Dan Coltrane finds himself caught up in a Chinese Communist government effort to purchase large areas of Australian real estate in cities across Australia.The purchases are not illegal, but the method by which they become available is suspect and this is where Coltrane's investigation starts. It soon becomes apparent to Coltrane that Australian politicians at a federal and state level are involved and have been bribed to co-operate with large Chinese conglomerates who are at the bottom of ...

Dan Coltrane fights the United Displaced Persons organisation in Bulgaria that intends to invade Australia's shores. With a fleet of ships departing from the African coast and manned by thousands of immigrants, they are bound for the Western Australian coast via Ashmore Reef, a sand island to the north. Before Coltrane can act to prevent their arrival, an aircraft departing from an Indonesian island and bound for Perth drops a Hydrogen bomb on the city to destroy the population in preparat...

While recovering from injuries sustained from a previous crime case in Melbourne, Dan Coltrane notices that many of the prime business real estate addresses in Perth, and other cities on the east coast are being acquired with capital from the Chinese Government. He decides to investigate and discovers that a consortium from China wants to take over large tracts of city properties at any cost including murder. Coltrane tracks the Australians banking fraternity executives who are also involv...

The pink Kimberley diamond from the mines of Western Australia are the most valuable gemstones in the world. The Diamond industry thrives around Lake Argyle and it attracts all manner of men intent on making their fortune. Graham Biel is one such individual keen to find riches as quickly as he can and he allows nobody or anything to stand in his way. Brian Doyle is of a similar persuasion and he heads north from the city of Perth with his newly met partner Sharon Kidman to take his place i...

Dan Coltrane has been assigned to find out how scammers are taking so much money off Australian business investors and uncovers a vast empire of illicit business dealings primarily involved with the world wide supply of vaccines. His chase leads him to Egypt where some of the most effective vaccine ingredients come from the feared and deadly King Cobra's found around the nile pyramids. Coltrane is lured in to the citadel of Cheops in the great pyramid of the same name and while searching f...

Dan Coltrane, Asio field agent for the Australian government and Interpol crime investigative officer meets his nemesis from a previous encounter while in London working on a code break-in case involving confidential government information. He discovers that the United Displaced Persons organisation working out of Eastern Europe is intent on forming an invasion fleet of homeless immigrants ready to embark on a journey across the Indian Ocean to Western Australia. Coltrane alerts the defenc...

A threatening email arriving on Dan Coltrane's home computer one morning leads him into a world of murky banking practice and illicit finance. One finance conglomerate is engaged in the purchase of high art paintings for sale on the world-wide black market. Coltrane pursues Felix Blanchard, the CEO of a major Australian Bank and finds that he is charging illegal and fraudulent fees from every bank customer and channeling it into his own accounts. With the millions of dollars collected on a...

Greg Langford, an Australian Government Security Officer is onboard an Airforce jetliner returning invaluable Egyptian artefacts to Cairo from Canberra. Suddenly a ground to air missile fired by Somali terrorists locks on to them and a few terrfying minutes later the aircraft is hit and crashes in the Somali desert. Langford and his friend Barry Wilder are the only two crew to survive the crash. The terrorists responsible arrive at the scene intent on finding the treasure and raising finan...

Dan Coltrane is completing an assignment aboard an Australian warship investigating arms smuggling out of China when he is redirected to Mogadishu on the coast of Africa. With his newly met Naval officer friend Craig Aspen, both men discover a plan by hartched by a terrorist group to weaponise the Ebola virus and use it against the Australian mainland population. The information launches Coltrane and Aspin on a hunt to find the men responsible and bring them to justice. Before Coltrane is ...

This is a high quality book of the original classic edition.This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:These roads would in time give way to rougher trails, rock-strewn and licked by the little, whispering waters that make rivers, and he would travel by creek-bed ways over which wagons, if they ...

Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine. From its pre-Han dynasty roots to Chinese medicine as we know it today, Buck covers the key texts, the main scholars and the concepts they have contributed, emphasising those that are more relevant to clinicians wishing to understand the authentic tradition. The information presented is based on diverse sources inclu...

Exerpt: "A creaking complaint of loose and rattling boards rose under the old mountaineer's brogans as he stepped from the threshold to the porch. His eyes, searching the wooded mountain-side, held at first only that penetration which born woodsmen share with the hawk and ferret, but presently they kindled into irascibility as well." This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.