds herself with a chance to take control of her husband's business and political interests when he is murdered. Escaping her kidnappers, she resuscitates her scheme to build a casino complex to encourage more tourists. Despite some negative traits she cares strongly for others, with little thought for herself. The schemes are to benefit her community. But her self-belief, plus her strong Catholicism, has a na ve simplicity.However her determination to succeed at any cost also means she can be very callous. She additionally has an obsessive hatred for her late father, whereas everyone else reveres him as a self-made politician who restored the island's self-respect. This blinds her to the fact she is actually using her father's (dubious) business techniques as she inches her way to success. She is, in fact, a modern, female version of Machiavelli, in a very male-dominated society.As the body count mounts, and the stakes get higher, even her supremely loyal bodyguard is forced to admit that helping her "is like serving God and the Devil at the same time".

This riviting novel is as accurate as possible regarding the latest knowledge of Physics, Medicine, and Biology, It describes the possible near-future your children and grandchildren could be living in.....providing the human race doesn't obliterate itself Towards the end of the twenty-second century technology and physics have advanced to a level where the human race (under the world government of the United Nations) can safely consider sending a long-term exploration team to Tau Ceti's fifth planet, which unmanned exploratory craft have checked out on a fly-past mission. More than six times the size of Earth, with gravity 8% higher, the planet has a nitrogen-based atmosphere, is very similar to the planet Mars in its overall appearance, and by using Lightspeed-based electron propulsion it will take almost 14 years to cover the 11.88 light years in distance. Sending messages to Earth and receiving a reply will take almost 24 years, so the Space Colonists will have to make every decision- and then live (or not ) with it.The fleet of six Starships (four with 20 humans in each, and two packed with supplies) will be under the leadership of Simone and Michael Quatermain, both conceived and born illegally on an earlier Interstellar exploration to Barnards Star. SImone's stratospheric IQ is the key to the expedition's success or failure. Unlike any of the other crew-members, all of whom are outstanding experts in their respective fields, Simone and Michael are taking their two offspring with them. Joe, aged 20. is very much the thoughtful apprentice. His older sister, Lena, is considered to have a similar IQ to her mother, but has major personality flaws because of her recent past.Very little goes as planned. As soon as they arrive decisions have to be made that greatly exceed all expectations, and events grow progressively worse, both physically and mentally. Under mounting pressure, and with a Relief Fleet 7-8 years away, Simone's leadership qualities are questioned time and again. But the greatest possible malfunctions (and triumphs) are triggered by Lena's maverick behavior, which not only tests her parents' relationship to its limits, but affects the thoughts and behavior of many of the crew, and even the massive Neural computers which run everything. And it will be Lena who ultimately stuns everyone with easily the biggest punch-lines in the expedition's checkered history

"It was a freak accident; a million to one result.The Force wanted to punish the twelve women because of the way they had denigrated the town's name. It caused their bus to have a blow-out, and sent it down a slope into some bushes. The women were shaken up, but not injured.however, a big rock had ripped the gas tank off. Sixty gallons of gas bounced down the slope 'n' hit the bus like a napalm bomb. Fire is the one thing The Force can't control. the men wanted to abandon the town. Matt couldn't allow that, because of the 400 year old curse on his family, so he subsidized the town 'n' got The Force to promise it would provide each of the bereaved males with a baby. We just needed some females. Karen was the first. She was a drifter, just like you. Her two pregnancies went so smooth she's more'n happy with the life she now has, so we didn't stop ter think when you came along.A sad shake of his head at the way things had turned out, and all the deaths that had occurred because a third person had their own secret agenda.'Biggest mistake we could have made. No=one in town had ever met a gun-toting female so feral that she'd take on something as powerful as the Force.'Please note there are occasional strong adult themes throughout.