Bøker av Daniel Fludgate

Set against a present-day backdrop of civil unrest in Africa, 'The Last Elephant Hunter' is a story about two families, one black, one white, whose lives interweave over a period of two years as the disorder worsens.In unflinching plot-driven prose, the story moves from an attack on Winsbert and Elizabeth Collins' farm by Chakijane and Jacob Gabanya during the early days of simmering tensions, to a period two years later when the country is in a state of complete chaos and fragmentation. The Collins and Gabanya families continue to collide with each-other during this escalation, testing whether compassion can prevail over political ruptures.Racial division, the ethics of hunting, sexual violence and child soldiers as weapons of war - these relevant, contemporary themes crisscross with a young man's explosive journey into manhood, and a mother's desperate search for her missing son, despite the horrifying consequences of her defiance and bravery.

'Torchlight in Berlin' is the second book in the Dmitri Romanov adventure-thriller series.It's 1933, and Hitler has just become chancellor of Germany. Prince Dmitri Romanov, a playboy and member of the exiled Russian royal family, is encouraged by his father to go to Berlin to help his childhood friend, Pasha, who has become an enemy of the Nazis. Once in Berlin, Dmitri is asked by both the French secret service and a Chinese Triad gang to steal a file containing information which could stop the rise of Hitler. The playboy prince has to feign sympathy with the Nazi beliefs he despises, not just to secure access to the file and save Europe from a dangerous regime, but to rescue his friends from the horrors of a new German Reich.Old communist enemies become unlikely bedfellows, and those Dmitri trusts betray him, as he tries to escape Gestapo torturers for the safety of Paris.

'A Former Person' is a man-on-the-run novel set in 1932; it is the first in a multi-book series feature Prince Dmitri Romanov.Dmitri is asked by the leader of The Hongmen, a Chinese Triad organised crime gang, to return to Russia and rescue a White Army general who's needed to lead a rebel army gathering in Manchuria. Dmitri agrees, but is pursued across Europe by Bolshevik spies. Once in Russia, he discovers there is much more to the mission than he'd been told.This is a compelling historical adventure-thriller, following in the great tradition of John Buchan, Eric Ambler, and Geoffrey Household. It's a story of one man's escape set in the underworld of inter-war international espionage.

It's 1972, and Alexei Dimichenko is a young, ideological KGB officer with growing doubts about the system he serves. When on a routine surveillance operation in Moscow, he sees his lover meeting with an American spy, leaving Alexei with a dreadful choice to make. He chooses his country, betraying his lover, but this decision accidentally embroils Alexei in the ORCHESTRA plot, a secret bi-lateral plan between hard-liners in the Politburo and the White House who want to bring an end to détente.As foreigners flood into Moscow for the Canada-Soviet hockey series, Alexei is unsure of who to trust as he embarks on a dangerous voyage of discovery about the system he has served and the people closest to him. With the final match in the hockey series approaching, Alexei realises that he is the only person who can stop a new freeze in the Cold War.This is a gritty tale of secrets and betrayal, both political and personal, with Alexei cast as a reluctant and unlikely hero.

America, 1881. The north-western frontier, where old sins cast long shadows. The consequences of Robert Rathbone's vicious betrayal of a fellow soldier, fifteen years before, resurface just as he's about to stand for the first election to be held in the new settlement of Buffalo, Wyoming. Rathbone has spent the years since leaving the army building a ruthless reputation across the American Northwest. His pursuit of power, wealth, and status are all driven by his desire to acquire the one thing that has eluded him since that earlier time, and the reason for his treachery: the love of Josie 'Sugar' Dunaway. Shadows from the past track Rathbone to Buffalo, a town where two-fisted men and street-savvy women survive by the strength of their wits, and the speed of their guns. A Dixie bounty hunter, an English nobleman's son in exile, and a cow-hand with changeable allegiances, complicate each character's pursuit of their own goal. 1881 demonstrates the power of envy and love, betrayal and revenge, set against a backdrop of the American frontier, where life is played out in the raw, and where the land and its people were transformed into an enduring country and distinct American character.