Bøger af Barry Kevin William Barry

Recently discharged from the Australian army, Simon meets a beautiful woman while travelling to Far North Queensland in Australia. They fall in love. When they reach the city of Cairns they encounter a man called Wilson. Wilson is the head of a secret government agency called AATIO, an organization responsible for 'the lethal removal' of unwanted criminal groups and terrorist cells which cannot be dealt with in a more 'legally acceptable' manner.The young woman is accidentally killed in an assassination attempt on Wilson's life. Consumed with grief and a lust for vengeance, the ex-soldier is drafted by Wilson into the ATTIO fold and sets out on a blood soaked vendetta against the people he has been told were responsible for his wife's murder. But there is more to her death than meets the eye. As the story unfolds, the ex-soldier becomes involved in a desperate plot to assassinate the Australian Prime Minister.

Irina Lothario, the beautiful, Russian born, wife of Australian mining magnate Oscar Lothario, is kidnapped, then brutally and senselessly murdered. Detective Inspector Andrew Daniels is charged with finding her killer.Barely coping with the tragic death of his own wife and trying desperately to raise his seven year old son without her, D.I. Daniels, together with his sexually diverse partner, D.C. Jayne Usher, attempt to chase down the four men responsible. But before their investigations can reveal the mastermind behind Irina's murder, one by one Andrew's suspects join their victim in the grave.Why was the beautiful, rich, woman killed so needlessly and violently? What deadly secret did Irina Lothario carry with her to the grave? A secret so devastating it would compel her killer to tie her to a chair and drive a garden pick into her head.Set in Far North Queensland, Australia, 'The Rich and The Dead' is Kevin William Barry's ninth novel.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GO TO CHARITYIn the tiny outback town of Colombo Creek, Reverend Charles Albertson makes a gruesome discovery. One of his parishioners, a quiet, reclusive man is found mutilated and murdered.Detective Inspector Roger Dark is dispatched from the city to investigate.As DI Dark's investigation into the vicious murder of Eduardo Ceasere proceeds, he learns that there is more to the murder than a simple crime of passion. Ceasere's past is revealed, providing vital clues to his killer's identity and the motive for the slaying.Now DI Dark must track down the killer and bring him to justice, and he has to do it before his quarry catches up with the only witness to the crime, Ceasere's missing fourteen year old daughter.

Have you ever wondered whatever happened to all those Nuclear weapons we all used to worry about?In 1991 the Iron curtain came down, the USA and the former United Soviet Socialist Republic signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, thousands of nuclear warheads were decommissioned, and mothballed away in numerous, top secret locations all over the USA and Eastern Europe.They're still there today..... All except one.An illegal arms dealer has obtained a nuclear weapon and is on his way to deliver it to Palestine. Former USSR nuclear scientist and psychopathic killer, Vladimir Michael Berswiski, has been engaged to rearm the bomb and suddenly buying real estate in Tal-Aviv is beginning to look like a really bad idea.Australian woman Iris Richards is about to embark on a voyage through the Mediterranean and is on a collision course with Berswiski. The sailing trip of a lifetime is rapidly turning into the exact opposite.Can Major Edmond Grey of Interpol stop Berswiski before he kills again? And Is Israel on its way to becoming one of the hottest travel destinations on the globe?

Seventeen Galaxy class Battle Cruisers suddenly appear in the sky above the planet Tran. The massive ships contain seventeen thousand and sixty two souls, refugees from a distant, now uninhabitable planet. They are the last remaining people from a once vibrant society and unless they can find a new home their extinction is inevitable.The people of Tran are a peace loving and welcoming race, but the aliens seeking refuge are considered by many to be vermin, a race of warmongers who have pillaged countless worlds and enslaved a dozen species. Even thier own world has been destroyed by their seemingly insatiable lust for violence and conquest.But how do the compassionate Tranians respond to the refugees request? Have the aliens really, finally recognised the error of their ways and embraced peace and harmony as a way of life as they claim? Or does their arrival herald the dawn of yet another invasion, another violent atrocity at the hands of the alien vermin from across the galaxy?Crime writer Kevin Willaim Barry's first venture into science fiction.

John Randal Ex Australian Army chopper pilotreceives an offer of a job on Oreck Island, a tropicalparadise off the coast of far north Australia.Just days after his arrival, dozens of people arestruck down with a mysterious and deadly virus.The entire island is placed under quarantine.Now John, with the help of two German Doctors sentto the island by an organisation known as the PhoenixFoundation, must race against time to find a cure forthe deadly pathogen.But what is the truth behind the deadly disease,and how is John's ex wife involved?