Orphaned at eighteen, a naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income. He is posted to Stoke Newington police station in London’s tough East End. Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced instructor, WPC Dawn Matthews, puppy walks him through a journey, which is regularly amusing, frequently sad and occasionally bizarre. You will not read a more accurate account of how London was poli...

ThIs is a mystery suspense novel where ’fact’ and ’fiction’ have been combined into a believable story similar in vein to those made popular by such established authors as Michael ‘Jurassic Park’ Crichton, Tom ‘The Hunt for Red October’ Clancy or Frederick ‘Day of the Jackal’ Forsyth. In it Author R Julian Cox weaves his knowledge of the ecology and cutting-edge science together with religious faith and ancient British history. The result is a gripping and multi layered stor...

Tombstone was fast becoming one hell of a mess when Bat Masterson and the Earps asked their old pal Sam "Cemetery" Jones to lend a hand. There was a man a day getting killed, the notorious Clanton gang raising hell, Apaches on the warpath and a legendary outlaw called Ringo looking to put Cemetery Jones six feet under.But Cemetery wasn't one to refuse his friends, even if it meant going up against six-shooters, raiding Indians, and a cold-blooded killer out gunning for him. It was a...

He's Sam to his friends.Cemetery Jones to his unlucky enemies.Lucky for Jones he was born suspicious. And dead quick with a gun.Sunrise is a frontier town, just beginning to stretch. Till outlaws vow to take out the whole damn place to revenge themselves on the new marshal, name of Cemetery Jones.The numbers are against him.But Jones has his gun. And the graveyard has plenty of vacancies.

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the U.S. Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with...

Who hurt Doll Lansing so bad?Tim Farr didn't know.Who banged Doll's head around so that her whiskey-blurred eyes could no longer see which men were doing what to her hot, voluptuous body?Everybody in Asienta, maybe. Producers, actors, tennis pros, even realtors and judges.Until Doll lay like a broken puppet at the base of a cliff, the wheel of justice spun crazily, and the pointer reached Tim Farr.Sure, everybody in the smoldering Hollywood suburb had had...

In an ancient time of magic and dragons, Sam leads a small group of teenagers that have been brought together by fate. They must first fight for their own freedom. They learn to trust one another as they are sent on a mission for a god, an epic quest of its own. They must travel over land and sea and across the front lines of a war to fulfill their quest. Sam and his friends meet many on their journey; some who help them and others who seek their lives, and still others who need their help...

This time Sam—aptly known as "Cemetery"—Jones isn't the target. The bushwhacker who's taken a shot at Renee Hart, the woman bound to Sam, makes a run for the small but dangerous town dominated by one Cyrus Dunstan. That he'd harbor a killer who went after a woman is something for Sam to think hard about. But when Sam catches up with his quarry, he faces a whole army of folks for whom the death of Cemetery Jones means their ticket to glory.

Cemetery Jones wears notches on his soul the way others wear them on the butts of their guns. He's about to add one more when an old friend enlists him in a desperate range war against a thieving, murdering rancher. Joining him is the mysterious Maverick Kid, riding hard and hot on a secret vendetta.The Kid turns out to be a hell of a help in a knock-down, drag-out battle of bullets!

When Johnny Bracket reined into Field City, he had twenty-one steers, his bay horse, his gun, and a run of bad luck behind him. He liked the look of the town and, even better, he liked the land deal Morg Field offered him. What he didn't like was the fear he saw in the faces of the townsfolk and the ruthless greed he began to see in the man who owned them.

A novel about the Thirties—about a big town and hard times, about love and hate, violence and corruption, and about six people who made a game out of life. The gangsters, the floozies, money and sex. All caught up in a drama that can only spiral out of the control.

Lila Lee Sharp was a seller of sex and as far as Jack Ware was concerned, she'd sold his best friend short. But Ted Colyer was beyond caring about whether he'd been the victim of a hard sell—he was stretched out on a slab in the morgue with a hole in his chest the size of a picture window.Lila was the key to the murder puzzle, except that her lush body and hot, knowing eyes kept Ware from fitting the pieces together. He could think of nothing else but the fact he had to have her. An...