Bøger udgivet af Tony McManus

Meet James Fallon, founder, and CEO of Global Solutions International. Fallon, an ex-SAS hard man turned bounty hunter for whom nothing is off limits. From sea piracy to black ops he's up for it. Anytime. Anywhere.From its formation in July 1941 until April 1980, most British people had never heard of the Special Air Service Regiment. Its very existence was unknown.Then, on April 30th, terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London. The London police force, the Met, had no answer. The Prime Minister, Margeret Thatcher, handed the task to the military, and they brought in the SAS.Five days later, on May 5th, Brits, along with 300,000,000 people around the world were entertained live on television, as the Special Air Service launched Operation Nimrod and demonstrated their prowess in a 17 minute master class take down of that siege. And everyone in the world became aware that Britain had a Special Forces unit second to none.Then along came the historians and the biographers to spread the word about the SAS, and its feats.And seeing a golden opportunity to exploit this, the fiction writers followed.Having read a lot of SAS adventure thrillers, I've concluded that most writers of these novels paint a false picture of things and show little respect for the great Regiment. Their heroes are invincible bullet proof hard men, with Jack Reacher like characteristics, sent on impossible missions. And in time these formulaic novels become repetitive and boring.This is one of the reasons I wrote "The Sum of Things". Because the SAS reality is somewhat different.Special Air Service troopers are ordinary men who, through intensive training, are capable of extraordinary feats. Training that teaches and instils endurance and resilience. Through this they learn to dare and win and achieve their objectives.They also get to know their limitations, and that's important.Such a man is my protagonist, James Fallon.So I invite you to take a step into reality, it's far more enjoyable and much more satisfying.

JAMES FALLON IN AMERICAOn a long-planned tour.Driving west in a truck.Enjoying himself. Not looking for troubleBut trouble often has its own agenda.Captain Sullivan aimed a broad smile at Fallon and broke the silence. "I did a little reading about you, Mr. Fallon. An interesting life you lead.""It has its moments," Fallon returned the smile. "But don't believe everything. As someone once put it: 'Life often reads better than it lives.'""You're here on a tourist visa?" Sullivan held up Fallon's passport."Yes, that's right.""And inside three weeks of arriving in the United States, you take a combat pistol shooting course at the American Pistol Institute in Arizona. Three weeks later, you go on to shoot three men dead in Colorado. Any comments?"And so a vacation becomes a mission.

Crime pays in Thailand. Big time.Corruption and graft is rampant among its power elites.It's mafias, and family crime clans rule. Thai politicians, police, courts and military brass are in their pockets.Preying on foreigners and ripping off their property is one of the lucrative games they play. And if thevictim fights back, unpleasant things including serious violence, and death befall them.For Ray Coombs the island of Phuket was paradise. He .married a beautiful girl. He built a beautiful home.Life was perfect. Then the bad men came and took it from him. He fought back. What followed wasn't nice.Then Mike Villiers got involved.

Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that it was murder. And he's looking to find the killers.Thirty years is a long time they tell him. It's a cold case. The perpetrators will be dead. They tell him to forget about it, and most people would. But Mike's not a bit like that. He going to Bangkok, the City of Angels and place of his birth with retribution in mind and vengeance in his heart and, other than his life, nothing to lose.