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 technolog
y 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.
Part One follows him as he unclutters his life, while physically and mentally preparing to leave behind his family and friends, and everything he has ever known to travel and eat his way across Asia. It also covers the first two weeks of his journey following his antics on the infamous ‘Backpackers Ghetto’ Khasoan Road, and how he deals with the change of culture and scenery.
Luckily, there is a silver lining, he has convinced (with promises of untold riches, exotic delicacies, scantly clad females on deserted beaches, and the fact he's paying for everything) his older brother Gary to join him on the journey – so at least he has someone to carry all his stuff, and a supply of warm protein, just in case of an emergency. Gary offers his own form of ‘tactful’ insights as they awkwardly learn the lessons of trying to settle into a new routine in a foreign country.
Glen has previously visited twenty-nine different countries, and lived in Mexico City, Mexico for far too long for a pale skinned European. However, he soon realizes that they are completely and utterly unprepared for what they are about to face.
Glen Johnson's unique sense of humor (and the fact he’s a weirdo magnet) and unusual view of the world makes Living the Dream – Part One: Khasoan Road, Thailand unlike any other travel book you have ever read. Oh, and there might even be some useful tips about the country and culture you will be able to use if you are thinking of traveling to the same locations.
CONTENTS
Prologue – Deciding to Go
1. More About Me
LONDON, ENGLAND
2. Saying Goodbye
3. Flight AI-112 from London, Heathrow to New Delhi, India
4. Bollywood’s Finest
5. Wet Dog and Grumpy Guards
6. Piggyback Fight Anyone?
7. Flight AI-332 from New Delhi to Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
BANGKOK, THAILAND
8. Touchdown
9. Bartering
10. Black Market Organ Harvesters
11. Miss. Thailand in Hotel Paradise.
12. Rutting Season
13. Pushy
14. A Helping Hand
KHASOAN ROAD
15. Backpackers Ghetto
16. A Room with no View
17. Stalker
18. Tattoo, Tigers, and a Scorpion
19. A Very Nice Man
20. The Standing Buddha
21. Routine and Food
22. Wat Bowonniwet Vihara
23. Chasing Our Tails
24. The Smell of Death
25. Time to Move On
26. Gary’s Journal
The Discovery Café Guesthouse
About the Author
Highlights of this edition are:
102 colour photos taken by the author and his brother.
It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your kindle reader.
An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the kindle “go to” feature.
Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.
319 pages in the kindle format.
SOI DOG
The Story Behind Asia’s Largest Animal Welfare Shelter – With 108 Colour Photos
UK USA
PLEASE BE AWARE: By purchasing this book you are helping! All the royalties from the sale of this ebook and paperback go directly to helping the animals at the Soi Dog Foundation. You ARE making a difference!
The Soi Dog Foundation is the largest animal welfare charity in Asia dealing with stray dogs and cats, located in the north of the province of Phuket and in Bangkok. It was co-founded in 2003 by Margot Homburg, a Dutch retiree, and John and Gill Dalley, who retired from England.
Soi Dog helps the homeless, neglected and abused dogs and cats of Thailand. They tirelessly work to end the dog meat trade throughout the region, and respond to animal welfare disasters and emergencies.
Soi Dog runs a shelter and rehoming center for over four hundred dogs (that’s growing daily) that have been abandoned or abused and subjected to sometimes terrible cruelty. Thousands more are treated for injury and disease every year by providing emergency and ongoing veterinary treatment for abused and neglected street dogs and cats. They also feed hundreds of dogs and cats who live in temples and other locations around the province of Phuket. They have also built a shelter in northern Thailand that holds over one and a half thousand dogs that have been rescued from the illegal dog meat trade. They also have a permanent clinic in Bangkok.
This book will give you an overview of the whole organization, and what they are striving to achieve and what they have achieved to date.
You will learn everything there is to know about Soi Dog, and the people who spend their lives helping the neglected dogs and cats of Thailand. People who have suffered immense personal injury in the pursuit of protecting the animals that have no voice, and who need someone to stand up for them.
You will meet the people who make Soi Dog possible, who volunteer their time and energy into the foundation. People who have drastically changed their lives in order to make a difference. You will read their stories and those of the animals that have been saved.
You will get a personal tour of the Soi Dog Foundation, and the day-to-day running of the Phuket facility, by the author Glen Johnson, who also goes out with rescue officers and follows the procedure of catching the stray dogs and returning them to the Soi Dog clinic to be sterilized.
Read the story of those who give their time and energy to save the animals of Thailand.
“Thank you for all the work you do for those who have no voice.”
“You have left paw prints on our hearts.”
Paul & Janet
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Soi Dog Foundation
An Introduction to Soi Dog
John and Gill Dalley’s Story
Personal Tragedy Strikes Gill
The Asian Tsunami Devastates Phuket
The First Soi Dog Shelter
Thailand’s Illegal Dog Meat Trade
The Trade of Shame Programme
Thai and Buddhist Attitudes to Dogs and Cats in General
Why Are There So Many Street Dogs?
New Soi Dog Projects for 2015
A WALKING TOUR OF THE FACILITY
A Tour with Glen Johnson
A Tour of the New Dog Hospital
Out With an Animal Welfare Officer and Gill
Volunteering in Run A4
A HAPPY ENDING – ANIMALS RESCUED
Shiver’s Story
Charmander’s Story
Miracles, A Thai Dog Meat Trade Survivor, Wins Prestigious Crufts Award
Marley’s Story
Dumbo Gets Adopted by Essex (UK) Family
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