THE LAST OF MANKIND
Humankind now numbers a mere nine million. The adults survive in eight underground cities, protected by barriers – it used to be thirteen, but five perished when the moon was rent in two. Their offspring lives on a vast space station, which sits in a geostationary equatorial orbit around a world riddled with creatures from the darkest parts of the imagination. The cities barriers are failing. Also, the Station is slowly being pulled down by the earth’s gravity – it was not designed to hold so many, for so long.
PART ONE: THE LAST HOPE
A small group of six holds all of mankind’s hope in their hands as they head towards the largest rip to try to close it down. A father withholds secrets, possibly sending his sons to their death – secrets that if they seep out will cause total panic in all eight remaining cities. The head of the Council of Cities knows what is coming, what’s heading their way; she sits and looks at aerial photos of the advancing armies that are closing in. The decision she makes will affect millions. The commander in charge of the orbiting space station awaits the yearly rocket with the children onboard. However, something is wrong with the data files, the numbers just don’t add up. With only one day to go, things start to take a deadly turn. Is there a traitor onboard their last hope for humanity?
Time is one luxury mankind doesn’t have; however, time is what they need the most. Unless a miracle happens, within the next broken lunar cycle, humankind will become extinct.
LAMBCHOPS AND CHAINSAWS (Vol. 1)
UK USA
Lamb Chops and Chainsaws is the first volume in the Human Nature Series.
(Warning: The author would like to point out that this book contains graphic language and descriptions of explicit sex and brutal violence).
What are your neighbours really like once their front door slams shut? Are your children's teachers' sound-of-mind? Has your partner got an evil, sinister side? Is a member of your family a murderer? These questions, and more, are examined in a collection of nine disturbing short stories; tales about the darker side of human nature.
Read about a wannabe serial killer who starts his reign of terror on the wrong footing. A Kindergarten teacher who has deep psychological problems that jeopardizes the safety of the children. Why a child of nine turns to violence in retaliation for drug smugglers slaughtering her parents. A fanatical mother who believes her thirteen-year-old son is possessed by the devil. How one killer spirals out of control and in his haste for victims makes a fatal mistake. A government trained killer who was set up as a scapegoat. Or a serial killer who has captured the attention of the world, and has set up one final, sickening display. What does it take to push someone that little bit too far and turn them into a killer? Find out when a savage murder is committed over a packet of lamb chops.
Strangers will never seem the same again.
CONTENTS
1. Sod's Law
The story of a wannabe serial killer who's not to clever when it comes to picking his victims.
2. The Last Straw
A seventy-three-year-old man is pushed too far, after fifty years of constant nagging. What's the final straw? An argument about dinner; to have chicken or lamb chops.
3. The Lord is My Shepherd
A mother's fanatical love of God has twisted her perception of her son; in her mind, her unruly thirteen-year-old is possessed by the devil.
4. Shattered Childhood
A child's life in Mexico changes forever when drug smugglers kill her parents. To retaliate, she does something incomprehensible, even though she's only nine.
5. No Conscience
A young man is deprived of his mother and sister. When he finds out why it drives him to become a murderer. Now without a conscience he sells his killing gift to the highest bidder.
6. Dirty Little Animals
What happens when a kindergarten teacher has reached the end of her tether, and children are her second-worst nightmare, right after her father?
7. The Red Mist-ake
He looks normal, but his desires are twisted and bloody, needing to kill when the hunger arises. However, he soon realizes that he can no longer control his inner beast when he wakes from his latest killing spree.
8. Like a Son
A man the government trained as a killer is used as a scapegoat. He goes on the run, until someone unexpected from his past catches up with him.
9. The A-list
A serial killer has captured the attention of the world. He has set up one final, sickening display. He plans to let the world know his twisted reasoning.
LOBSTERS AND LANDMINES (Vol. 2)
UK USA
Lobsters and Landmines is the second book in the Human Nature Series, following in Lamb Chops and Chainsaws footsteps, by continuing to look at the darker side of human nature, by delving into the dark twisted world of the sick minded, the perverse, the psychos and sociopaths; people who take pleasure from hurting others. Individuals, who could be your next-door neighbour or your lover, even a close family member.
Read about a captain who discovers the perfect lobster bait after a violent outburst. A HIV infected man who injects women with his tainted blood. A disfigured ex-army bomb disposal expert who has carved out a piece of paradise for himself in Vietnam, who keeps females as slaves and children as objects to sell. Or the sad story about two friends who are forever parted on September 11th 2001. And the airhostess Jenny who finds the perfect job on a Brazilian airline, but it seems they want more from her than most employers. What about the sweet little old lady who wins awards for her cakes, but what are her secret ingredients? Or the doomsday prepper that spends every waking minute of everyday prepping for the end of the world, until one critical mistake changes everything. Or a computer firm that sells its algorithmic computations to cosmetic firms, cutting out the need to test on animals, but below ground, the vast computer server hosts a disturbing secret. Finally, a businessman who realizes a little too late, what is truly important in life?
CONTENTS
1. Lobster Theodore
After a violent outburst, Jim’s life will be forever changed. However, every cloud has a silver lining when the captain discovers the perfect lobster bait.
2. Little Prick
A HIV infected man injects women with his tainted blood. One victim gets the ultimate revenge.
3. Man’s Best Friend
A disfigured ex-army bomb disposal expert has carved out a piece of paradise for himself in Vietnam. He collects women as slaves to live on his farm, and children to be used by his American clients who fly over once a year. Today is the day they arrive, but not everything goes according to plan.
4. Towers of Tears
On September 11th 2001, two friends are forever separated.
5. Fit for the Job
Jenny’s medical check-up clears her for a job as an airhostess for a small Brazilian airline. However, it seems they want just a little more than most employers do.
6. The Last Cake
Grace has won every baking competition she has ever entered. She has just one cake left to make before she hangs up her oven-glove. But what are her secret ingredients?
7. Lockdown
A doomsday prepper has everything he needs to survive any end of day’s scenario. His underground bunker is all prepped and ready. However, in his haste to survive he has made one critical, life-changing mistake.
8. Nosey Parker
A computer firm is raking in hundreds of millions by selling their latest algorithmic computations to cosmetic firms, cutting out the need to test on animals. However, below ground, one section of the vast computer server hosts a disturbing secret.
9. Regrets
A businessman is taking a flight he has flown hundreds of times before. At home, he leaves an unfinished argument with his wife. However, the flight does not go according to plan, and he realizes what the most important things in life really are.
FRENCH FRIES AND FLAMETHROWERS (Vol. 3)
UK USA
In an old apartment building, a group of people go about their night like any other. However, tonight is different, tonight all their lives intertwines. A night, when against all the odds, a series of events unfolds, culminating in a bloodbath.
It’s a story of love, madness, sexual perversity, stalking, murder, greed, abuse, voyaging, and betrayal. Also, other, outsider’s blood, stains the floors and walls; the Ukrainian mob, the French special forces, and the local police – it’s a complete massacre.
Follow the complicated life-and-death dance. Read as they die one by one, causing a chain reaction that results in the building burning to the ground.
One building. Nine apartments. Nine intertwined stories. Twenty-nine dead, three missing, and only one survivor.
CONTENTS
1. The Insomniac
Trevor Olsen owns a chip shop, and works every hour sent to keep his business afloat. He struggles to stay awake to keep up with Friday night’s drunken clientele. Due to his exhausted state, as he’s locking up for the night, he makes a fatal error that leaves a dead body on his kitchen floor. He tries to dispose of the body, but in the process, a misunderstanding makes a bad situation much worse.
2. The Taxidermist
Fredric Nolan has found a niche in the taxidermist market; small rodents posed in silly stances dressed as humans. He ups the ante, deciding to experiment with cats. Luckily, a neighbour has an abundance of them. He steals one, hoping to practice. However, things don’t go according to plan.
3. The Butcher
Anton Gruzinsky is a Russian, who owns a butcher’s shop. He uses the carcasses of animals to transport drugs around southern England for a Ukrainian gang. When he’s asked to help out in their human trafficking ring, he declines. However, his boss isn’t the kind of man you simply say no to.
4. The Florist
Elena Fisk grows orchids for a living; she devotes her life to cultivating the delicate flowers. In her attempt to duplicate the perfect environment, she builds a complicated watering system. On the spur of the moment, she buys a new plant food to test the system out – Mephedrone, or otherwise known as Meow Meow.
5. The Lovers
Nalin Nhek is a shy, quiet Cambodian who moved to England to work so she can send money home to her family. She falls in love with Isaac Tiggs, a police officer, and their lives seem perfect. However, one random event changes everything.
6. The Animal Lover
Gertrude Dodd is housebound, having grown too fat to leave her apartment. Her three dogs, thirteen cats, a parrot, and a collection of rodents keeps her company, which she prefers to humans – to her; they are loyal and trustworthy. However, none of them can come to her aid when she needs help the most.
7. The Agoraphobic
Gordon Welts hasn’t left his building in four years. As well as renting out the flats, he makes his money by selling the videos he makes with all his hidden cameras on his specialty website. That is, until one person discovers his secret and puts an end to his little money-making adventure.
8. The Foreigner
Samira Hussaini is an Afghanistan immigrant. She is quiet and polite and works as a cleaner. Or is she? Sometimes things are never as they seem.
9. The Geek
Benedict Kock is a thirteen-year-old who if left home alone every night, while his mother struggles to pay the bills. Ben is bullied relentlessly at school. However, his school project is finally finished; something that will make everyone realise that he’s not just a weakling loser.
THE WATCHERS
UK USA
In Europe in the 1350s seventy-five million human souls perished from the Spanish Influenza. Worldwide in the 1920s one hundred million died from the Black Death. Yearly, almost half a million die due to new strains of viruses and plagues.
Or do they?
A SHOCKING SECRET
Jacob Cain’s life changes forever when he starts to receive a series of reanimated corpses, each impart a fragment of a message. An ancient tale unfolds as old as time itself relating humanities darkest untold secret – the biblical story from the Devil’s point of view.
A DESPERATE QUEST
As the chain of events unfolds Cain repeatedly finds himself confused and covered in blood. Suddenly he becomes a fugitive from the authorities, wanted in connection to multiple murders, his garden now a mass grave.
A HORRIFYING TWIST
Guided by one catastrophic event after another, Cain finds whole villages eerily silent with corpses littering the streets as a new plague from an unimaginable source starts to sweep the country. At an old farmhouse he comes face-to-face with mankind’s worst nightmare. And buried in a field is the answer to all the riddles that climax in a terrifying, unearthly twist.
As Cain fights for his life he must unravel the shocking truth, before billions die. He is all that stands in the way of a global pandemic on an apocalyptical scale.
* * *
Then God said: “Where do you come from?” At that Satan answered God and said: “From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it.”
THE GATEWAY
World One of the Seven Worlds
UK USA
The Gateway is the first instalment in an epic seven-book dark fantasy adventure.
Book 1: The Gateway.
Book 2: The Keystone.
Book 3: Elven Jewel.
Book 4: The Sleeping Gods.
Book 5: The Turquoise Abyss.
Book 6: Oceans of Fire.
Book 7: Journeys End.
THE SEVEN WORLDS
Eons ago entities with god-like powers brought together seven worlds, joined them by means of conduits—Gateways—each supplying the next with what it lacked, from a surplus of what that world produced, making life on all seven worlds possible. Then they disappeared. Each world became an individual.
THE BROTHERS
Two brothers stumble on the Gateway passing from our world to the next, and are endowed with powers beyond comprehension, vital for survival in this hostile and intelligent world where nightmarish creatures feed on the weak.
THE WAR
Titanic battles rage; good against evil, magic against machinery, mortal against immortal. A civil war rages between spirit creatures and a powerful self-proclaimed God. Why is the American government sending an army of mass destruction with the latest military technology through? Time is short, the armies are amassing.
And what is the prophecy about scratched on a wall of a prison cell by dying hands?
THE KEYSTONE
World Two of the Seven Worlds
UK USA
The Keystone is the second instalment in an epic seven-book dark fantasy adventure.
WORLD TWO
It is a world of Gods, untamed magic, sorcerers, dragons, vast desert plains, dry valleys and deep ravines, populated by humans and dwarves.
THE DARK ARMY
A long-dormant kingdom has awoken, sending out dark armies of inhuman beasts, controlled by a Black Keystone of ancient legends. The two races have to join together as in times long past, but strong prejudice and hatred now separates them.
THE ALLIANCE
The two brothers find themselves between raging battles and join forces with an unlikely alliance of dwarves and humans, sent on a mission to find the mystical Red Keystone, their only means for survival; traveling beyond an immense wall that is protected by symbols that are the answer to an ancient riddle.
THE TRUE DRAGONS
But beyond the wall are creatures even more vile, ancient and powerful that have to stay contained at all costs, for the sake of all seven worlds.
And who is the strange bedraggled old man with his pet dragon?
LIVING THE DREAM
The Story of Two Brothers Journey in the Exotic East – With 102 Colour Photos
Part One – Khaosan Road, Thailand
UK USA
The author Glen Johnson decides to give into his midlife crisis (he's only forty-one – it hit early) and
he gives away all his worldly possessions and embarks on a journey of a lifetime – to see as much of the world as humanly possible, before he's buried six feet under it.
With no fixed address, and all his material property fitting snugly, and heavily, upon his back (in a very impressive backpack) Glen leaves his country of England behind to follow his dreams. Living on royalties from his books, and having just signed an eight book deal with a large American publisher, he heads to the sprawling city of Bangkok, and the infamous Khasoan Road – a place he is utterly unfamiliar with and doesn't speak a single word of the language. All the while, he has over a million words to write to fulfill his contracts, and he has other deadlines to meet, while trying not to die in a tuk tuk, or choke on a ping-pong.
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