The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war“Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s EndIn the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bom...

A phone call in the middle of the night alerted Larry Dexxman to the death of his wife Penny's friend Stella. It seemed to be a simple mugging, but what should have been a straight forward investigation turns major when the bodies start to pile up.Initial enquiries reveal that Stella's past, and her present, were shrouded in mystery, and when the frequent trips that she took before her death lead to the Department of Work and Pensions whose office in London is unaccountably destroy...

Cindy is struggling to assimilate Oblitus' legacy, when she takes a short break in the real world.It is less of a break than anticipated when she encounters an organisation bent on the destruction of all Witches.And to add to that, she saves two children from almost certain death. Prevents two elderly pensioners from being mugged, and has to resist the advances of some amorous teenagers.Coming home after seeing her friends in the park, she is shocked to discover that h...

With virtually nothing happening except divorce cases, Larry is getting bored. So much so that when he is approached by a five year old to find her stolen Panda, he jumps at the chance.But when the one escalates into seventeen, and then a murder in front of him, followed by an attempt on his own life, and the death of his friend, he realises that there is more to this affair than was at first realised.It seems that an eighteenth Panda may be the key to the puzzle, so all of h...

Cindy Lost was an ordinary girl with an ordinary mother. That is, until she set the cat's tail on fire by waving a stick at him.After that everything became weird. Gnomes coming out of her mother's glass cabinet, being just one example, and large Black birds asking to be let into the house being another.Her introduction into a world of enchantment and all things magical was tempered by the knowledge that something evil was lurking there.Finding out that her mother w...

A Massive explosion that destroyed the underground station, when Larry Dexman was walking past…A strange drone that flew overhead and dropped a bomb, when Larry was taking Sally to the Vets…A missile fired from an adjacent building into his bedroom almost completely destroying the building…Two armed assailants driven out of Gregory's café, by Larry and an MI6 sniper…An encounter with a machine gunner in a London street…Two of his friends both murdered in ...

Robert was almost ten years old, so things like make believe worlds and strange creatures were no mystery to him. He wasn't a complete baby, and realised that was just what they were, make believe. So when his Grandpa started to tell him stories about other realities and the weird and wonderful beings that inhabited them, he thought he was just being told made up stuff. That is, until he took a real look into Grandpa Kenneth's garden shed….

With the ordeal of the Black Witch behind her, Cindy Lost has settled down to her new life in the Witches Realm. But she is tested to the limit when, against all that is possible, Allott's Claw is stolen.To add to her woes, an invisible menace from the far past, that thrives on evil, and murders the innocent, has resurfaced, and possesses the stealer of the Claw.Its previous host, the Black Witch, was destroyed by Cindy at enormous cost to herself, but unbeknown to her at th...

The mysterious death of a seemingly innocent man, in a hit and run;Two people that Margaret Dexxman feels are not who they say they are;The unexpected failure of the brakes and steering on her own car;The attempt on her life, with her hire car;The attempted mugging of her friend, by a knife wielding thug;The poisoning of their client, and the discovery of bleached bones in a clearing.These, and the looming crisis of Covid-19, are the hazards that M...

It all started when Larry Dexxman received a letter more than twenty years late. It cast doubt upon the official verdict of accidental death on two employees of a legal company, one of which was Larry's former wife. Several attempts on Larry's life, when there is no discernible reason for them, drag him ever further into a web of lies and deceit.It seems to involve espionage, and is believed to be centred on the law firm of Parkes and Parkes, until links back to a former adversary a...

The fourth book in the Daisy Weal SeriesDaisy Weal was gifted with extraordinary powers. Her early years were spent learning how to control them, learning how to fit in and learning how to be human.Daisy had just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when the Crenian came to earth.His race had been wiped out by a genetic shift that had been introduced centuries ago, and instinctively his first act was to attack Daisy, before he realised that her powers were at least equal ...

Recovering from a heart attack, Larry is being overprotected by his colleagues, which in itself is providing more stress than he needs, so he decides to take some time out with a visit to Gregory's café.A conversation overheard in the café attracts Larry's attention, and becomes more intriguing when a day later he witnesses the murder of the principle speaker. On the spur of the moment as he kneels beside the dying girl he makes a promise. He promises to find the murderer, whatever...