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The Eagle's Covenant
Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby boy, and Franz Molke—leader of the People's Party in Germany—aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process. Ex IRA terrorist and SAS soldier, Conor Lenihan fights double cross and cyber warfare in an attempt to find the infant.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2007
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Michael Parker
18 books783 followersBrought up in London. Attended Sir Walter St. John's Grammar School for boys in Battersea until the family moved to Portsmouth in 1954. Continued education at Southern Grammar. Left school with no qualifications and started work as a Junior deigner at Twilfits (Corset/Brassiere manufacturer). Left after one year and joined the Merhcant Navy as a Steward. Two years later married Pat, my teenage sweetheart and went to work on a building site. Three months later I joined the RAF as an electrician. Left 16 years later on a redundancy package and worked in a food factory for a couple of years. Left and worked in the Middle East for a year. Then back to another food manufacturer (Mars) for 17 years until early retirement in 1996. Moved out to Spain with Pat in 1997. We have four sons, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Sadly, my wife passed away with terminal cancer. We'd been married 60 years. Pat and I moved back to England in 2014.
I have written all my adult life with moderate success. My first novel, NORTH SLOPE was published by Macmillan in 1980. My second, SHADOW OF THE WOLF in 1984 by Robert Hale. My third, HELL'S GATE was published in 2007 by Robert Hale followed by THE EAGLE'S COVENANT (2007) and THE DEVIL'S TRINITY in 2008. This was followed by THE THIRD SECRET, in 2009 and then A COVERT WAR in 2010. THE BOY FROM BERLIN was released in December 2011, and has now been picked up by Harlequin who have purchased (leased) the paperback rights for North America and Canada. Harlequin have also released my thriller, THE EAGLE'S COVENANT in paperback. I have self-published WHERE THE WICKED DWELL, NO TIME TO DIE and A SONG IN THE NIGHT. I have also written and publsiehed three Cozy Romance novekls under the pen name of Emma Carney. I also have three non-fiction titles poublished.
Robert Hale published my novel, PAST IMPERFECT, in January 2015. This is an romance with a hard edged back story. It has now been published by The Wild Rose Press in America.
I have written all my adult life with moderate success. My first novel, NORTH SLOPE was published by Macmillan in 1980. My second, SHADOW OF THE WOLF in 1984 by Robert Hale. My third, HELL'S GATE was published in 2007 by Robert Hale followed by THE EAGLE'S COVENANT (2007) and THE DEVIL'S TRINITY in 2008. This was followed by THE THIRD SECRET, in 2009 and then A COVERT WAR in 2010. THE BOY FROM BERLIN was released in December 2011, and has now been picked up by Harlequin who have purchased (leased) the paperback rights for North America and Canada. Harlequin have also released my thriller, THE EAGLE'S COVENANT in paperback. I have self-published WHERE THE WICKED DWELL, NO TIME TO DIE and A SONG IN THE NIGHT. I have also written and publsiehed three Cozy Romance novekls under the pen name of Emma Carney. I also have three non-fiction titles poublished.
Robert Hale published my novel, PAST IMPERFECT, in January 2015. This is an romance with a hard edged back story. It has now been published by The Wild Rose Press in America.
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March 14, 2015
Surprising
Good plot. Could not anticipate the end. Most characters larger than life and used to carry the plot. Interesting device.
Good plot. Could not anticipate the end. Most characters larger than life and used to carry the plot. Interesting device.
October 11, 2008
I am the author of THE EAGLE'S COVENANT. (The Kindle version is now available on Amazon). The story is set in modern Germany. Leading industrialist, Manfred Schiller is the world's richest man. His empire covers everything including arms and satellite manufacture. He is in his eighties and is planning to hand over his entire empire to the Israeli nation in recompense for the holocaust, and the fact that he is a Jew. His daughter-in-law Joanna, an English woman and now a widow has just given birth to Manny, her dead husband's son, and Schiller's heir and grandson. The baby is kidnapped by a team put in place by the right wing politician Molke, soon to be Chancellor of the new Germany because he has learned of Schiller's plans and wants to thwart them. The kidnap team include the psychotic and beautiful Brekkie de Kok, a South African renegade. It also includes Conor Lenihan, and ex SAS soldier and IRA terrorist. The kidnappers are betrayed by their own side. Lenihan escapes with his life knowing that Brekkie was responsible for the attempted murder of the other members of the team. Lenihan sets out on a course of events that bring him closer and closer to the head of the terror group, and also to Joanna where he discovers that she is a computer expert. Joanna has hacked into her dead husband's files and identified Brekkie de Kok, but has also uncovered details of the plot to turn Germany into an extreme Right Wing State. Together Joanna and Lenihan launch a cyber space attack and also learn of the whereabouts of her baby. This is a book that keeps you turning the page, but be warned; there is a twist in the tail.
March 21, 2022
Very Realistic
This story has many odd ends to bring a variety of ideas to think to the reader. The plot is more to believe of actual politics, a stage for action. No single character is the main character. Many people have a role to play. After you believe you has the end, a surprise is hits you.
This story has many odd ends to bring a variety of ideas to think to the reader. The plot is more to believe of actual politics, a stage for action. No single character is the main character. Many people have a role to play. After you believe you has the end, a surprise is hits you.
March 22, 2017
Not Kindle Unlimited, must have been from one of my freebie sites. Not overly fond of thrillers, and this was interesting premise and all that, just couldn't get in to it, so now sure how much me and how much the book.
December 20, 2013
Interesting read. even more interesting ending…did not see that coming!
August 8, 2015
"A complex but commendable book"
This is an excellent thriller. The plot moves along briskly, but with purpose. The violence is necessarily graphic. The prospect of an all-powerful Germany dominating a united Europe may be on the horizon; the old adversaries from Germany and Israel add a different feel to the ultra-modern overview. Somehow one of the terrorist characters morphs into someone likeable. There was so much going on it was difficult to put down. There were elements of the book that harked back to writers of an earlier era, during the Cold War and yet the action was unequivocally of the moment. I enjoyed it immensely.
This is an excellent thriller. The plot moves along briskly, but with purpose. The violence is necessarily graphic. The prospect of an all-powerful Germany dominating a united Europe may be on the horizon; the old adversaries from Germany and Israel add a different feel to the ultra-modern overview. Somehow one of the terrorist characters morphs into someone likeable. There was so much going on it was difficult to put down. There were elements of the book that harked back to writers of an earlier era, during the Cold War and yet the action was unequivocally of the moment. I enjoyed it immensely.
August 2, 2020
Superb Read
This is an excellent read with many twists and a very unexpected end.
The characters are well described and believable
This is an excellent read with many twists and a very unexpected end.
The characters are well described and believable
November 5, 2024
The Eagle’s Covenant is a fast-paced book that had me hooked from page one. The storyline is well developed and there are many twists and turns. The characters are interesting and flawed but definitely intriguing. The book is about Manfred Schiller, a very wealthy and powerful man, that has the ability to control most aspects of people’s lives. The interesting thing is that the key to his power is Frank Molke, a week-old baby. As you may imagine Schiller has enemies and there are others who want power. Someone tries to kidnap the baby but isn’t successful, however, the baby disappears. Who has the baby? Will they gain power? The rest of the book is twists and turns keeping you guessing. The ending was quite surprising.
September 15, 2024
‘What’s the meaning of this outrage?’
British author Michael Parker, who at present lives in Spain, has been actively writing and publishing books for over thirty years - NORTH SLOPE, A COVERT WAR, ROSELLI'S GOLD, HELL'S GATE, THE DEVIL'S TRINITY, SHADOW OF THE WOLF, THE BOY FROM BERLIN, and this book THE EAGLE'S COVENANT (`thrillers that touch all bases: kidnap, murder, political intrigue, double cross. In fact; all the elements needed for an exciting read'). But his fingers are not always on the pen or keyboard as he as been employed as a maintenance technician most of his adult life, serving sixteen years in the Royal Air Force, a Merchant Seaman, office boy, general maintenance for a chicken farm, and about seventeen years with a food manufacturer. A member and a contributing editor for the International Thriller Writers, he worked on a global project with eleven other writers and produced a novel called PASSAGE TO REDEMPTION in 2009
Parker delves into his tale with a rather startling near S&M type conversation between a South African Breggie de Kok and her consort Joseph over the use of weaponry (chilling and then humorous...), revealing some facts about Breggie that are pertinent to the story that follows. Then like an abrupt jolt we are in the hospital waiting room presence of one Manfred Schiller (Parker's description makes this worth quoting): `Immense wealth sat comfortably on the shoulders of Manfred Schiller like the well cut, expensive jacket he was wearing; wealth that had been accumulated by a high intellect, courage, shrewd investments, hard work, plotting, cheating and scrupulous planning: wealth that reached stratospheric proportions as he looked down on other billionaires from the lofty plateau of his rightful place as the world's richest man. Wealth that came from armaments, oil, communications, aerospace, commerce and banking. Schiller's wealth was the kind that beckoned Presidents and Monarchs. It was wealth where others bent the knee and touched the forelock. If a man's wealth was a measure of his power, then Manfred Schiller was the most powerful individual in the world, and that power meant that although he was now eighty five years of age, no man, King, President or commoner dared keep Herr Schiller waiting.' We learn he is waiting on his week-old grandson, the child of his deceased son Hansi. And in the midst of all of these disparate sidebars there is lurking the plot to kidnap the infant which happens as Schiller, his daughter in law, and her infant son are caught up in a high security caravan to Schiller's home - the scene of mass carnage and the resultant kidnapping of the infant. And as the author's synopsis reads, `Franz Molke--leader of the People's Party in Germany--aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process. Ex IRA terrorist and SAS soldier, Conor Lenihan fights double cross and cyber warfare in an attempt to find the infant.'
Parker's manner in driving this relentless story resembles the speed of bullets flying out of an Uzi and he paces this novel so well that leaving it for a moment feels uncomfortable - the true sign of a gifted author. In a time when so many books and films rely on fantasy and special effects to terrify audiences, it is a pleasure to encounter a writer from whose pen flows a story that simply with words on a page can shoulder the same degree of tension based not on aliens or Marvel comic book characters, but solely of the extremes of very human personalities. This is an author who will thrive with American audiences. Watch for film offers....
British author Michael Parker, who at present lives in Spain, has been actively writing and publishing books for over thirty years - NORTH SLOPE, A COVERT WAR, ROSELLI'S GOLD, HELL'S GATE, THE DEVIL'S TRINITY, SHADOW OF THE WOLF, THE BOY FROM BERLIN, and this book THE EAGLE'S COVENANT (`thrillers that touch all bases: kidnap, murder, political intrigue, double cross. In fact; all the elements needed for an exciting read'). But his fingers are not always on the pen or keyboard as he as been employed as a maintenance technician most of his adult life, serving sixteen years in the Royal Air Force, a Merchant Seaman, office boy, general maintenance for a chicken farm, and about seventeen years with a food manufacturer. A member and a contributing editor for the International Thriller Writers, he worked on a global project with eleven other writers and produced a novel called PASSAGE TO REDEMPTION in 2009
Parker delves into his tale with a rather startling near S&M type conversation between a South African Breggie de Kok and her consort Joseph over the use of weaponry (chilling and then humorous...), revealing some facts about Breggie that are pertinent to the story that follows. Then like an abrupt jolt we are in the hospital waiting room presence of one Manfred Schiller (Parker's description makes this worth quoting): `Immense wealth sat comfortably on the shoulders of Manfred Schiller like the well cut, expensive jacket he was wearing; wealth that had been accumulated by a high intellect, courage, shrewd investments, hard work, plotting, cheating and scrupulous planning: wealth that reached stratospheric proportions as he looked down on other billionaires from the lofty plateau of his rightful place as the world's richest man. Wealth that came from armaments, oil, communications, aerospace, commerce and banking. Schiller's wealth was the kind that beckoned Presidents and Monarchs. It was wealth where others bent the knee and touched the forelock. If a man's wealth was a measure of his power, then Manfred Schiller was the most powerful individual in the world, and that power meant that although he was now eighty five years of age, no man, King, President or commoner dared keep Herr Schiller waiting.' We learn he is waiting on his week-old grandson, the child of his deceased son Hansi. And in the midst of all of these disparate sidebars there is lurking the plot to kidnap the infant which happens as Schiller, his daughter in law, and her infant son are caught up in a high security caravan to Schiller's home - the scene of mass carnage and the resultant kidnapping of the infant. And as the author's synopsis reads, `Franz Molke--leader of the People's Party in Germany--aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant. The kidnap fails, but the baby disappears in the process. Ex IRA terrorist and SAS soldier, Conor Lenihan fights double cross and cyber warfare in an attempt to find the infant.'
Parker's manner in driving this relentless story resembles the speed of bullets flying out of an Uzi and he paces this novel so well that leaving it for a moment feels uncomfortable - the true sign of a gifted author. In a time when so many books and films rely on fantasy and special effects to terrify audiences, it is a pleasure to encounter a writer from whose pen flows a story that simply with words on a page can shoulder the same degree of tension based not on aliens or Marvel comic book characters, but solely of the extremes of very human personalities. This is an author who will thrive with American audiences. Watch for film offers....
September 23, 2024
The Eagle’s Covenant by Michael Parker slowly draws you in before the author unleashes an avalanche of activity. Manfred Schiller didn’t become the richest man in the world without enemies. When his infant grandson and only heir are involved in a kidnap attempt, he takes action. Not surprising that the baby’s mother is desperate to find her child. What is surprising is the man she teams up with, one of the initial kidnappers. This book has twists that keep you wondering what the characters will do next. I wasn’t expecting the ending, but I was warned it would end differently than expected.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Eagle’s Covenant, but if you’ve read any of Michael Parker’s books, you would know the plot goes a little deeper and the characters are more complex. This is a thriller that will be remembered.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Eagle’s Covenant, but if you’ve read any of Michael Parker’s books, you would know the plot goes a little deeper and the characters are more complex. This is a thriller that will be remembered.
November 29, 2022
3 stars, was 1, but it was ok, I'd like a different ending.
First 50 pages were booooring - I would have trashed it, but I was reading during nap time, so if baby ruined it, I wouldn't be heart broken. But it was needed for the middle to make sense
After 50pg - moved so fast! Went back and forth between a few characters, always progressing.
Ending - I get it. But I also thought it would turn out differently.
First 50 pages were booooring - I would have trashed it, but I was reading during nap time, so if baby ruined it, I wouldn't be heart broken. But it was needed for the middle to make sense
After 50pg - moved so fast! Went back and forth between a few characters, always progressing.
Ending - I get it. But I also thought it would turn out differently.
December 1, 2024
Just read it. Fast paced, interesting and WHAT? Without having a singular main character you need to pay attention, but even at that you will be surprised. I recommend this book to everyone. There is something so fantastic in any genre that gets a "what did I just read" (scratching your head ) fantastic ending.
January 8, 2025
Demands tour attention
Not many books get you hooked, struggled to put it down, great story and set in my favourite country next to England
Not many books get you hooked, struggled to put it down, great story and set in my favourite country next to England
May 13, 2015
Good thriller
Fine writing and difficult to put down the book. The book is easy to read and keeps the reader engrossed.
Fine writing and difficult to put down the book. The book is easy to read and keeps the reader engrossed.
December 10, 2013
Metza-Matza, take it or leave it, your choice.
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