Robert Menzies

Delma is a simple-living country girl who loves camels. She talks her boyfriend Martin into taking an ill-advised road trip in an old Bedford truck into Australia's Outback to search for feral camels, then try to capture some and bring them home to milk them.They head for the Strzelecki Desert in South Australia, one of the most remote places in Australia. It is when they stop at a lonely truck stop in the middle of the desert, that things go horribly wrong.The owners of the truck stop are two losers, known in the area as Jerk-Off Jeff and Gelignite Jessie. In an attempt to escape from these people's clutches, Martin breaks Jeff's nose and Delma shoots Jessie in the stomach, requiring a call to the Air Ambulance that takes her to hospital in Thargomindah. She remains there in a critical condition.Delma and Martin find a place in the desert to camp. They decide to continue their search for camels, despite the fact that a police chopper keeps hovering ominously above them. When the chopper eventually lands, Delma and Martin expect to be arrested. They are told however, that the two people they seriously injured have not pressed charges, something they cannot understand.They are invited to lunch at a sheep station not far from their campsite. The owners of the property, one of the largest in Australia, are very hospitable and offer to help them protect them from Jeff if comes after them, as they are sure he will. Their prediction proves to be true. Jeff comes after them with a vengeance and mayhem results. Strange things begin to happen and Del and Martin are unable to tell who their friends and enemies are. People and animals are murdered in a frenzy of revenge and bloodshed that takes them all back fifty years when rapes and murders took place in the old homestead and the perpetrators were never caught. Del and Martin find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue that seems to become more and more complex and obscure the longer they stay at the sheep station. But they soon discover they cannot leave. There are evil forces at work that will ensure they meet the same demise as the station-owners' predecessors.

Ingrid and her daughter Sally go to visit Ingrid's mother. She reveals to them some deep dark secrets of her past. She tells Ingrid that during World War II she was a spy for British Intelligence. Ingrid believes her mother is suffering from dementia and doesn't believe a word. So Jane then reveals her story, beginning with her time in France, working as a British spy and living in a chateau that is occupied by Nazi officers. She recounts stories of rape, torture, imprisonment and murder that make Ingrid's blood run cold.Ingrid however, is still unconvinced that her mother is telling the truth. So, in order to prove her story, Jane takes her daughter and granddaughter to meet some people who survived the war with her and who can verify her amazing tale.Eventually Ingrid, although horrified, becomes convinced that her mother is in fact telling the truth. Her mother explains that her silence has been to protect Ingrid and her daughter Sally from harm, because her past has now come back to haunt her. As Jane continues to reveal the sordid details of her clandestine involvement in the war, frightening things begin happening to her, to Ingrid and Sally, escalating into open conflict, kidnapping, bloodshed and murder, from which there appears to be no escape.

Dr James Ulrich is finally settled in retirement - or so he thinks.His wife June purchases a coffee shop and makes James manager - 'to help still his itchy feet, ' she claims.But the coffee shop comes with some encumbrances: June has gone into a business partnership with James' old nemesis, Shelley Hancock. And to add salt to the wound, she has employed her gaolbird brother Andrew, as a waiter.James is incensed by his wife's poor judgement. However, he agrees to manage the shop for a month on a trial basis.Strange and disturbing things start happening almost immediately. James' car is bombed, and he is shot at in the street. When he suspects that his attempted assassin is another one of his old nemeses, Roger Hamilton, James goes searching for Hamilton, only to be captured and taken prisoner by Hamilton's stepbrother, Slim.James soon discovers that he has been captured for reasons he could never have imagined: to help care for fifty illegally imported Burmese pythons that Hamilton has planned to kill for their skins and make himself a fortune. It soon becomes clear to James that there is a very strong criminal connection between the Hancocks, the Hamiltons, and the Burmese pythons.James is kept a prisoner whilst caring for the pythons, under the watchful eye of giant Negro known as Leroy. When Leroy starts feeding the pythons a taboo type of flesh, James is shocked and appalled. He is suddenly in fear of his own life. As the pythons grow older and larger they become more and more aggressive, and exceedingly dangerous to be around.James comes to love the pythons however, regarding them as his pets. He does everything in his power to try and prevent Slim and Leroy killing them for their skins.But the pythons have wills of their own. They decide who their friends and enemies are, and before long, human beings become hapless victims of the pythons' deadly death lock

Al Capone Andrews has a story to tell about four bored university students who come together one wet day to form a band, to be known as 'The Sublimated Urge'.The band struggles through the minefields of drug and alcohol abuse, carnal knowledge charges, brawls, bloodshed and even murder, before they realise the exquisite chemistry that exists between them for writing songs and performing them on stage.These four young men discover that writing poetry can be a catharsis for alleviating the pain and suffering they have all been through.From humble beginnings, the band eventually achieves stardom, but the costs along the way are destructive and irretrievable.

This is a book of stories and poems about people.The author has put together forty years of observations of children, adolescents and adults in situations of love, hate, obsession, conflict, harmony and disharmony - observations that have coloured his life.

Dr James Ulrich has been out of prison for just on a year. He has been reunited with June, his wife of 28 years and life is pretty good.A chance phone call from his old nemesis, Al Hancock, reveals the existence of an invaluable gold nugget that has been kept concealed in the cellar of a waterfront mansion in Sydney Harbour for over a century. Al plans to steal it and blackmails James into joining him in the venture.The aftermath of the theft leads James on a frenzied trail of retribution, kidnapping, bloodshed and murder as he desperately tries to escape the evil tentacles of Al Hancock. The trail takes him to Fiji and then to a lonely Pacific island where he finally comes face-to-face with the grim reaper.

Dirk Daniels wakes up in a hospital bed after being in a coma for four weeks. He learns that he and his wife Michelle were in a car accident and Michelle was killed.He also learns that he is the chief suspect in her murder. He has no memory of the event or the months preceding it.In an attempt to escape his pursuers and regain his shattered memory he escapes to a lonely beach in Morocco, where he experiences for the first time the drug, 'Moroccan Gold' which opens up his mind in ways he never imagined...

Noni and Kenji grow up in poverty in the street slums of Phnom Penh.Their father walks out out on them when they are babies and their mother is killed in a factory accident. At twelve years of age Kenji has his leg blown off in a land mind explosion.In order to survive, Kenji becomes a street beggar and Noni becomes a prostitute at the age of fourteen.Thousands of kilometres away in Queensland Australia, Tina and Roy are brought up in very different circumstances under the loving care of a hard-working farmer and his wife. But their life is difficult too, struggling to survive at the mercy of the harsh western Queensland climate.In a strange twist of fate Tina and Kenji are brought together in Southampton, England where a psychotic murderer begins terrorising Tina. In her frantic bid to escape his clutches she discovers some amazing things about Kenji. But even Kenji cannot save her from the terrors and traumas that await her.

Jason is a loner who wakes up penniless on a deserted railway station somewhere in Outback Australia.In a lonely cafe he spies a woman whom he recognises from many years ago - as the girl he grew up with, whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. He discovers that Doreen has a daughter named Shirley who was taken off her by the authorities ten years ago when she and her partner were both drug addicts.They rescue Shirley from an orphanage in Sydney. She is now a 'troubled teenager'.As a means of rehabilitation, Jason and Doreen take Shirley back to their home town of Casterton to revive some old memories and perhaps aid Shirley's healing process.In Casterton they discover some shocking things about their own families. Jason finds that many memories of his childhood have been repressed and altered in his own mind. He comes across some disturbing facts about himself, his brother, his mother and particularly his father, who he once believed was a man of impeccable values and standards.The more Jason delves into his past, the more shocking are the things he uncovers, until he begins to seriously doubt his own sanity.What follows is a hauntingly painful trip down memory lane for Jason, where many long-held myths are exploded in his face. This is compounded by the fact that Shirley's condition becomes increasingly more serious as she experiments with drugs, self-harm and attempted suicide.

Loser and social misfit Kim Prune has changed his name to Benito Mussolini, aiming to become a world-famous serial killer.Ivan Jevenko, once a decorated journalist, is now a lonely fugitive. The drug baron he exposed was never caught. Ivan believes the man is trying to kill him after burning down his house and murdering Ivan's parents.Forced to learn some deadly self-defence techniques as a means of survival, Ivan has managed to kill two would-be assassins before they could get to him.He meets an attractive but damaged woman who appears to be alone and lonely, just like him. It becomes obvious after their first meeting that she knows a lot more about Ivan than is healthy for either of them. He is immediately on guard.He finds himself embroiled in a tumult of murder and retribution from Mussolini and the drug-running assassins and discovers more and more disturbing facts about Rebecca's past, suspecting that she is working with others to destroy him.He must use every ounce of his courage, guile and skill to survive and bring his enemies to justice.Or kill them before they kill him.