Michael Parker

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I have been writing thrillers for many years and have experienced the highs and lows of being a writer. My first novel, NORTH SLOPE was published in 1980, and is now available as a POD paperback and Kindle on Amazon. I have been married to Patricia for fifty six years and we live in West Sussex. We have four sons, ten grandchildren and two great grandsons. My hobby is writing, of course, and to date I have had ten novels published. You can see my list in Author Central. My other hobbies are snooker, speedway, football and music. I play snooker, watch football and speedway, and used to play the keyboard (not too well). I am a born again Christian and played keyboard in my fellowship for several years. I worked as a maintenance technician most of my adult life, serving sixteen years in the Royal Air Force, and about seventeen years with a food manufacturer. I retired in 1996 (I was fifty five years old) and moved out to Spain a year later. Pat and I lived on the Costa Blanca for seventeen years and moved back to the UK towards the end of 2014. Other jobs I have done include Merchant Seaman, Office boy, and general maintenance for a chicken farmer! I have received many excellent comments about my writing, but the proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. I am a member of the International Thriller Writers and used to be a contributing editor with them. In 2009, I worked on a global project with eleven other writers and produced a novel called PASSAGE TO REDEMPTION. This is now available as a POD novel and Kindle by Acclaimed Books Ltd. (www.acclaimedbooks.com) of which I am an associate. For those of you who want to know a little more about me, and see me 'in the flesh', check out my website at www.michaelparkerbooks.com, where you'll be able to see a couple of TV interviews I have had. My thriller novel titled THE BOY FROM BERLIN was released in December 2011 and has been picked up by Harlequin who have purchased (leased) the English language paperback rights for North America and Canada. This has been published (2013) now in paperback. They also leased the American rights to THE EAGLE'S COVENANT. My current titles: NORTH SLOPE, a COVERT WAR, ROSELLI'S GOLD, HELL'S GATE, THE DEVIL'S TRINITY, and SHADOW OF THE WOLF (March 2013) are available on Amazon and Kindle. Last year (2015), my publisher released a romance of mine: PAST IMPERFECT. This is a romance with a rough edged back story. Something of a change from my other titles. After that I published A DANGEROUS GAME which is available on most on-line book stores. It is also available in paperback on Amazon. My latest thriller. WHERE THE WICKED DWELL, is now available on line.

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Hell's Gate Jan 5, 2015

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HELL’S GATE is a historical action adventure set in British East Africa in 1898. It is inspired by the true events in the British Protectorate when the British government constructed a railway line from Mombassa on the east coast of Africa to the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda. At the same time the German government was building a line from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria. History records that the ‘race’ was conceded to the British by the governor of the German Protectorate. Into these facts, Michel Parker has woven a tale of intrigue, violence and conspiracy against a backdrop of the splendour of the Rift Valley and the volcanic landscape that threatens the very existence of the railway line itself. But it isn’t just the forces of nature that need to be fought, but the threat of 10,000 warring Masai led by the evil slave trader, Piet Snyder. Against this menace, Captain Kingsley Webb, commandant of the British East African Rifles is ordered to defend Nairobi railway camp and the two thousand souls who make up this teeming, tented city with just two hundred soldiers under his command. His love for the beautiful Hannah Bowers is also challenged by the widowed farmer, Reuben Cole who is forced to set out on a quest to find his son, David, kidnapped by Piet Snyder. The explosive mixture of love, conspiracy, treachery and political intrigue are brought together in a beautifully woven tapestry in this compelling tale. Will suit readers who like stories of colonial Africa, the British Empire, railway construction, slavery, action heroes, 19th. century military and romantic intrigue.

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Shadow Of The Wolf Apr 30, 2015

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It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm-lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland a German commando group lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Dönitz to find a missing U boat captain who holds the secrets to Britain's new centimetric radar.
The islanders, remnants of a once thriving whaling community, know of the existence of the submarine commander from a pre-war association but deny that existence. Schafer knows they are lying and his search for the secrets to Britain's new weapon unravels a patchwork of intrigue, guilt and shame.
In a shattering race against time all that stands between success and failure for Schafer is the tenacious courage of two young people, Billy and Ailie, and an old whale catching boat, the Nordcaper.

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Roselli's Gold Jan 14, 2015

by Michael Parker

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During the Second World War, Captain Miles Roselli hides three dead comrades and a fortune in Vatican gold in the Tibesti Mountains of the northern Sahara. Twenty years later, he is forced into a battle of wits when the secret of the gold bullion is revealed. Roselli was the only man alive who knew anything about the gold’s whereabouts and never expected the truth to come to light. The slaughter of a gold bullion dealer in London opens up a race for the gold, which involves the Italian mafia and the Vatican. But for the Holy See of Rome, the gold is of little interest to them, it is the document that had been stolen from the Secret Archives and concealed with the gold; its revelation could do lasting damage to the Roman Catholic Church. Roselli has to call on all his old instincts and the guile of a Desert Rat to protect his name, his family and the truth that lies buried beneath the Tibesti Mountains.

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A Covert War Mar 25, 2015

by Michael Parker

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Marcus Blake's ramshackle security agency has no clients to speak of…

But one day, Susan Ellis walks into his office and asks him to help find her brother who has gone missing in Afghanistan. In that moment, Marcus' world is turned upside down and he is plunged into a covert war where arms and drugs are traded by renegades within the CIA. Now, in his quest to find Susan's brother, Marcus faces terror and betrayal in a dangerous world where one cannot tell friend from foe.

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The Boy from Berlin Feb 12, 2018

by Michael Parker

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He’s a black cop and he's hunting a killer. But when his prime suspect is the frontrunner for the presidency, he may find himself and his family buried with the evidence.
Despite obstruction and collusion in his precinct, can this dedicated police officer cop catch a killer who enjoys Secret Service protection?

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A Dangerous Game Jan 22, 2021

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When Charlie Picket was sent to Mexico by his boss, he didn't expect to end up with a thirteen year old girl in tow and be hunted by the FBI, the CIA and the Mexican police. But the hunters wanted the girl who was key to the theft of ten billion dollars and the overthrow of the Mexican government.

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HUNTED Mar 2, 2019

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Martin Quil is a killer; he hunts men down, but sometimes the tables get turned. When Quil is sent to Germany by his controller at MI6 to find the man responsible for the death of a British agent, he uncovers a Chechnyan plot to assassinate the Russian president, and as he gets closer to the killer, he is kidnapped and taken to Russia where an almost certain and painful death awaits him. No longer is Quil the hunter, but now he is the hunted as he flees through the forest high up in the Arctic Circle. Enjoy this high octane, pulp fiction thriller as the dogs and wolves bear down on Quil in a tense chase that ends in bloody death.

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Past Imperfect Jan 29, 2019

by Michael Parker

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This is a romance with a hard-edged back story. It is two years since the wife of best-selling author Max Reilly died in a car crash along with her lover. Max is still recovering from her death and her deception. So when he meets Emma - who is awaiting divorce from her violent husband - and quickly becomes attracted to her, it is hard to reconcile with his grief. Emma is cautious and keen to hold back and Max is determined to keep his secrets from her. This becomes increasingly difficult when he finds himself facing his past and one secret in particular, involving violence, murder and betrayal.

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Where the Wicked Dwell Feb 19, 2017

by Michael Parker

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Why would anyone believe the suicide of a British Cabinet Minister was not as it seemed?

Former head of MI6, Sir Giles Cavendish believes otherwise and asks private investigator, Marcus Blake to find the truth. Marcus has unusual talents which are tested to the limits when he comes up against a group of powerful Satanists who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims, including illegal, genetic engineering. As he gets closer to them, Marcus puts his life on the line to uncover the truth of the minister's death and destroy the Machiavellian practices of those evil men.

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North Slope Aug 24, 2016

by Michael Parker

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Murder on the frozen wastes of Alaska as man and machine battle against the elements in the search for oil. A thriller inspired by the events of 1968 on the ice desert known as the North Slope.

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Michael Parker's First Three Novels Aug 23, 2016

by Michael Parker

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The first three books published by Michael Parker across three different genres but touch all bases: Thriller, Action & Adventure and World War Two.

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A Word In Your Ear Apr 14, 2016

by Michael Parker

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A Christian tale: a journey.
Unusual for an established thriller writer to pen a religious book, you might say, but as a born again Christian I have no problem with the path God chose for me. If He hadn't wanted me to write the kind of novels I do, he wouldn't have opened the doors. But he did want me to do work for Him, and my story is how He changed my life when my wife and I arrived in Spain to enjoy our early retirement. We weren't even Christians then. The sermons I have included in my book are almost all personal experiences of mine within the Christian world and life in general. I hope they will be meaningful to you and just as important; I hope you enjoy them.

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