Best Left Buried
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1986: In the jungles of Nicaragua, a tiny village is the target of a deadly attack by US-backed Contra forces.
2022: Matt Latham flies to Dallas to ghostwrite the memoir of his friend, ambassador Bryant Callahan – on track to become Texas’ next US Senator. But he soon begins to mistrust the man he once revered. Latham’s research uncovers long-hidden connections between Callahan and the CIA; and, just as worryingly, the dysfunctional relationship between the powerful diplomat and his wife Aleja, a former Miss Cuba, 23 years his junior, is impossible to ignore. An orphan, adopted as a child, Aleja consoles herself with dreams of finding her birth family. Now, she makes a desperate plea for Latham’s help in tracing her origins. He agrees to travel to Havana on her behalf, unaware that his search for answers will unlock a Pandora’s box of politically sensitive secrets – and raise a ghost from his own past. Before long, Latham is on the run for his life. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, Luis Escobedo prepares to travel to America. A name in the news has triggered a memory – and with it a thirst for revenge. What did Latham discover at the Cuban orphanage? Why is a foreign intelligence service intent on keeping it a secret? Who is Luis Escobedo? And is any of this related to events in Nicaragua decades ago? In this edge-of-your-seat political thriller, Matt Latham finds himself navigating a labyrinth of tragic events. Ultimately, he must confront the morality of his own choices and ask himself the question: are some secrets best left buried? |
Shadow Lives
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Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019: Ongoing clashes between Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian activists make this city a deadly destination. However, Matt Latham – Australian foreign correspondent and reluctant spy for ASIS (Australia’s secret service) – isn’t too picky with the work he accepts, as long as the money is right. When offered a lucrative assignment to interview a reclusive Russian billionaire in Kharkiv, he jumps at the chance. But an explosion at the club where they were to meet leaves Matt hospitalised and his interpreter, Katya Fomina, dead.
Was it just another random act of violence in this strife-torn region? Released from hospital, Latham travels to Katya’s Ukrainian village to meet her parents and pay his last respects. There, he learns of his interpreter’s fruitless search for her missing younger sister, Nadiya, and discovers that Katya led a double life. Picking up the threads of Katya’s investigation, Latham becomes a man on a mission. And his search for Nadiya will propel him across Europe and ever deeper into a murky world of double agents, illegal arms shipments, drug running and human tra cking. Shadow Lives tells a tale of loss, betrayal and revenge. Of a flawed man’s attempt to help a broken family and, in the process, set a small corner of the world to rights ... Will it also help him break free of the shadows shrouding his own life? |
Something for Bebe
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During Maddy Holt’s senior year in high school she interns for veteran journalist, Elliot Kruger. The unlikely duo forge a close bond; however, after the death of his wife Bebe, Elliot abruptly disappears. Distraught and searching for answers, Maddy stumbles upon clippings detailing Elliot’s years as a wartime correspondent, threatening notes he’s penned, and a cryptic list of names; the first of which died mysteriously days earlier. Convinced he’s embarked on a killing spree, Maddy jets off to Italy. Arriving in Trieste she is met by Grant Stanhope (a family friend), but not in time to prevent another murder. Using Elliot’s notes as a guide, Maddy and Grant race across the Balkan states to Belgrade. But powerful forces are at play, and they are forced to flee Serbia in the dead of night. Frightened, and not knowing where to turn, they head to the only place they can hope to find answers; a bucolic Bosnian village - Bebe’s hometown. There, they discover the shocking secrets behind the men Elliot is pursuing - and the assumed identity of the final man on his list.
And in a deadly race against time to stop history repeating. *** suitable for young adults |
Turn A Blind Eye
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When Craig Walters discovers his widowed-Mother is dying, he puts his dreams on hold and accepts a position at a small private bank in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. For Craig, the steady income offers a chance to regroup. However, his indoctrination into the banking world quickly deteriorates when believing he’s stumbled upon an elaborate fraud scheme. His covert digging into the bank’s files for confirmation promptly sets off alarm bells that reverberate around the globe and unwittingly lays bare a more in-depth, sinister plot.
Linking Melbourne with modern-day Irish politics, and the unlimited power and reach of the Vatican; an intricate web of corruption and unbridled greed is spun that entwines all that come in contact. And whether to Turn a Blind Eye becomes a matter of life and death. |
Closure
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A moving, coming of age, tale that follows three young boys through adolescence into adulthood, each trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.
Poland (1939) The German army sweeps across Poland intent on the destruction of an entire people. In a small Polish town, 10-year-old Piotr Kowalczyk's idyllic world will be forever destroyed. Croatia (1944) As the communist-led Partisans move ever closer to Zagreb a young Croatian conscript flees to the West. Australia (1980) A small boy, struggling to cope with the loss of a parent, is confronted by a gruesome murder. From the tranquil foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in southern Poland, to the Balkans and a simmering centuries-old feud, to the streets of inner-city Melbourne where histories collide. These events, generations and worlds apart, are interwoven in a poignant story of grief, hatred, revenge and finally - Closure. |
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