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For over thirty years Mark Simmons has been travelling to the USA to largely explore the background and legacy of the Civil War. It is a strange and often amusing odyssey mostly across the Southern States, a journey of many thousands of miles. Looking for the 'Memories and Echoes' of the Civil War, the event which more than any other has shaped the nation and continues to do so.Mark follows in the footsteps of fellow Brits, fellow travellers, Colonels Henry Fletcher and Arthur Fremantle who witnessed the war first hand. And writers Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray who visited the country prior to and just after the war. There are many other characters, some historical, some fictional, and some contemporary, all with their story to tell, their point to put.The landscape still has the power to haunt with the shattering events branded into its soil. And there are occasions when the echoes seem strong, not mere ghost stories, something stronger than that, the past physically affecting the senses as if the past keeps reinventing itself. The journey starts in Atlanta.

A Royal Marine Commando seven man section, search for EOKA Terrorists in the Troodos Mountains on the sun baked island of Cyprus in 1956. A dangerous business for the Terrorists know the ground better and has the support of a cowed local population. However what they stumble across is altogether different. Its effect shatters their closely honed comradeship and fighting spirit, an élan developed by the young National Servicemen over weeks and months of arduous training. And down the years the find casts a long shadow over them.Years later the two surviving members of the patrol return to Cyprus. One a soldier of fortune, a mercenary, the other shackled to a floundering business and marriage. However both have an appointment with destiny, and find themselves embroiled in the events of the long hot summer of 1974 on the island as bitter warfare between Greek and Turk breaks out.Ancient powers manipulate them and events of 1956 are finally revealed and put to rest.

Bambridge and Lawrence, one an experienced detective fighting his own demons, one a raw rookie trying to prove herself, are brought together to hunt for a killer whose victims are strung up and bled out.Can they put their own personal problems aside as they seek the perpetrator of these horrific murders, or will they be taken to the breaking point by a cold and calculating killer in a city where any innocent person is a potential victim?On the streets, apprehension and fear mount, and the two detectives battle themselves and each other as they desperately seek to bring safety to their city and the killer to justice. Bled Out by Mark Simmons is a tense, psychological thriller that leads the reader on a dark addictive journey into the mind of a criminal, but leaves them wondering, who exactly is the criminal?

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Describes MacLean's extensive Royal Navy war experiences in the Arctic, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.

The first book to explore in detail the link between the work of Ian Fleming at Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and the 007 plots

MI5 agent Rob Nicolson is sent to Spain, he is an IRA target after his last mission. Just sit in the sun, get some R & R until it blows over. There is a small job he can do to pass the time. Look up Commander Styles, an ex-pat, an old Firm agent, raising a stink. It is another 'easy job' that goes wrong as Rob arrives on the Costa del Sol to find Styles dead. Murdered; why and by whom? Rob soon feels he is being manipulated. The only person he can rely on, a young woman of Welsh/Spanish descent, a Flamenco dancer. His dilemma, should he bring her into his dangerous world?

The murky world of the secret service and international terrorism comes to a Cornish seaside village, against a background of Britain, gripped by civil disorder. Divided by the Miners' Strike, and struck by IRA atrocities in 1984. A reluctant heir, Rob Nicolson former Royal Marine Commando, arrives in Cornwall to claim the legacy of 'Kantara' his late aunt's bungalow. A letter and diaries from his dead aunt takes him back to World War II espionage. He begins to investigate and sets in motion a chain of violent events that involve Naval Intelligence, MI5, and the IRA. On the shores of a Californian lake the story reaches its bleak and stunning conclusion. This is the third thriller from the pen of Mark Simmons. His work has been compared to the stories of Desmond Bagley and Alistair MacLean.

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