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October 20, 2016
PocketDocs Running with Scissors: The Man with the AK-47 is my Friend
On a suggestion of a friend, I decided to enter the Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) PocketDocs: Running with Scissors project. The objective was to write a 500 word story about a moment you did something reckless.
I decided to give it a go and entered a story about my first overseas travels as an adult, backpacking through Kenya and describing several of the risking situations I found myself in. ‘The Man with the AK-47 is my Friend’ got picked up and you can read it here.
May of my...
September 14, 2016
The Benevolent Deception book trailer made like a movie trailer
When I was planning how to promote my novel, The Benevolent Deception, I decided to createa book trailer. The finished productruns for one minute only, so doesn’t take up muchtime to watch. But a minute is fast, and you can’t get much information across in 60 seconds.
Most book trailers are–let’s face it – terrible, so I thought if I’m going to put one together, I better make it good. So my first step was watchingmovie trailers like SPECTRE, Skyfall, Jason Bourne and other spy movies for ins...
August 15, 2016
Unconfirmed Reports Air Force One Shot down by Afghan Insurgents
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Asia
KABUL, Afghanistan — Unconfirmed reports from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, report Air Force One was shot down in the early morning local time, by Afghan insurgents hidden just outside the perimeter of the U.S. controlled base.
It is uncertain if the U.S. President was on board at the time, however, many officials in the White House and Pentagon fear that he was, and may have died during the attack.
Reports from U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)...
95% reduction in illicit drug production in Latin America
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South America
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States— In a joint press release, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced a new operational intelligence program that has identified — and sub sequentially led to — the destruction of up to 95% of all illicit drug production facilities in Latin America, but neither agency would reveal details on how this new technique works.
DEA Deputy Administrator, Ms Emily Sandoval, sai...
Significant reduction in arms trade across Africa
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Africa
LAGOS, Nigeria — Despite escalating conflicts and insurgent activities in many sub-Saharan African nations, and the associated demand for arms sales these conflicts drive, the last 6 months has seen a significant drops in availability of weapons for sale across the continent.
The accessibility of both illegal and legal arms dropped to 18% of the previous year’s sales, according the European based non-government organisation (NGO), Global Arms Surveillance G...
August 14, 2016
Five Killed in Safari Massacre in Northern Kenya
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Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya — Three Americans, one Australian and one New Zealander have been shot dead by poachers in an unprovoked attack at a safari camp in the Samburu National Reserve, approximately 300km north of Nairobi in northern Kenya.
One American tourist disappeared during the altercation and her whereabouts is still unknown.
Quick thinking on behalf of the tour operates saw the remaining tourists escape the camp site unharmed. The twelve surviving tourists...
August 7, 2016
July 31, 2016
Announcement Soon
Announcement on novel coming soon . . .
June 9, 2016
Miniseries Review: The Night Manager
I generally find John Le Carre film and television adaptations to be hit and miss, but in The Night Manager the world might just have been presented with the best Le Carre adaptation yet.
The six part miniseries is the story of former British soldier, Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), working as the night manager for a luxury hotel in Cairo. While the riots of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution threaten the streets outside the hotel, Pine soon becomes involved with guest Sophie Alekan (Aure Atika), t...
May 25, 2016
8 real world gadgets perfect for modern espionage thrillers
Technology is developing at an ever expanding rate, and have as much implications on fictional worlds as in real life. Here are eight new real world gadgets that you might see in thriller novels of the future, some of which appear in my novel when it is released later this year.
Every character in an espionage thriller runs the risk of taking a bullet. The gunshot wound syringe could be the new tech saving their lives.
This sponge-filled syringe is designed to plug ga...
