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by Leonard Wibberley
ACTION ADVENTURE & HISTORICAL FICTION
JOHN TREEGATE’S MUSKET
The Birth of the Revolutionary War
Now Available on Kindle and New Edition Paperback
Child Study Association Book of the Year Award Winner
An epic historical adventure that takes young readers from The Boston Massacre to the Battle of Bunker Hill…
The year is 1769, and wealthy merchant John Treegate is a solid citizen of Boston, who is loyal to his British King. John has taught his eleven-year-old son Peter to be loyal too, and wanting nothing more than his father’s approval, Peter always does as told.
But when his father is called back to England on business, Peter is left behind and apprenticed to a maker of barrel staves. Alone and feeling abandoned, Peter experiences the hardships of Boston’s working class citizens for the first time.
When Peter is framed for murder and with no father at home to protect him, Peter is forced to flee Boston on a smuggler’s brig, sending him on a series of adventures on the high seas and across the untamed lands of the Carolinas that will challenge everything his father ever taught him to believe about England, America, and the impending Revolutionary War…
"Of all the wars of which I have knowledge, I believe that none was as important for the Western World as the War if the American Revolution. Indeed, I regard it as the most important struggle in the history of Western Man."--Leonard Wibberley
Recommended reading in the Seton Home Study Guide for Grade 8.
John Treegate’s Musket is the first in a seven-book series, which makes a great companion to a study of the Revolutionary War era.
THE TREEGATE BOOK SERIES
Book 1: John Treegate's Musket
Book 2: Peter Treegate's War
Book 3: Sea Captain from Salem
Book 4: Treegate's Raiders
Book 5: Leopard's Prey
Book 6: Manly Treegate Frontiersman
Book 7: The Last Battle
Also available in a 7-book boxed set exclusively on Kindle.
DEADMEN’S CAVE
Now Available on Kindle
17th century pirates, swashbuckling action, and romance...
19-year-old Tom Lincoln is captured by the notorious pirate Henry Morgan and forced into a life of piracy. To escape and rescue another prisoner—the teenage niece of the Governor of Panama—Tom must unlock the secret of a mysterious cutlass he found in a cave filled with dead men on an uncharted island.
★★★★★ “Well-written, fast-paced, historically accurate, with a great story, wonderful characters, and an overall theme and message that lingers. Suitable for all ages. I have recommended it to adults (in their 40s and 50s) and they love it. Even ‘modern’ kids do/will. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”—Goodreads Review
★★★★★ “This was one of my favorite books of childhood—a swashbuckling coming-of-age story with indelible characters. This is a masterful tale, and it is a shame it is not well-known. I highly recommend it.”—Amazon Review
ON CURSED TIDES OF TIME
Now Available on Kindle
When 16-year-old, high school student Nick Orsmby finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to the pirate ship of Captain Roberts—who’s searching for King Solomon’s gold—Nick must figure out how to reverse a curse that’s plagued his family or die on the gallows.
★★★★ “Exciting, vivid, swashbuckling.”—Goodreads Review
THE KING’S BEARD AND THE QUEST FOR THE CITY OF GOLD
Now Available on Kindle
Young John Forrester never knew his father, a man who left his family and his home in England in search of the treasure of El Dorado…and disappeared. But when he receives news that his father is still alive and being held prisoner in Spain, John is thrust on a mission to save him…but he must save England first.
“Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard” was what Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis Drake called the daring and successful English raid on the Spanish fleet in the Bay of Cadiz in 1587.
“Elizabethan Commando.”—The New York Times
“Delightful reading for adults and thrilling fare for teenagers.”—Los Angeles Times
SECRET OF THE HAWK
High Seas. High Adventure.
Now Available on Kindle
In this high-seas, historical adventure, 16-year-old orphan Peter Millet discovers that his wicked guardian, his uncle, had been a slave trader and was involved in the kidnapping of a young English girl.
Peter teams up with an ex-slave, and together they must face mutiny and shipwreck in order to find the girl and return her to her father.
★★★★★ “If you loved Treasure Island and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, then this book is for you!”—Goodreads Review
“Add this to the increasing number of thrillers which match and sometimes excel the thrillers of TV and comic books. The background here is the slave trade days of 18th century England. The boy who tells the gruesome tale sees his miserable home go up in flames, his uncle within stricken with leprosy… it certainly is exciting.”—Louise Bechtel, New York Herald Tribune
“There is plenty of action in this well-told story of the English slave trade... Uncommonly well-written.”—Saturday Review, Books for Young Readers
THE BLACK TIGER BOOK SERIES
Now Available on Kindle
Book 4 in the series in FREE on Kindle for a short time!
Writing under the pen name, Patrick O’Connor, Leonard Wibberley transports the reader back to a golden age of both racing and American life to tell timeless stories of courage and self-respect in the face of fear and failure.
Book 1: The Black Tiger
Book 2: Mexican Road Race
Book 3: Black Tiger at Le Mans
Book 4: Black Tiger at Bonneville
Book 5: Black Tiger at Indianapolis
Book 6: A Car Called Camellia
The acclaimed series is also available in a 6-book boxed set exclusively on Kindle.
“Crackles with the thrill of racing.”—The New York Times
POLITICAL SATIRES
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED SERIES
Now Available on Kindle and New Edition Paperback
In Leonard Wibberley’s classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid – but things don’t go according to plan.
The Mouse That Roared was made into a successful feature film in 1959 starring Peter Sellers.
Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared, but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series.
The Mouse That Roared (Book 1)
The Mouse On The Moon (Book 2)
The Mouse On Wall Street (Book 3)
The Mouse That Saved The West (Book 4)
Beware Of The Mouse (A Grand Fenwick Series Prequel) (Book 5)
A FEAST OF FREEDOM
Now Available on Kindle
A Feast of Freedom is a brilliant spoof of international affairs—an irresistible blend of humor and satire that is as delightful, as timely, and as deliciously cunning as The Mouse That Roared.
While visiting cannibals on a small South Pacific island, the Vice President gets into a stew—literally—causing an international incident that only Leonard Wibberley could concoct.
“Another wildly funny, enormously readable, strangely applicable novel from the pen of a gifted writer.”—Los Angeles Times
ESCAPE FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Now Available on Kindle
Sometimes there are just too many rules, even when you are set to be a ruler someday…
Princess Pamela will one day be Queen of England, but all she really wants is a little freedom.
So she escape
s Buckingham palace, and adventure ensues…
Escape from Buckingham Palace combines Arthurian legend and Leonard Wibberley’s trademark humor to give the reader a wry commentary on government that’s organized, nationalized, impersonalized, bureaucratized, and held together by red tape.
Also published under the title, The Quest of Excalibur.
“Few writers have so luxuriant an imagination as that engaging Irishman, Leonard Wibberley.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Wibberley writes so plausibly about the implausible that the reader willingly even happily suspends disbelief. For all the spoofing, there is an undercurrent of the poetic and a touch of wistfulness for a more humane society.”—Richard Armour, American Poet and Shakespeare Scholar
“Arthurian legend with humor. Everyone is caught up in red tape but ultimately bound together by chivalry.”—Goodreads Review
★★★★★ “This is an Arthurian story by the very funny Leonard Wibberley.”—Amazon Review
TAKE ME TO YOUR PRESIDENT
Now Available on Kindle
After chasing his dog (who was chasing a rabbit), a simple farmer from a small village in England finds himself inexplicably on board a top-secret intergalactic missile.
Before he can sort it out, the farmer finds himself touching down in the United States of America where he is mistaken for a Martian.
And now it's up to him to bring world peace.
“Once again Leonard Wibberley has conjured a unique sort of comedy from a blend of fantasy, blandly satirical spoofing, and sound common sense.”—New York Herald Tribune Book Review
“Leonard Wibberley is one of the few men, in this gloomy age of atom-smashing, guided missiles and horror bombs, who has retained his sense of proportion about life. He is still able to laugh at it and, better still, to persuade others, lots of others, that they may laugh with him without setting off the H-bomb.”—The Los Angeles Times
ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT BOY
Now Available on Kindle
Adventures of an Elephant Boy is another brilliant political satire filled with heart and humor by the author of The Mouse That Roared.
Living in a quiet village on the Ganges River with the freedom to do as he pleases, a simple elephant boy named Hari Ranjit Singh is selected by the Best of All Possible Nations (any resemblance to the U.S.A. being wholly intentional) to be its personal guest. On his way there, Hari learns that in order to have liberty and happiness in the rest of the world, you need lots of laws…lots and lots of laws.
“Some writers have a talent for narrative. Some have a talent for satire. Leonard Wibberley has a talent for both, and is one of the few today who can hold a reader’s interest with characters and story while at the same time satirizing such things as war, politics, taxes, psychiatry and man’s inhumanity to man.”—The Los Angeles Times
“If you enjoy political satire at its best, you must read this book! I read it first as a high school student during the Vietnam era when my friend lent it to me. I had searched for it off and on over the years and finally found it via Amazon. The characterization of political nonsense and power still holds true today. GREAT SATIRE. GREAT BOOK!”—Amazon Review
CHRISTIAN THEMED
THE FATHER BREDDER MYSTERIES by Leonard Holton
Named “A Red Badge Novel of Suspense” alongside Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Hugh Pentecost, The Father Bredder Mysteries, written by Leonard Wibberley under the pen name Leonard Holton, inspired a television show starring George Kennedy.
Father Joseph Bredder was a decorated sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. before becoming a Franciscan priest and amateur detective who both solves crimes and saves souls.
When Father Bredder gets involved with murder—Heaven only knows what will happen next…
NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
The Father Bredder Mysteries, Books 1-3 (Boxed Set)
The Father Bredder Mysteries, Books 4-6 (Boxed Set)
The Father Bredder Mysteries, Books 7-9 (Boxed Set)
AVAILABLE NOW ON KINDLE:
The Saint Maker
Secret of the Doubting Saint
Deliver Us From Wolves
Flowers by Request
A Pact with Satan
Out of the Depths
A Touch of Jonah
A Problem in Angels
The Mirror of Hell
The Devil to Play
A Corner of Paradise
THE CENTURION
A Roman Soldier’s Testament of the Passion of Christ
Available for the first time on Kindle
Each of the first three Gospels calls attention to the Roman centurion—Longinus—who officiated at the Crucifixion, and it is through the life-changing story of this duty-bound soldier that Leonard Wibberley achieves, with a shrewd appreciation of human motives, a thoroughly fresh interpretation of the Gospel story of Christ’s ministry and Passion.
★★★★★ “It is a very moving, delicately constructed novel, with a wonderful feeling for the dawn of Christianity in the Roman world.”—Amazon Reviewer
BODY OF PROOF
The Investigation by Theophilus into the Ressurection of Jesus Christ
Now Available on Kindle
One part Dashiell Hammett, one part Dan Brown…
When Theophilus, a Roman merchant, is tasked by King Herod to find the body of Christ and prove he didn’t rise from the dead, Theophilus goes down a road that will change everything he ever believed in.
“Mr. Wibberley has woven several important and widely neglected truths about nascent Christianity into an absorbing story.”—New York Times Book Review
“In this moving and beautiful novel is a heady mix of religion and philosophy and history. Wibberley the scholar and teacher is at the same time Wibberley the entertainer, and the reader benefits accordingly.”—Grand Rapids Press
THE LAST STAND OF FATHER FELIX
Now Available on Kindle
A cynical, American journalist is tasked with interviewing an elderly priest named Father Felix who refuses to leave his mission, which is caught in the path of opposing armies during the Blemi Civil War in Africa. As Weathers makes his way to the mission, he learns more and more about this stubborn priest. When he finally arrives at the mission, his lack of faith in humanity is challenged.
★★★★★ “There is one conversation between the main character and a spy that makes the book amazing. Even though the book is a quick read it still manages to achieve tones of The Old Man and the Sea. The priest is the main characters desperate and defining catch. Little jewel that aged well.”—Amazon Review
“Leonard Wibberley is one of the most versatile, productive and ingenious fiction writers anywhere around. From The Mouse That Roared, right on through to Father Felix he has demonstrated his skill as a storyteller, a sort of understated Kipling, a pro who can make any plot convincing.”—Newsday
“Leonard Wibberley is one of the most versatile, productive and ingenious fiction writers anywhere around. From The Mouse That Roared, right on through to Father Felix he has demonstrated his skill as a storyteller, a sort of understated Kipling, a pro who can make any plot convincing.”—Newsday
“This is a book guaranteed to make the reader feel good…suspenseful, provocative…uplifting.”—The Philadelphia Bulletin
“The Last Stand of Father Felix is a breathtaking tale…a magnificent story of heroism and horror.”—King Features
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