DUNBAR SELF DEFENCE

  Barry Eisler’s new book Fault line is every inch as good as we have come to expect from this great author (interviewed here).  

You are captured from the opening line, “The last thing Richard Hilzoy thought before the bullet entered his brain was, Things are really looking up.

However this is not just another story of covert black operations run by secret government agencies, it takes us deep into the psyche of two feuding siblings and the events that bind them to one another, sometimes painfully.

Murder, corruption and intrigue all play their part as the story goes full circle reaching it’s final climatic end.

THE THINKING FAN’S GUIDE TO MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

Coming soon this great new book for all fight fans, from the pen of Lito Angeles  Lito has been studying the martial arts for over thirty years and trained with many famous instructors, his experience and knowledge will make this book an instant best seller. Available for pre-order now at Amazon , this is one not to be missed.

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Readers may be interested in the book which has been in the works for some time. Working with Warriors covers Dennis Martin’s training in Karate, then Close-quarter Combatives, as well as working on nightclub doors with Terry O’Neill and Gary Spiers.
Tery O’Neill captained the World Championship winning British Karate Team, and was rated by Black Belt Magazine as “The toughest man on Planet Earth”.
Gary Spiers worked on nightclubs in Australia before spending several years training in Karate in Japan. He then settled in Great Britain where he became a legend in front-line security.The book then goes on to discuss his work in VIP Close-protection, then training bodyguards in Europe, RSA and USA.
There are several interviews in the book, including one specially done with Terry, and another with Tommy Mac, who was the guy who started Terry on the door of the famous Cavern Club, and who trained with him in grappling.
Working with Warriors has an introduction by Geoff Thompson
Chapters include:
1 The Beginner
2 The Karate Kid
3 The Victoriana
4 Gary Spiers Part I
5 Tom McNally?
6 The Top Rank
7 Japan
8 Minding Miss World
9 Close Protection
10 Training Bodyguards
11 The Quad
12 The Paradox
13 Murder Capital/The Unit
14 The Maori II
15 The Gutterfighters
16 Fight-winning Techniques
17 Old School, New Rules
18 Gary the GynaecologistWorking with Warriors has numerous photographs: 

This is a novel, based on a true story, but with fictional elements as well.  For the new 20th Anniversary edition, I made 200-300 edits - revisions and clarifications - and added a new Afterword that tells the story of the book’s early life, death, and rebirth.  I wrote it to inspire, uplift, and to remind readers of life’s bigger picture and higher promise - but not as a practical guide for life. For such guidance, I found it necessary to write a series of non-fiction books.

This is not a sequel - it does not begin where my first book ends (and this has confused some people). Rather, it takes place within the first story (when Socrates sends me away on my travels).  In fact, one good way to read these two books is to read Way of the Peaceful Warrior until Soc sends Dan away to travel around the world - then read Sacred Journey - and then finish Way of the Peaceful Warrior. This way it makes more sense.

I devoted four years of my life to writing Socrates’ story, to finally answer the many questions I’ve received over the years about where he came from, whether he was married or had children, and how he became a warrior and found wisdom and peace. I set out to meet the challenge of writing a novel with depth and character and heart, and believe I’ve succeeded. It is different from Way of the Peaceful Warrior — I had no desire to try to clone my first book. It may contain fewer didactic teachings, but has a far deeper story. I hope my readers will agree.

Dale miller (No other option) and Charley Payne (Warrior in the shadows) come together in this latest offering from author Marcus Wynne, they must work together to protect a traumatised soldier who had been held prisoner and is now the only link they have to a deadly terrorist threat against the U.S. until his secrets can be revealed he must be kept alive, something that two young blonde female assassins are determined will not happen.

.Alan Beckett

The man who was soon to be eaten had enjoyed a superb supper. 

That was the first line of this novel which captures the imagination from the outset.

Ex CIA operative Charley Payne finds himself caught up in the hunt for a very different type of assassin, a hunt that gets more deadly as it gets more personal and takes Payne from his home in the U.S. to the Australian outback in an intriguing game of cat and mouse.

Alan Beckett

In this the first novel by author Marcus Wynne we are introduced to the character of Dale Miller, member of the elite covert government project, Dominance Rain, his mission to track down and kill his old friend and ex-team member Johnny Maxwell a deadly operator who has turned bad and is on the run in middle America leave a trail of bodies behind him, each man is well aware of the others capabilities which only serves to heighten the excitement in a ruthless game of winner takes all.

Alan Beckett

Plot outline: Chris Benson idolizes his older brother, Gavin, a seasoned bank robber. He aspires to be like him in every way and moulds his whole personality around armed robbery so that this is all he lives for. He holds normal working people (or plebs, as he calls them) in contempt and tries to ape Gavin without truly understanding what it is that makes him tick. When Gavin gets sentenced to 15 years in prison, Chris steps into his boots and tries to take over as head of a small crew of blaggers. He complicates things further by having an affair with Heather, Gavin’s wife, while neglecting his own treacherous, money-grabbing, adulteress partner, Debbie. A mistake that could cost him his life.

I found this to be a very entertaining story, a book that I picked up and got immersed in straight away, the main character is a bank robber but he just comes across as an ordinary bloke, I found it quite witty in places it gave me a few laughs and yet it was still down to earth, a nice change from some of the more serious things that I have read recently.

.Alan Beckett