Bøker av Michael Biswell

War has returned Jason is stuck in the boredom of convoy duty traveling the seas of the world while his wife and mistress continue their liaisons. Recalled to serve in the Admiralty assisting the second secretary with intelligence matters he is restricted in London dealing with his business interests and family problems. London is a dirty and very violent place where physical force is sometimes more important than any others.

Recovering in London Jason enjoys the company of prostitutes, theatre and good food, building up his strength for a return to war. Commisioned he is appointed to a frigate where tensions run high, the death of his captain and senior lieutenants leaves him in command, a good prize is captured, and on arrival in Jamaica he is appointed to the command of a schooner, an ideal craft for an ambitious officer, an heir to a subtantial fortune means parents wish to make their daughters available and he becomes embroiled with two sisters, one of whom he later marries. Raids on Spanish territory and captures of privateers increase his wealth, setting up a mistress in Kingston with who he has a number of children, due to long absences his wife and mistress become emoitionally entangled.

A couple of jobs to clean up the bureaucracy after getting injured and then a very dangerous assignment bringing about change on the world stage a step up from a murderous dictatorship and afterwards people seeking revenge for being ignored as a gun follows him but his wealth increases.

A wounded junior officer serving on a frigate arrives in London for rest and recuperation and the vices of the city, later appointed as third lieutenant on a frigate heading to Jamaica he brings the ship in as the surviving officer with a large prize. He is given command of a schooner in the assault of Omoha and reaps the reward of Spanish plate from an already wealthy background he becomes even richer in a time when capitalism runs wild.

James Blackstock, a very wealthy individual with a social conscience who studied as a doctor and surgeon while developing as a person, married to a very ambitious wife who has political and financial desires bringing property and industrial enterprises under her control and with loose morals who drives her husband along a similar path, in times of war he leaves for a command in Egypt to drive the French from that country and learning of the ancient times in that country dominated by the river Nile. While Britain grew as an industrial power.

You know how it is the world is a wonderful place, life is going along wonderfully even though your girl friend has just tried to kill you but things could be worse. You get your feet on the ladder, ambition is desirable some people get left behind and some get hurt but you keep rising higher and higher and then you fall deep into the chasm. Politicians they are wonderful until they arrange to have you killed then perhaps they are not so wonderful.

The Honourable East India company is facing bankruptcy trade with China is taking vast amounts of bullion out of the country and the only product they will purchase for silver is opium. Jason makes a deal with government and company a Viscountcy and a licence for a new Indiaman and all he has to do is put his life and mental wellbeing on the line as his wife and mistress play fast and loose in London

Stanley is now in the army after being persuaded by his mother that this was his safest option as the other was a rope around his neck and now trained to a peak of perfection doing the job he has grown into. Used by the powers that be he removes unpleasant and stupid people who cause trouble. He now works for Mr Edmundson his civil servant controller and is teamed with a female operative. His operations take him around the world dealing with intruige, danger, politics and murder especially in America here he kills a mafia family in New Jersey. A Canadian job leaves him stranded in the wilderness and for a while he is presumed dead much to the joy - which is short lived- of a US Department, revenge can be sweet but only if fulfilled. He still runs the prostitution racket in London looking after the girls interests and well being and provides protection to Gillian who is still the jealous love who still wants control of him.

London in the early 1930's A pretty young woman with a child in tow arrives here from Norwich, destitute, no social no caring government, you were on your own in those days, she had sold her body to survive before and that was her only skill but she needed help, Diane Saunders was her name.A chance encounter with a young policeman helped both of them in their chosen professions he to rise in the ranks and she to make money to feed her son.A bookmaker, a major player in the gambling and crime operations took her under his wing developing her skills to kill his rivals and then as war approached recruited by the government for her special skills, all the while Stanley her son was growing into a violent and criminal life style, taking all the hard knocks and fighting while his "Aunty" Violet showered him with love and affection as he grew into a young man.