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Just In Time.
Just In All new. Totally revamped for 2021. As ever with Harry's books, an amiable thriller, starting amid the Canal du Midi Villages basking in the sun of Southwest France. Sven, Joel, Melody & Squeeze race to find out more about a 'probable' modern kidnapping & deal with the world's biggest bullion robbery. The search takes us from those canal side villages to Taiwan, via Germany, Portugal & France to The Badlands of Western Sahara. Will it end back in France with a celebratory Cassoulet or Catastrophe. The perfect update for fans of Rick Steins French Odysee TV series or the enduringly popular books of Peter Mayle.
255 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2016
About the author
Harry Buckle
10 books148 followersAuthor Harry Buckle says:" Someone, likely in a moment of over enthusiasm,
described my first thriller 'Just in Time' as being 'Peter Mayle meets Ian Fleming.' Given that it was following lunch with James Bond author Fleming that he got me my first
job as a journalist, whilst I wouldn't dare even dream to get near Fleming's concise thrilling skill, it was a very kind review. Having said that, given what happened to me later in my career path makes
me wonder if he, Fleming, made any further recommendations to other contacts of his."
'Sometimes Music is My Only Friend. The Accidental Spy.' Harry's very funny
but true story of his life prior to becoming an author, follows him from those journalistic
years as one of the '60's most read pop guru's, to starting his own music company, and
somewhat to his surprise, bringing the world a hundred or so hit records.
"You'd think being a music journalist was safe enough, but I hadn't really expected the
US Airforce to drop four H Bombs on me. Real ones, plutonium everywhere."
Then he found himself accidently and very reluctantly working with both the British
(MI6) and Russian (KGB) Secret Services, and interrogated in Moscow about what he had
been doing at No. 10 Downing Street. "It seems to us you are seeking to destabilise your
rulers with naked pictures of your then UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson. No ?"
"Having the hits, confirmed the old music industry adage, 'Happy to be Part of the
Industry of Human Happiness', with many of those worldwide hits coming from Depeche
Mode, Yazoo, Alison Moyet, Erasure and others - but discovering I was apparently working
with the Mafia was a bit of a reality check".
With some fine (and funny ) recollections of life as it then developed. The book title,
'Sometimes Music is My Only Friend', now often seems to sum up the feelings of more than
just the sixties generation.
Harry: "With 'Just In Time' indeed I do hope fans of those Peter Mayle books or Rick Stein's 'French Odyssey' TV series will enjoy the soft start to this story set in the sun-
drenched canal side villages and vineyards of South West France."
This easy read and somewhat laconic thriller gathers pace with a simple family threat
to halt all global shipping, with its 'Just in Time' freight so vital to our daily lives - our
survival even. The story moves onto the USA, New Zealand, Singapore, Shanghai, and to the
Badlands of Western Sahara just south of Morocco. Will it end in catastrophe or back in
South Western France with a celebratory cassoulet?
Harry lives in Cornwall for much of the year and - 'funds permitting', seeks 'spicy foods
and some sunshine on the old bones' for the rest of the time .
Coming soon : 'Just In Case.'Suicide no Longer Required.' :By Harry Buckle.
The British nation deploys it's finest military and scientific minds to diverting death
and destruction from our city streets which are under threat and attack from the new breed
of urban troublemaker or terrorist, and enlists a helpful solution from 'Down on the Farm.'
described my first thriller 'Just in Time' as being 'Peter Mayle meets Ian Fleming.' Given that it was following lunch with James Bond author Fleming that he got me my first
job as a journalist, whilst I wouldn't dare even dream to get near Fleming's concise thrilling skill, it was a very kind review. Having said that, given what happened to me later in my career path makes
me wonder if he, Fleming, made any further recommendations to other contacts of his."
'Sometimes Music is My Only Friend. The Accidental Spy.' Harry's very funny
but true story of his life prior to becoming an author, follows him from those journalistic
years as one of the '60's most read pop guru's, to starting his own music company, and
somewhat to his surprise, bringing the world a hundred or so hit records.
"You'd think being a music journalist was safe enough, but I hadn't really expected the
US Airforce to drop four H Bombs on me. Real ones, plutonium everywhere."
Then he found himself accidently and very reluctantly working with both the British
(MI6) and Russian (KGB) Secret Services, and interrogated in Moscow about what he had
been doing at No. 10 Downing Street. "It seems to us you are seeking to destabilise your
rulers with naked pictures of your then UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson. No ?"
"Having the hits, confirmed the old music industry adage, 'Happy to be Part of the
Industry of Human Happiness', with many of those worldwide hits coming from Depeche
Mode, Yazoo, Alison Moyet, Erasure and others - but discovering I was apparently working
with the Mafia was a bit of a reality check".
With some fine (and funny ) recollections of life as it then developed. The book title,
'Sometimes Music is My Only Friend', now often seems to sum up the feelings of more than
just the sixties generation.
Harry: "With 'Just In Time' indeed I do hope fans of those Peter Mayle books or Rick Stein's 'French Odyssey' TV series will enjoy the soft start to this story set in the sun-
drenched canal side villages and vineyards of South West France."
This easy read and somewhat laconic thriller gathers pace with a simple family threat
to halt all global shipping, with its 'Just in Time' freight so vital to our daily lives - our
survival even. The story moves onto the USA, New Zealand, Singapore, Shanghai, and to the
Badlands of Western Sahara just south of Morocco. Will it end in catastrophe or back in
South Western France with a celebratory cassoulet?
Harry lives in Cornwall for much of the year and - 'funds permitting', seeks 'spicy foods
and some sunshine on the old bones' for the rest of the time .
Coming soon : 'Just In Case.'Suicide no Longer Required.' :By Harry Buckle.
The British nation deploys it's finest military and scientific minds to diverting death
and destruction from our city streets which are under threat and attack from the new breed
of urban troublemaker or terrorist, and enlists a helpful solution from 'Down on the Farm.'
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January 6, 2018
see review for hard copy. An engaging, thriller genre involving global crisis in world shipping, centred on transportation and distribution of major consumer goods, namely fresh foods.
It would seem the author has a clear knowledge of international politics, finance and various international cultures.
The book is a first thriller novel for a former journalist and entrepreneur.
There is the major plot, involving sabotage of food distribution networks and the sub-plots regarding families, friends and pleasant descriptions of holiday homes, foods, feasts and cultural integrations between internationally schooled young people and the risk they run being the children of wealthy entrepreneurs.
Altogether a modern thriller without gore and degradation. LIfted by its awareness of everyday life of politics and the personal.
The author has a number of works on the stocks, apparently, drawing upon his own varied and interesting background. Looking forward to those as pleasures providing a break from the modern vogue of incessant degradation and deprivations without which many writers seem to feel they will not survive. If there is a fault at all, I found some sections of dialogue a tad over-written. However, experience will produce tighter text. All in all a definite plus.
Thankyou Harry Buckle
It would seem the author has a clear knowledge of international politics, finance and various international cultures.
The book is a first thriller novel for a former journalist and entrepreneur.
There is the major plot, involving sabotage of food distribution networks and the sub-plots regarding families, friends and pleasant descriptions of holiday homes, foods, feasts and cultural integrations between internationally schooled young people and the risk they run being the children of wealthy entrepreneurs.
Altogether a modern thriller without gore and degradation. LIfted by its awareness of everyday life of politics and the personal.
The author has a number of works on the stocks, apparently, drawing upon his own varied and interesting background. Looking forward to those as pleasures providing a break from the modern vogue of incessant degradation and deprivations without which many writers seem to feel they will not survive. If there is a fault at all, I found some sections of dialogue a tad over-written. However, experience will produce tighter text. All in all a definite plus.
Thankyou Harry Buckle
Displaying 1 of 1 review