Bøger af John Sealey

The story subtly defines serious problems existing between good and evil, justice and injustice and unusual circumstances ruining a man's life, a good man with values who by being made redundant is innocently drawn into a world of crime.The story concerns Amit Somaya, a British Citizen, of Asian parents, married to Jaya. They have two children, Rayani, a boy aged 14, and Sarala, a girl aged 10.Amit, an experienced marine engineer, is suddenly made REDUNDANT (Hence the first part of the title) and finds it very difficult to get another job because of the scarcity of his kind of work together with racism in the work place.Amit, unable to find employment and beginning to get into financial difficulty is approached by Johnny Landor, the owner of The Indian Ocean Shipping Company, who offers him a job as chief engineer on a ship waiting to return from India to the UK. Johnny Landor sweetens the offer by saying it will also give him the opportunity to visit his and his wife's relatives before joining the ship.Amit to his horror is soon to discover he is being drawn into the sordid world of drugs, prostitution, protection rackets and loan sharks.As his world begins to collapse around him and fearing for his family, Amit decides to fight back. Pressured by Customs and the Police Drug Squads, Amit agrees to co-operate to break Johnny Landor and his racketeering. During a planned raid, Johnny Landor suspects Amit of being an informer and threatens to shoot him. A struggle ensues and Johnny Landor is accidentally shot with his own gun.Fearing he will be arrested for murder, Amit escapes, goes on the run, still without a job, REDUNDANT and a FUGITIVE.

On 9th April 1940 when the Germans invaded Norway, many of the officers who were at the spearhead, were men who as teenagers in the First World War, were evacuated from Vienna to escape the Italian bombing, to stay with kindly and hospitable Norwegian families. They were especially chosen because they possessed an unusual intimate knowledge of the Norwegian people, their country and their language, It was Winston Churchill who gave them their contemptuous name "Vengeful Cuckoos" returning to foul the very nests that had once given them loving sanctuary.This is the story of one of them, Kapitan zur See Otto Wilhelm Schmidt, 38, a German naval officer, in command of "Essen" a destroyer converted as a mine layer, ordered to return to Hæranger, a small fishing town on the edge of a fjord in Southern Norway, ordered to act as civil administrator until such times as the occupation is complete when specially trained personnel will take over. Wilhelm believes the occupation of Norway is to protect the people from the aggressive British plans to invade Norway and is determined the occupation of Hæranger will be as peaceful as possible. This does not meet with the approval of Oberleutnant Fritz Goetz, his second in command, who is arrogant, overbearing and secretly a member of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence. Wilhelm despises Goetz and the Nazi party that has produced him and others like him.Formally presenting himself to the Mayor of Hæranger, is shocked when he discovers the man with the gold chain of office is John Hermansen, the head of the family who kindly took him in as an evacuee, and his daughter Kristin with whom he had a youthful romance, now a poised and beautiful women, acting as Deputy mayor as her mother has sadly passed away. Nils overhears Wilhelm announce the adult population are to be conscripted into forced labour. He goes to meet Olav his father who is returning from a business trip to Oslo and persuades him not to come home, but go to Lågholm high up on the mountain ridge, backed by huge mountains on one side, and protected by dense forest on the other three, the perfect hideaway. Ragnhild, a beautiful girl in her early twenties who was assaulted by Goetz by deliberately frisking her in a very intimate manner, decides to fight her own war against the invaders by alluring the sailors with the promise of sex and then killing them with a stiletto she keeps hidden in the top of her stockings. Svein Lauritsen, principal of Hæranger's further education college refuses to obey the directive to introduce Nazi ideology into the college curriculum and is arrested and sent on a harrowing train journey, along with other teachers who have also refused, packed together in cattle trucks to Grini concentration camp.Many wanting to seek revenge on the German occupation, slowly make their way to Lågholm to join Olav and Nils. Soon they have enough men to form a resistance group and begin to attack German supplies. Nils is caught spying and is sentenced to be publicly executed in the town square. Suddenly torn between his duty to the Reich and his desire not to deal too harshly with the people as disobedience and the resistance grows, Wilhelm finds himself under pressure from the Gestapo and is forced to adopt stronger and more oppressive measures. In the midst of the turmoil, Kristin reveals to Wilhelm the secret she has kept from him for years that Nils is actually his son. The revelation propels him into a decision to save Nils from execution he is forced to compromise himself and seek the help of the resistance.An elaborate, but risky plan is put into place by the resistance and as a consequence Wilhelm finds himself overwhelmed by the developing situation that reaches a dramatic and explosive climax.

One Autumn morning, a group of fanatical terrorists set in motion an earth shattering strike against the very foundations of the most powerful nation in the world. They were aiming, at a stroke, to wipe out the government and executive of the nation, thereby creating a vacuum from which their new world order would emerge, Robert Catesby was the Bin Laden of his time, a charismatic but wild young man from a privileged background, who had become embittered by earlier brushes with authority, and eventually decided that extreme forms of violence were both justified and the only way to achieve his ends.Impressed by the force of his personality, Catesby gathered around him a small band of malcontents, and the group saw themselves as religious warriors, fighting for the return of the Catholic faith, or "The true religion" as they called it. To that end they assembled over three tons of gunpowder, packed in 36 barrels, and gradually secreted it in a cellar under the House of Lords, where had the plot succeeded, a "ground zero" would have extended for more than a mile, and killed thousands, including the King and all the aristocracy, who would be attending the opening of Parliament.Catesby's Holy War, or the Gunpowder Plot, as it is now known, has a number of tragic parallels with September 11th and London 7th July, and can be described as a view of the same battleground, from a different hilltop.

Set in Mumbai, India, this epic story explores the heartaches, the joys, the sorrows, the successes, the failures, the passions, the intrigues, and the drugs. It is a story of love and hatred, revenge, and greed. Revenge Is Not a Game exposes the intricate details of the financial world that motivates and influences the game of cricket.A saga of two very strong characters, drawn together by a common ambition to build the biggest financial and management empire at the highest level of sport.However, sudden and tragic circumstances cut deep into their relationship, inextricably drawing them apart to the point they become bitter enemies.Tony de Silva, India's greatest cricketer, retires at the height of his career. All he plans to do is settle down and relax, that is until he meets Leya Raman, a strikingly beautiful woman, and the owner of a successful financial management company. Leya falls in love with Tony, but he has eyes only for her sister, Karma. Dejected and distraught, Leya swears revenge.Two potential tycoons full of testosterone and ambition play out their rivalry, reaching a climax that ultimately destroys one of them.This book should be read just for the sheer brilliance of John Sealey's storytelling ability, which makes readers eager to want to turn to the next page.(About the Author)John Sealey has spent most of his life in London, England, but on retirement from the film and television industry, now lives by the sea in the county of Essex. "In my travels while filming in India and Sri Lanka, I realised cricket was somewhat of a religion with millions following the game, which gave me the idea to write what goes on behind the game."