Tom Barton, a City mortgage broker, decides to quit his business in the wake of the subprime crisis. He arrives in Kovalam, a small tourist resort in the south of India. In the Maharaja Palace Hotel, he finds himself in the company of holidaymakers f...
The Temple of Jerusalem was razed to the ground by the Roman Titus in 73AD, not a single stone was left standing, its sacred treasures stolen and paraded in Rome for the conqueror’s triumph. The city’s people were massacred or carried off into sl...
City bankers : Pat Kennedy, Michael Fitzwilliams, Sergei Tarasov and their friends, Tom Barton and John Francis continue their pursuit of wealth as risk explodes. Thwarted by Vladimir Putin’s dreams of a Greater Russia, they are confronted with fa...
John Francis, a reputed though no longer very young Irish professor of economics, acting as an advisor to a City of London bank, meets a much younger woman in Moscow. Ekaterina Tumanova, an expert in contemporary art at an internationally respected a...
Scott Fitznorman is an international dealer in Asian and Tribal Art with galleries in London and Paris. He and Kate Lundy set off for Borneo in search of valuable ethnic art and the heirlooms of the tribal peoples living in the longhouses in the moun...
A mysterious French nobleman arrives at Ekaterina Tuomonova's gallery in Chelsea, London. He is in search of an expert in early 20th century Post Impressionist art. Olivier de la Salle proposes John and Ekaterina visit his château in Provence, i...
Pat Kennedy, a banker, realises his wealth is meaningless if he has to die. What was the point of being rich if he could not live to enjoy it. Today modern science promised to extend life and he like other rich men sets up a research firm with the ob...
Pat Kennedy fell into a restless sleep as images of Magellan's voyage drifted in and out of his dreams. His 60 million dollar Falcon jet was a galaxy of light years away from the navigator's carrick, the Vittoria, the first ship to complete the circu...
The Fitzwilliams Foundation, a London think tank, engages Michael D'Arcy, the overeducated son of a well-connected Irish diplomat, to gather information for a report on the trafficking of tropical timber from Papua New Guinea's rain forests to China....
Barry Simmonds is a partner in a small-time law firm in Belize, a small not very rich Central American country squeezed between Guatemala and Mexico. His principal business is setting up and servicing offshore companies and bank accounts for British,...
Barry Simmonds, a small-time lawyer in Belize—a former British possession on shores of the Caribbean, discovers a trail that leads to Switzerland as he manages the probate of a recently deceased associate. In the Geneva Freeport, the world's la...
With the euphoria of the American elections past and the world struggling to come to grips with the financial panic that seem about to overwhelm it Pat O'Connelly returns to dublin. The contrast between the city's bleak landscape and the bright skies...
Michael D'Arcy, after the daring escape from his prison in China, is back in Europe relaxing on the beach in the Southwest of France, recovering from his dramatic adventure, investigating the trafficking of rare timber by unscrupulous Chinese busines...
It’s summer 1966 in London. Pat Wolfe, a recently married twenty six year old, is launched on his career in a City of London engineering firm. His conventional life changes when he meets Elsa, a Finnish exchange student. Pat breaks with the con...