Killing Time

Killing Time

John Kerr

John Kerr

Evil people exist..... Believe it. Demarco Salis, a brutal mountain of a man from South Africa, enters the United Kingdom, and brings with him a group of mercenaries to inflict as much terror, pain and destruction as they can. MI5's most secret unit, 'The Circle' have lost men, and are stretched to breaking point. They need their best man to return from retirement to take on this latest threat. Content with life and love, he is unaware that circumstances will bring them all together in a final bloody shoot out, somewhere high in the hills that he loves. I give you Jake Silverman..... Believe it.
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Hurricane Hole

Hurricane Hole

John Kerr

John Kerr

Tom Hamilton, a young American undercover agent, arrives in Nassau in late 1942, when German U-boats are sinking dozens of Allied merchant ships in the Caribbean. Posing as a playboy, Hamilton has been sent by his Washington bosses to investigate Nils Ericsson, a Swedish industrialist with known ties to the Nazis, whom he suspects is building a case for the U-boat fleet in Hurricane Hole. Hamilton falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman, Evelyn Shawcross, but with her affiliation to both Ericsson and the Duke of Windsor, wartime Governor of the Bahamas, his operation to foil the plot proves hazardous and deadly. Master storyteller John Kerr's Hurricane Hole is a gripping combination of espionage and tragic love, set against the backdrop of the tropical Bahamas and the celebrated murder of Sir Harry Oakes, the wealthiest man in the British Empire.
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Fell the Angels

Fell the Angels

John Kerr

John Kerr

Charles Cranbrook, collapses and dies a horrific death at The Priory, the neo-gothic house bought with his wealthy wife Cecilia's money. Was he murdered, or did he take his own life? In the course of the inquest, it emerges that beautiful Cecilia had been involved in a scandalous affair that is the talk of London. In Fell the Angels, based on the notorious Victorian murder involving Charles and Florence Bravo and Dr James Gully, proponent of the 'water cure', John Kerr reaches beneath the veneer of Victorian respectability and twists the ingredients of enormous fortune, sexual adventure, domestic abuse, avarice and jealousy into a satisfying whole. Expertly researched, Kerr reaches an intriguing solution to the case.
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Cardigan Bay

Cardigan Bay

John Kerr

John Kerr

A sweeping tale of two separate lives brought together in a time of historical crisis When Major Charles Davenport is evacuated to England to recuperate from a battle wound received at Tobruk, a letter is awaiting him from his wife in London, informing him that she's in love with another man and wants a divorce. Mary Kennedy is a young Irish-American who has moved to her grandparents' cottage in Ireland to mourn the loss of her husband and infant daughter. Participating in a Red Cross morale-building effort, she corresponds with a young British soldier, but his letters cease abrubtly following the fall of Tobruk. Determined to learn what has become of him she makes her way to the army hospital in Sussex where his commanding officer, Major Davenport, kindly explains the young soldier's fate. Thus begins a love story, carried out almost entirely by letter, crystallized by distance and heightened by the intimacy of the private written word set against the dramatic...
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