Bøger af Paul Wheeler

In the early nineteen eighties, Charles Revill was one of four young graduates who become multi millionaires when they joined a New York investment bank at the time computers were being installed to accelerate the growth and value of world wide bond markets. Fifteen years later, one of them is shot dead in a London street and another found hanged in a Rome hotel. With a failed marriage behind him and little else to do but sit alone in his Vermont country mansion, Revill decides to find the reason for their murders and sets out on a perilous journey that takes him to America, England, Italy and Azerbaijan. As he draws closer to the truth he realises he is not only risking his own life but those of his family when he discovers he has entered the underworld of organised crime that is planning to empty all the banks of the developed world.

Devon, England 1805. James Morgan, a 10 year old orphan runs away from a brutal life slaving on a farm. After narrowly escaping the hangman's rope from an incident in a coastal town, he stows away in an American cargo ship heading for Charleston South Carolina. He is soon found but is treated well by the elderly captain who becomes his guardian when he retires from the sea after they disembark. They live for seven years near the Mississippi river where James completes his education and develops a precocious gift of using the English language. When he reaches seventeen years of age, his guardian dies and he moves down river to New Orleans and finds work in a gambling saloon. He meets Harry Parfitt, the disowned son of a millionaire father at the moment he is facing death after having been accused of cheating. Using his skill with words, James persuades the other card players to put away their daggers. From that day, Parfitt refers to James as 'Gentle' Morgan. They have several adventures in the dangerous Swamp area of New Orleans before war breaks out with Great Britain and they have many more when they go to sea to fight the enemy. They are eventually captured and taken to Dartmoor, a notorious prison in England. An American prisoner already there is a massively built black slave called Richard Crafus who has been bribed by the prison governor to report anyone planning to riot or escape, for which the penalty is death. Parfitt and James suffer considerable hardship but make friends with a French prisoner from the Napoleonic wars in Europe and develop an extraordinary plan to break out that relies on taking Crafus with them. Although the escape is successful and they become friends with the huge man who helped them capture a ship, more trouble awaits when they return to America and Crafus is convicted as a runaway slave and arrested to return to the plantation .

For most of its history, British society has been segregated into classes: the ruling class, the working class, and every class in between. If there was flexibility, it existed in the artistic classes, but even there, access to the best schools was reserved to the upper classes. Vertical ascension was never easy.In the aftermath of World War II, things began to change, especially in certain occupations. By the middle 1950s, in spite of his family's working class origins, Paul Wheeler had secured a place in Oxford that afforded him not only a topflight education, but also access to connections that helped pave the way for his success as a screenwriter. At the time, where one was educated was still an important factor in upward mobility. And so was cricket, the gentleman's sport, which, because he excelled at it, garnered Wheeler even more connections.Success in education and sport were only part of the story. In film and television, getting work meant being recommended. And to be recommended, talent was a must and Wheeler had it, but even that came indirectly. Ostensibly working as an analyst for British Intelligence (MI6), he was able to work his government job, teach himself the art of dramatic writing, and use his university connections to secure a top tier literary agent, which allowed him to earn money while he mastered the craft of writing.Of course, all this would have been to no avail, had there not been lots of money available in the emerging medium of television, whose voracious appetite for content drove prices for screenplays and teleplays to new heights during the 1960s.In the 1970s and 80s, Thatcherism opened up the economy even more. British writers went international. Contracts for Wheeler's writing poured in. He wrote every type of story you can imagine for film and TV.Talk about the being in the right place at the right time, Paul Wheeler is a prime example. Had he come up in the 1930s or 40s, chances are he would not have gained access to Oxford. There certainly were no television contracts at the time and cricket might also have been denied him.Paul Wheeler had the ability and, by being in the right place at the right time, he was able to affix his star to the post-war media explosion that led to his financial and artistic success.

Juliana Smythe is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating walk-ins rather than referrals. One day a mysterious young man comes into her office to be treated for impotence and a tendency toward compulsive lying. The analyst becomes hooked on the case and she cures him to the point where he actually stops lying and falls in love with her. Or does he?

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