Anthony J. Broughton

Jenny Jones is abducted by Zenon Horak, a hit-man, and transported to Paradise Island in the Mediterranean Sea. A ransom of £10m in diamonds is demanded for her return. Ex-mercenaries Mike Randle and Suzie Drake agree to make the exchange. To surprise the abductors, Mike’s death is faked. Unconvinced, Horak tries to discover the truth and enters their home. Suzie confronts him wearing her kimono, which opens during their fight, stopping Horak momentarily as he stares at her naked body. He recovers and knocks out Suzie before making his escape. Mike begins a car chase after him around a cliff-top road. Catching Horak’s car, he rams it over the cliff edge, but does not see a bloodstained arm emerge from the mangled vehicle. Horak’s body is not in the wreck, and when the police uncover his hideout, he escapes on a motorbike. He heads down an embankment and enters a railway tunnel. A train enters the far end, and a smashed motorbike and unrecognizable body are flung from the tunnel. Mike and Suzie sail to Paradise Island intent on foiling the abductors and releasing their captive.

Ruthless but principled mercenaries Mike Randle and Suzie Drake, back from their last hazardous commando mission in Africa, realise it’s almost time to give up their lethal profession. The pressures of the job, and their own budding intimacy towards each other, lead them to reappraise their lives and careers. But a job half finished is a job undone, and when the despot known only as The General kidnaps Suzie, transporting her back to his jungle hideout in a bid to regain his stash of foreign millions, the skills of both protagonists, as well as MI6, Special Branch and Interpol, are called upon to meet his threat. Written in a dynamic, punchy style, with dashes of humour and suspense in equal measures, Time to Act follows in the best traditions of the action-thriller genre.

Following the robbery of a diamond merchant’s shop in Amsterdam, the killers move to London where the boss has an old score to settle with Henry Miller, the owner of a Diamond Emporium in Hatton Garden. The British police are also after Miller, and Suzie Drake is persuaded to befriend him in order to gather incriminating evidence for them. She has to agree to Miller’s sexual demands to gain his confidence, but finds herself in trouble when the killers take over his shop. They force him to purchase a large quantity of diamonds for them to steal, and it takes Suzie and her partner Mike Randle all their skills to avoid becoming the killer’s next victims.

Ex-soldier and mercenary Mike Randle and his sexy partner Suzie Drake tried to leave their soldiering days behind them, but events compel them to re-appraise their wishes and use their fighting skills once more. Mike and Suzie are called upon by Sir Joseph Sterling of the Foreign Office to investigate the activities of the notorious Mr Black, once a Metropolitan Police Inspector. Black is after a prize worth millions and is recruiting pilots to help him achieve it. Enter Paula, a trained RAF pilot and an old flame of Mike’s and Tanya, a sexy female with strong desires. To these add Ryall, an ambitious thief, and the chemistry between them all is electric. Daring raids, double crosses, life-threatening fights and sexual betrayals all combine in this high-action, adrenalin-fuelled thriller.

Kate, a young American widow, heads to Tuscany to rebuild her ancestral villa. While there, she encounters a seductive stranger that only she can see--who only appears to her whenever she is most vulnerable, tempting her as her late husband had never done. Is this mysterious stranger a ghost that only she can see, or a man with all too human desires?