South Atlantic Soldier

Spanish speaking Welshman Tony Gomez, is mobilized with fellow T.A. soldier Yorkie Barnes to join the British task force sailing to the Falklands War. Ex Para and former boxing champion Barnes left secondary school at fifteen. He is chalk to Gomez’s cheese. Inserted behind enemy lines, to interrogate an Argentine air force pilot captured by a regular SAS patrol, it is their first taste of war. The regulars, consider the pair amateurs, unfit to wear the SAS badge. Friction boils over into violence. Running firefights, test the amateurs to the limit but give them an opportunity to prove themselves. Whilst recovering from wounds aboard a hospital ship, Tony Gomez stumbles across a shocking link to his past, which questions everything he has been told of his family history. Ten troubled years later he returns to the Falklands to find and lay a ghost. 

Helter Skelter

A fierce tropical storm leaves a five-man SAS team outnumbered and outgunned in fierce firefight, as the plot unravels with more twists and turns than a roll of razor wire. Helter Skelter is the first in a series of novels featuring Sergeant Mark Skelter, secretly self-medicating on Valium for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lucy Ryder is the 44 year old soldier’s first date since an IRA bomb killed his pregnant wife, ten years previously. Her father, ‘retired’ SAS Brigadier, Rollo Ryder runs a private international security company. Lucy is at the opposite end of the social scale to working class career soldier Skelter. The team are deployed to Somalia, to rescue two hostages – An intelligence officer with secrets vital to Britain’s national security, and a millionaire friend of the prime minister, who holds key to Skelter’s PTSD. Orders are kill the intelligence officer and save the millionaire. If he knew the truth Skelter might well do the opposite, for personal reasons. The wrong decision could destroy his last chance for happiness with Lucy. 

Skelter’s Vengeance

Self-medicating with Valium for PTSD, SAS sergeant Mark Skelter, 44, suffers flashbacks of a brutal assault he suffered as a young man. Leaving the army in 1998, he takes a private security job in Key West, Florida for Rollo Ryder, his new girl friend’s father, apparently to body-guard millionaire Richard Bell. The real mission is to gather intelligence on Bell and Skelter is drawn into a dangerous political game involving murder, US and UK security services, Irish terrorists, drug smuggling, gun running and blackmail. On the upside he is presented with an opportunity to settle old scores. The action moves between Colombia, England and the USA. 

Skelter’s Final Duty

Former SAS sergeant, Mark Skelter is now approaching 50. Ready to retire from private security work, he has one last job to do – a favour for a dying friend. He teams up with old comrades Brick Lennon and Turbo Thompson to rescue a young latino girl from drug cartel on a private Caribbean island. The plan goes awry and leads to a pursuit through the Florida Everglades. Skelter has to outwit the cartel boss and is hampered by not being able to use lethal force. He has CS gas and plastic bullets against the gang’s automatic weapons. Surprise is his major asset and when that is lost he has to rely on his wits to survive and win. 

The Dove That Grew Talons

Growing up in a South Wales mining village in the 1930s, school friends Bryn and Maddy, fall in love, but immature Bryn cannot admit to his feelings for Maddy. The extrovert girl’s flirting scares the shy chapel going, poetry loving youth whom his mother calls her little dove. Bryn spends much of his time with his Uncle Harry, an amateur Radio Ham and joins the Territorial Army Signals Corps in order to progress his passion for wireless operating. When war is declared Bryn is sent to France and during the chaotic retreat to Dunkirk in 1940, he witnesses the murder of British prisoners by Nazi SS troops. Bryn vows to avenge the atrocity and following his safe evacuation to England, volunteers for the Commandos to maximise his chances to get to grips with the enemy. Drawn into accelerated adulthood by the war and separated by duty to their country the two lovers try to maintain their relationship by letter. Both become actively involved in the fight against Nazism but security constraints compel the pair to lie to each other about exactly where they are and what they are up to. Trust is vital to a close relationship so the question is will the love survive?