Julian Rathbone

On her second voyage to Mars in 2026, the crew of the nuclear powered Asclepius II enjoy a nearly flawless two month journey to the 4th planet ... until their flight computer mistakes a minor isolation box incident for catastrophic cabin decompression, and initiates the real thing, pitching the Captain of the ship into the vacuum of space, and blowing the expedition's chief exobiologist, Joan Desaliers, overboard in the escape pod, which thinks it's landing on Earth. Desperate to recover her before it lands, second-in-command Ted Schmit causes the death of two more of his crew, and dooms Desaliers, of late also his lover, to be the first person to walk on Mars, and the first one never to return to Earth.

London, 1851. An alluring, outspoken widow and an enigmatic agent are drawn into a web of power, greed, and ambition that threatens to overturn the very future of the British Empire…Society knows Lilly Clarence Hampton as a respected widow who was wildly in love with her husband, the architect of London’s famed Crystal Palace. The truth…well, the truth would cost Lilly her reputation, her freedom, and quite possibly her life. And one man has uncovered it—the reclusive, savagely handsome Julian St. Martin. A former agent of the Crown, Julian intends to blackmail Lilly to obtain plans to the Palace, where the Koh-I-Noor—the largest diamond in the world—will be presented to Queen Victoria at the Great Exhibition. Men have committed all manner of crimes to possess the fabled gem, but Julian’s intentions are even darker. And the closer he gets to the beguiling Lilly, the more complicated matters become.Succumbing to intense, primal desire, Julian and Lilly both become pawns in a wicked game where no one can be trusted, and where the final, shocking truth will test their newfound passion to the limit…

Arnold Cartwright, an 'ordinary Englishman', has lost his job and marriage. A highly-qualified radar technician, he is recruited by a Spanish-based company working in 'commercial aircraft control'. Right from the start, Cartwright realises that the job he is working on is not as innocent as it seems. A murder attempt on his father makes it clear to him that he has his job for life or death... A post-cold-war thriller, Sand Blind raises questions of fundamental importance - the morality of international arms sales, the use and abuse of double agents and Western support for power-crazed dictators. A sexy, enthralling page-turner, Sand Blind is the work of a brilliant writer at the height of his powers.

This is the fascinating story of master spy, Richard Austen, a mole for the Soviets embedded in the heart of the British establishment.

Description: 118 p. ; 20 cm. Abstract: An unmarried couple's separation is complicated by children. The father is a TV scriptwriter who has been unfaithful, the mother is in publishing and the setting is London. As he narrates their story, the man describes his mixed feelings, torn between the prospect of freedom and the loss of his sons.