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Nik Morton is the author of a collection of 23 crime short stories collected in Leon Cazador, P.I., a romantic thriller series Catalyst, Catacomb and Cataclysm, Write a Western in 30 Days, three psychic spy Cold War thrillers Mission: Prague, Mission: Tehran, and Mission: Khyber, a romantic crime thriller An Evil Trade, a vampire thriller set in Malta, Chill of the Shadow, and five other collections of his short stories: Gifts from a Dead Race (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Nourish a Blind Life (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Visitors (westerns), Codename Gaby (historical), I Celebrate Myself (crime and adventure). He is also the author of the noir western Cash Laramie adventures, Bullets for a Ballot and Coffin for Cash, and two sci-fi novellas in ...more

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	Bullets For A Ballot 3.95 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write a Western in 30 Days: With Plenty of Bullet-Points! 3.82 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spanish Eye 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coffin for Cash (Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles Book 12) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood of the Dragon Trees 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prague Papers (#1 Tana Standish Series) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rogue Prey: A Leon Cazador Thriller 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sudden Vengeance Waits 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catalyst (#1 in the 'Avenging Cat' series) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudden Vengeance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jack Higgins’s wartime novel Lucian’s Luck was published in 1981. American forces landed on the southern coast of Sicily in July 1943 and they advanced rapidly thanks to the co-operation of the Sicilian Mafia. Apparently this was engineered by Charle ...more
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It has taken me ten years to discover this ‘new’ thriller writer. Frank Gardner’s debut novel Crisis was published in 2016 and it is a page-turner. In 110 chapters, this fast-paced thriller has all the ingredients. Suspenseful undercover intrigue in t ...more
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This is a fascinating history of the Military Intelligence department responsible for organising and aiding the escape of prisoners of war and the evasion of Allied troops stranded in enemy territory during WWII. MI 9 Escape and Evasion is written by ...more
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Garry Kilworth’s novel A Theatre of Timesmiths was published in 1984. It is a cold claustrophobic world that Kilworth has created: ‘It was a city of freezing mists, emerging each morning like a grey, ridged beast through layers of swamp fog’ (p1). The ...more
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The history book The Fatal Shore: A history of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes was published in 1986 to widespread acclaim. The title ‘Fatal Shore’ was used in convict ballads. Certainly, transportation proved fa ...more
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