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Favorite quotes from “The Ninth Orphan” thriller novel

Here’s some favorite quotes from our international thriller “The Ninth Orphan”, Book #1 in The Orphan Trilogy:

Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials – elected or otherwise – were puppets who only had the illusion of power…

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields…

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired…

Japan had gained enormous wealth when it invaded China and a dozen or so other Asian countries during the Second World War. The Japanese looted bullion by the truckload. In addition to the incalculable amounts of gold, gigantic quantities of diamonds, silver and religious artifacts had also been stolen. These colossal treasure troves were shipped to the Philippines in preparation for transportation to Japan. However, as the war in the Pacific intensified, the ever-increasing presence of Allied ships made the transport of such treasure problematic for Japan. As a result, much of it was hidden in the Philippines…

Links for The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1):

Trade paperback – https://www.createspace.com/3642008                                                                                       

Kindle ebook-                                                                                               http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0056I4FKC                                         http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0056I4FKC

Read about our historical novel “Fiji” in Suva’s Fiji Times newspaper

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=210035

Making waves

Tevita Vuibau

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Fiji: A Novel – the book that is making waves online. Picture: BALJEET SINGH

A BOOK on Fiji written by a father and son team is making waves online and cracking Amazon.com’s best selling list over the last couple of weeks.

The book titled Fiji: A Novel was co-authored by Lance Morcan and his son James and was published late last year.

Mr Morcan said he had been inspired by the work of American author James Michener, adding he wanted Fiji to have a story that did justice to its beauty.

Set in the early 1800s, the novel follows protagonists Susannah Drake and Nathan Johnson as the pair travel from Levuka to Momi Bay.

He said the two-year journey to write the novel was a challenging one as he had to co-author long distance with his son.

“He is based in Sydney and I’m based here in New Zealand, so we had to do the whole thing through Skype and emails,” he said.

Mr Morcan said they were both strong-willed which made the writing of the novel an interesting exercise.

He said they were in the process of taking the book to the silver screen.

“James and I are also screenwriters and film producers, and have put Fiji into development as a feature film with our production company, Morcan Motion Pictures,” he added.

Mr Morcan said the book was available at the USP Book Centre, however, they were looking at ways to get more people to access the book.

“We want to put the book in hotels and resorts for them to use as giveaways to their most valued customers and then in this way we can get more locals as well reading the book,” he said.

Critical acclaim for Fiji: A Novel has been pouring in.

Susan M Heim, author and editor of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series heaped praise on the novel.

“If you’re a fan of adventure, history, even romance, you’ll want to pick up a copy of Fiji: A Novel and brace yourself for the ride,” she said.

“It’s an intense story that will have you turning the pages long into the night.”

Historical author Joan Mcgrath gave the book a four star rating calling it “a wonderfully entrancing read”.

Fiji: A Novel is available from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Fiji-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B0057YCZM0/

Is Queen Elizabeth II the wealthiest and most powerful person on earth?

The Queen is one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not THE wealthiest. Our thriller novel The Orphan Factory covers secret Royal assets and undeclared income http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW 

Also, here’s an excerpt from The Orphan Factory on Queen Elizabeth II:

In fact, Lady Penelope was only distantly related to the Windsors, or British Royals, and that relationship was by marriage rather than blood. However, she was an influential figure as she represented many of Queen Elizabeth’s financial interests.

Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II’s name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor’s assets and income were mostly non-declared. Naylor himself claimed to have witnessed one offshore bank account of the Queen’s whose value was in the hundreds of billions.

Contrary to the myth that the British Royals were no longer all-powerful, it was common knowledge within Omega and other organizations in the know that they remained one of the most dominant forces on the planet. The Royals were totally comfortable with the mass populace believing they’d passed their heyday. That belief allowed them to control things behind the scenes with effortless ease. And control they did, in every way imaginable.

The reality was the Windsors had their fingers in many pies and had a huge say in global affairs. At home, they dictated to the British Parliament, and no elected Prime Minister could take up office without first pledging total allegiance to the Queen and future King. To Kentbridge’s way of thinking, that proved Britain was no more a democracy than was the United States.

The special agent had often told his orphans that in her capacity as the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth nations, the Queen had legitimate business interests in the pharmaceutical, banking and mineral industries in most or all of those countries. No small cheese considering those nations included mineral-rich Canada and Australia as well as India and numerous African states.

Kentbridge had also told the orphans it was a commonly held belief within Omega that the Queen bankrolled and reaped the rewards from other far more secretive ventures worldwide. As for the exact nature of those other ventures, nobody in the agency knew.

Lady Penelope’s active involvement in Omega proved beyond doubt to Kentbridge and his superiors that the British Royals considered the agency a likely way to expand its semisecret, global empire. The extremely intelligent and influential Omega founding members gave the Royals faith that the below-the-radar Omega Agency would eventually become the potent organization it strived to be.

Read more in The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW

Einstein’s One World vision explored in The Orphan Trilogy novels

“The only salvation for civilization lies in the creation of a world government”

–Albert Einstein.

Do you agree with Einstein? Or do you believe individual nations are still important?

These issues are explored in my new release thriller novel, The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/ as well as its predecessor The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC 

 

Iron Mike Tyson used as inspiration for our new novel

 

Below is the opening quote to our coming-of-age spy thriller novel The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/

“A boy comes to me with a spark of interest.

I feed the spark and it becomes a flame.

I feed the flame and it becomes a fire.

I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.”

-Cus D’Amato (Trainer of World Heavyweight Champions Mike Tyson & Floyd Patterson)

The spirit of Cus D’Amato (who many boxing experts say is the greatest trainer who ever lived) is reflected in The Orphan Factory in that Cus knew how to get the very best out of his young proteges. Likewise, in the novel, the Omega fathers know how to get the best out of their orphans so that they eventually become the most ruthless assassins.

The relationship between the young Mike Tyson and the elderly Cus D’Amato was one of the inspirations for the novel’s father-son like relationship between lead character Nine (aka Sebastian) and Tommy Kentbridge, his mentor inside the orphange. 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/

World’s secret elite exposed in our thriller novel The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2)

“Now, we can see a new world

coming into view.

A world in which there is

the very real prospect of a

new world order.”

-President George H. W. Bush

(Speech to Congress – March 6, 1991)
 
Read more about the New World Order in our coming-of-age spy thriller novel (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
 
 

President George H. W. Bush
 
 

SILENT FEAR our latest feature film to go into development

When you can’t hear…death comes silently.

That’s the tagline for SILENT FEAR, a unique and chilling New Zealand thriller screenplay penned by James and myself, and now in development as a Film Shock Productions-Morcan Motion Pictures production.

Inspired by a true story, it’s set in a university for the deaf in Auckland.

Here’s the logline:

Detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at Auckland’s Wandsworth University, an international institution for the deaf. Her investigation coincides with a student contracting a deadly flu virus, which results in the university being sealed off from the outside world. When more deaf students are murdered, it’s clearly the work of a serial killer. The stakes rise when Valerie becomes the killer’s next target and the deadly virus claims more lives.

SILENT FEAR will be directed by rising Auckland filmmaker Amanda Phillips, whose debut feature film, DESIRED, premiered at Cannes in 2011.

Here’s Amanda’s vision for the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1Ey3a5TyE

It’s our first film in the intended 3D SILENT FEAR franchise. We are seeking finance and distribution for this production now.

For more information go to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935228/

Julian Assange – an egotist outta control or a whistleblower with a social conscience?

That’s the question many are asking as WikiLeaks’ champion struts his stuff whilst holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in ‘Londontown’.

Without debating the rights and wrongs of Assange’s actions in publishing 90,000 or so sensitive US documents, we do share many of his concerns about ‘Big Brother’ and its role in today’s world – the morality of US foreign affairs, the banking system, Bilderberg, MK-Ultra and CIA-sanctioned mind control experiments to name but a few.

These and much more feature in our international thriller novels The Ninth Orphan and The Orphan Factory, Books #1 and #2 in The Orphan Trilogy. 

 

Both novels are available as Kindle ebooks and trade paperbacks, and both feature in Amazon’s Top Rated Spy Books list.

Links for: The Ninth Orphan:

Trade paperback – https://www.createspace.com/3642008                                                                                       

Kindle ebook-                                                                                               http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0056I4FKC                                         http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0056I4FKC

Links for The Orphan Factory:

Kindle ebook – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/                              http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Orphan-Factory-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/   http://www.amazon.de/The-Orphan-Factory-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/ http://www.amazon.fr/The-Orphan-Factory-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/

http://www.youtube.com/user/SterlingGateBooks

More about those puppet masters who pull the strings…

Our blog of August 12 seems to have raised more questions than answers.

 

We asked the question: What do Bill Clinton, David Rockefeller, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Ben Bernanke, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes have in common?

 

Well, each has attended meetings of the Bilderberg Group, a secretive, invitation-only organization whose annual conferences for the most part remain mysteriously off the record. 

  

Our international thriller novel, The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1), shines a light on the little known Bilderberg Group and portrays it as being America’s, and the world’s, shadow government. This novel, which merges fact with fiction, exposes a secret elite pulling the strings of various administrations. 

 

Is there any truth behind this supposed political conspiracy? Well, that depends on who you ask.

 

Conspiracy theorists have long said the Bilderberg Group undermines democracy and influences everything from nations’ political leaders to the venue for the next war; the politicians and industrialists who attend say it’s nothing more than a think-tank, conducted without media coverage so the world’s most powerful can speak freely.

 

Certainly, it’s easy to see why conspiracy theories plague the group.

 

Bilderberg takes its name from a hotel of the same name in the Netherlands where the first meeting took place in 1954. Ever since, every Bilderberg conference has received almost complete media blackouts despite being held at prominent five-star resorts.

 

Conspiracy theorists point out this dearth of media coverage is highly unusual given the veritable who’s who of world leaders and movers-and-shakers in attendance each year.

 

Other notable US political figures to have officially attended Bilderberg meetings include current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig and Colin Powell, former President Gerald Ford as well as Texas Governor and 2012 Presidential hopeful Rick Perry.

 

Some say these and all other US attendees have been in direct violation of the Logan Act, a Federal law which prevents US citizens and representatives from making policy decisions in secret with foreign government officials. However, no Bilderberger has ever acknowledged engaging in policy-making during the meetings and there is no clear proof that any of them do.

 

On the international roster, Bilderbergers have included leaders of almost every Western nation, Swiss bankers, EU Commissioners and Royalty. Among past and present attendees are current Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher, the King of Spain Juan Carlos I and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip.

 

Beyond these confirmed Bilderbergers, there’s also a raft of other high profile figures suspected to have participated in conferences – according to the conspiracy theorists at least. For example, shortly before becoming the US President, Barack Obama was rumored to have met with key Bilderberg members at or near their conference venue in Chantilly, Virginia, in 2008.

 

Veteran Bilderberg observer, Jim Tucker, phoned Obama’s office during the campaign to confirm whether he had attended the conference. A campaign spokeswoman refused to discuss the matter, but would not deny that Obama had attended.

 

Other rumored attendees include Rupert Murdoch, George Bush, Sr. and George W. Bush. Hillary Clinton also denies having attended any Bilderberg meetings despite reported sightings of her at the locations of the 2006 (Toronto) and 2008 (Virginia) conferences.

 

Bill Clinton, however, was an official attendee of the 1991 Bilderberg conference in Germany while still a little known Governor of Arkansas; the following year he won the US Presidential Election.

 

So what does all this mean exactly? Is it just a pile of the usual circumstantial evidence that seems to conveniently support most conspiracy theories?

 

According to Belgian magnate and Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon, that is exactly the case. Davignon says an attraction of Bilderberg Group meetings is they provide an opportunity for participants to speak candidly and to find out what major figures really think without the risk of off-the-cuff comments becoming fodder for media controversy. However, partly because of its working methods to ensure strict privacy, the Bilderberg Group is often accused of conspiracies.

 

Then again, it is hard to believe the only decisions the world’s elite make at these exclusive resorts each year is what to order for dinner or what time to play golf.

We address this, and other ‘awkward’ questions surrounding Bilderberg in The Ninth Orphan.

Here’s some other useful sources of information: 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-aEcF8Rjg

 

Background info:

bilderbergmeetings.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants

 

The Ninth Orphan is available as a Trade Paperback on Createspace and Amazon. It’s also available as an ebook via Amazon.

 

https://www.createspace.com/3642008

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

“Fiji: A Novel” a finalist for Best Historical Fiction award

Yay! Our historical adventure, Fiji: A Novel, has been announced as a finalist in eFestival of Words Virtual Book Fair’s Best of the Independent eBook Awards in the Historical Fiction category.

http://www.efestivalofwords.com/finalists-for-best-historical-fiction-t155.html