A Young Man's Game
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As he learns more about Viola’s life as a drug addict and high-class call girl, he starts to realise that his wealthy client has been economical with the truth.
It isn’t long before Beckett himself is in danger, but his adversaries quickly discover that they are dealing with a formidable opponent with a far more sinister background than they might ever have imagined.
Crisis Point by James Kemp
Why is rolling news showing footage of US Marines holding off an armed assault on the White House? Where have the Secret Service taken the President and why has the Vice President invoked the 25th Amendment? Why has US Space Command mobilised its strategic reserve and put it into orbit?
Crisis point is a stand alone novella set in the same near future world as Perfects (published late 2016).
It tells the story of a military conspiracy reaching to the top of the US Military to subvert the democratically elected US President.
This is a future where some Americans have realized that spending their blood and treasure as the world’s policemen hasn’t been effective and have decided that someone else should take a turn.
In the middle of the 21st Century Mike Duff is a career officer of US Space Force. The military are getting cut, and the defense contractors aren’t happy about it.
Mike is a patriotic American, loyal to the Constitution and proud of his country, but he doesn’t like what he sees the politicians doing.
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First published in 2018
2nd Edition, 2019
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© Paul Blake, 2019
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ISBN: 9781077436657
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