Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957369476
1967 USSR Jonas Forbes is hired to protect a guitarist in HAVOK, a rock group booked for concerts in Moscow; but Jonas is also working for MI6. Can he manage both jobs? Can he elude the KGB? As the group travel by coach across Europe he’s also threatened by the STASI and the SB. The Rock World, Cold War and murder feature in this fast-paced thriller.
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2014-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957369468
1954 Kenya Jonas Forbes in the colonial police battles vs. Mau Mau.. Askari Stay-Alive Johnson witnesses a massacre but deserts rather than give evidence. Jonas has to bring him back but the tale isn’t over by a long way, especially when love and jealousy play their parts.
Author : R. Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0993438903
979 England Ethelwulf, Thane of Arne, witnesses the murder of King Edward at Corfe & flees into hiding. He forms an outlaw band (including his cousins, Edwine & Morkere) while his mother raises money for his escape from England . Ethelwulf is denounced as the King’s murderer & hunted by the real killers (led by Haakon Skaathi) acting for Queen Elfrida. The regime tightens its grip as the outlaws battle vs. tragedy to escape the net. With extensive factual End-Notes Part 1 of a nine part series set in the 10th century Viking world. Here the background is an organised kingdom but a coup allows Law and Religion to be twisted by those in power.
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0955871867
1963 UK. The Profumo -Keeler sex-and-espionage scandal crocks the Establishment. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect leading figures but stumbles on to activities which could guarantee future nightmares involving zombies and sewers. A thriller, rich in period detail, which uses evidence from actual legal and police activity
Author : R. Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0993438970
Ethelwulf arrives in Byzantium and become embroiled in the intrigues of the court of Basil II. Unwittingly they upset the schemes of the Eparchos and become reluctantly accepted as the genesis of the Varangian Guard. Whether it’s kidnap by a religious fanatic or attempted murder in the bed-chamber of an imperial princess,, danger stalks the Wanderer. Then a sudden discovery of treasure leads remorselessly to the final virtual destruction of his band. With extensive End-Notes Part 8 of a nine part series set in the 10th century Viking world. Here the background is at he Byzantine Empire in its last days of power where warfare and intrigue vie to destroy the Wanderer and his band
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 095736945X
1966 UK Criminal families hog the headlines. One gang are double-crossed by their corrupt lawyer. In the resulting violence the brother-in-law of Jonas Forbes is nearly killed. Jonas strikes back and is then hunted by both police and gangsters. The contest becomes a matter of family business. – and survival. A fast-moving thriller closely set in its historical background, chiefly in Kent..
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2010-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0955871875
1961 UK. Mao Zedong orders Chinese Intelligence (CID) to penetrate the British Labour Party and CND to produce a split between Britain and its NATO allies. In China a Western spy reveals the plot but then goes on the run. MI5 recruits Jonas Forbes to investigate the threat. Jonas becomes involved one of beautiful Chinese twins – but is she an enemy agent? Triads and the Soviet Embassy play a part before the end is reached. A thriller meticulously exploiting its historical context
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0955871891
1968 California Rumour in London says a UK hit-man has been hired to murder a US Presidential candidate. Jonas Forbes is hired to stop the threat to Bobby Kennedy and finds it now involves a personal score.. A thriller set in both London and San Francisco and focused on the Californian Primary election to decide the Democrat Presidential candidate.
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957369425
London 1959 The Shah of Iran is visiting Britain but somebody aims to kill him. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect him, but from whom? Religious extremists or left-wing revolutionaries or an unknown enemy? His chief Iranian contact is Reza Karimidad: his chief M15 contact is Jack Sharpe. Who is helping and who is not? How does he distinguish truth from lies? A thriller firmly set in the period.
Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957369441
1964 USSR Khrushchev has fallen. Somebody wants a dissident helped to escape from USSR. Jonas Forbes is sent as he's considered 'expendable' Everybody seems to be lying and complications abound with the KGB torn by inner struggles and trouble continues after Jonas escapes from the USSR.
