Puppeteers and Provocateurs    

                              (ISBN 978-1921456-53-4)                                                  
      
                               Genre: Fiction/General




In recent decades, there has been much emphasis placed on the rights of individuals, yet there are still over 200 million people in the World - representating 60 stateless nations - who are poor, marginalised and denied basic human rights under International Law. They are unable to choose their own social, political or cultural futures, and are either confined within First, Second or Third World countries. 
They are the people of the Fourth World.

Researching information concerning the misuse of human aid to a Fourth World country, a freelance journalist dies in New York under suspicious circumstances after discovering secret plans for the illegal supply of military weapons.

When Alistair Allobrogicus - the Manx Deemster - becomes involved and delves into the mire of murky military and political subterfuge, more disturbing facts emerge that point to the existence of secret shadow governments controlled by a cartel of covert puppeteers and provocateurs.

Puppeteers and Provocateurs completes the Alistair Allobrogicus trilogy, which began with The Manx Deemster and continued with The Matroska Effect.

 


       
         The Matroska Effect                     
        
                 (ISBN 978-1-921456-24-4)
        
                    Genre: Fiction / Crime



Whilst Globalisation might provide conditional business opportunities for some, it has also     given unrighteous providence to an elite group of transnational corporations to control a country’s economic, financial and political interests by skilfully manipulating nations through a co-ordinated smokescreen network of companies-within-companies.

   This Matroska Effect has an adverse influence on the lives of many throughout the world, and its mechanism often generates corruption and financial fraud within corporations and governments – ignoring the citizens’ plight of social injustice.

  While investigating the Razkom Corporation, Alistair Allobrogicus - The Manx Deemster - uncovers a powerful, international clandestine organisation controlled by a nefarious group of egocentric white-collar criminals who eliminate anyone who opposes their plans.

  Although fictional, The Matroska Effect was inspired by actual criminal events and illicit acts, many of which are still occurring within our societies today. The Matroska Effect is a sequel to The Manx Deemster.

 
 The Manx Deemster                                                                                                
      
   (ISBN 978-1-921456-01-5)
              
       Genre: Fiction / Crime              


The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Secretariat estimated that 60% of the world’s wealth was held in off-shore shell companies and some were being used in sophisticated money-laundering networks.

    An international information bureau was established to track millions of unseen untouchable funds as they streamed through a constantly shifting, twisting, turning web of electronic media.

    To fight this financial fraud, a corporate lawyer joins forces with a mysterious man from the Isle of Man called The Manx Deemster, who is head of the Caine League – a unique group of altruists.

    - A fictional story of the unconventional detection methods undertaken to uncover the identities of the criminals and their illegal activities hidden behind a veil of criminal deceit.   

                                        

               Roisin                                 

         (ISBN 978-1920764-88-3)

        Genre: Historical Fiction 




Roisin (Rose) although fictional, was inspired by actual events. It’s the story of an ordinary Australian-born woman of Irish descent with a unique character who showed others by her positive determination and entrepreneurial flair how to live their dream and become extraordinary.

    It is a spirited woman’s adventure that begins in the era of the Great Depression, through the torment of WW11 to the postwar economic boom years and into the swinging 1970s.

    During decades of daring, her quest was often challenged by the established norms of the day, when society measured success or failure by the gender of an individual.

    By her twentieth year, Roisin had a dream and a unquenchable desire to become a dress-designer, and not just designing the normally acceptable designs of her era, but to create and introduce a completely new unique concept that would alter the way people saw themselves.

  -  Apart from the dramatic aspects of the story, students will find the descriptions of the ever-changing styles of the Australian and British rag-trade very interesting.  Readers should gain an enlightening insight of the clothing industry from the design stage through the manufacturing processes to the finished garment