One last drug bust out of the way and it’s retirement for Sydney Detective Jack Draiton. He now can devote his time to helping his wife, recover from her cancer.

At the end of the day, they’ll set off for Western Australia where they hope an offer of a new, expensive, but unproven treatment will give them more time.

What Jack couldn’t predict was a major cock up by a junior cop that would prevent him from ever returning to New South Wales.

Eve doesn’t make it and Jack, distraught, compensates by hitting the grog.

Five years later, when he’s asked the impossible. He’s reluctant, but there’s too much at stake and he must head back into uncharted territory.

A retired special-forces soldier is set to expose the corruption and decadence of the upper levels of Australian society. The day arrives to present his evidence but there is a glitch and he is ordered to flee to Western Australia, where he finds himself in the frame for the murder of a 14-year-old boy. 

The killer's intended victim is a lawyer about to start a new job with her old boss, a QC known for his success in prosecuting political corruption trials. 

When the counter-terrorism laws are used against her current business partner, she suspects someone other than the elected government is controlling the strings of power, and her past comes back to haunt her.

When the father of a missing scientist asks an aging ex-NSW detective to find her. The last thing the cop expects, is to be dragged through the depraved underbelly of Australian politics.

There is big money at stake for a West Australian billionaire who is a major political sponsor. He has a powerful control over the decisions of government and he expects his plans to stay on track.

With only a few days left to the signing of contracts, any disruption to those plans must be eliminated.

Jack Collins is a happily married father of two and a successful Perth businessman. So why didn’t he return home after a routine interstate conference? And why hasn’t he been seen since?

To find the answers, Jack’s tormented sister-in-law recruits an ex-cop with a dark history. What she gets is not what she expects.

Perhaps the CCTV footage that shows her sister's husband coolly assassinating a Sydney crime boss might provide a clue.

Or it might not.

Perth, Western Australia. The year is 2065 and only one man, who had become a freak of nature, saw the stealthy preparations for the invasion of our world by the strange inhabitants of a distant planet.

Before Magnus Campbell was killed by a terrorist bomb, he had implanted his psych into the quantum code he had developed and while realisation was dawning on the world's scientists, that interstellar travel would be impossible without a break in the light barrier, his avatar had discovered a way.

For Magnus, a trip to Alpha Centauri is no more challenging than the flick of a light switch.

Plausible Deniability is used by governments who choose to hide their actions and intent. It allows them to carry out tasks that might be criminal or on the fringe of legality.

 When an Ex SAS Soldier, Bob Clayton, is called upon for a mission he knows this will be the case. He leaves Australia, at short notice, under false papers and allows himself to be press-ganged into the Russian Navy. So secretive is his mission, he can tell no one of his objectives.

 What he cannot count on is his daughter and his lover banding together to lodge the missing person report that motivates a smart cyber cop with a terrier like attitude, to follow his trail.

 His mission, under the auspices of MI6, is to sabotage two specially fitted Russian nuclear submarines with the intent of causing maximum embarrassment to Russia and distract them from the War in Ukraine.

But the USA has other ideas.

Clark Shipton, once a notorious Western Australian with a racist past, lost his daughter Kaitlin to a kidnapper when she was just 12 years old. She is his only remaining family following the murder of his wife but when an unexpected friendship with an Indigenous police officer leads to the dismantling of a major human trafficking network, it sparks new hope that Kaitlin might be found.  

The media attention attracts two ex-soldiers who specialize in what they call "Recoverance." They’ve located Kaitlin in a Bosnian brothel, where she is now a heroin addict and not yet sixteen. Despite the eye-watering cost, Shipton hires them and pays a hefty deposit.  

The mission to bring her home is complex, but it will become even more challenging when Kaitlin refuses to leave without her two friends. Further complications arise as the WA Police launch a covert investigation into their own internal corruption that facilitated the original trafficking ring.  

The lives of Kaitlin, and her friends are placed at greater risk given they may be privy to evidence.

Global warming has reached a tipping point.

The President of the United States believes the world will be a better place if split, north and south, by an imaginary border that protects the wealth of his powerful friends from a resource hungry world. Imported goods will have massive tariffs, with technology exports equally overpriced, and all immigration will be banned.

While the planet starves, a pandemic takes its toll and nuclear war looms. The imaginary border, known as The Second Meridian, is only one part of his plan. Another is to send hundreds of handpicked elites into space, to orbit in pods for the duration of the impending war, before returning to rebuild.

One pod inadvertently leaves orbit, and with nowhere to go, the crew—five males and five females—must make the best of their supplies or take the self destruct option. As they enter deep space the nuclear war erupts, and they cannot return.

With gravity drawing them closer to the sun, they must ponder their fate.

What freak of nature will help them survive?

When Syrah Barberra took an infill job before uni, it turned into a three year gap. She was then a talented student who has since added MMA to her skills. Her short term money spinner, a once in a lifetime challenge, is now history and her scholarship at a leading university college can begin.

With stars in her eyes, and on her first international flight, she's unaware that the passenger in the next seat will play a part in her future. What happens makes for a shaky start, but it leads to friendship with a cop who understands her point of view.

As their relationship grows, and her studies progress, the lessons learned in her gap prove useful and she’s swept into a secretive police world.

A world where cops spy on cops

Tom Gregory is a young man on the cusp of a promising basketball career until he is charged with the murder of his young and attractive tutor.

The evidence seems stacked against him and when disowned by his family, the only one who believes in him is his inexperienced lawyer. Her failure, and his subsequent life sentence, will haunt her for the next ten years until the mysterious deaths of people involved in his case lead to a new line of investigation.

When evidence of a human trafficking cabal comes to light, it opens a new avenue to overturn his conviction on appeal and free him.

Will it be enough?

Syrah Barberra achieved success in her first overseas trip.

Recruited into the police force while she powered to her degree in law. She rose rapidly through the ranks, via the machinations of a man she believed she could trust, to become engaged in an investigation into deep state corruption.

She surpassed all expectations but when two governments and a criminal organisation send their best to hunt her down, she becomes the quarry of those who corrupt.

Three to one are heavy odds.

A selection of weird, wild and wacky short stories, that are guaranteed to be free from political correctness, but not traces of tree nuts, peanuts, pineapples, lactose, gluten, and gratuitous sexual inferences.

As there is no guarantee that this book has not been printed using machinery that may have been used for the processing of tree nuts and peanuts, or products containing lactose or gluten. The author recommends that readers with allergies of any kind clad themselves in hazmat bodysuits, constructed using non allergenic materials, and equipped with the appropriate breathing apparatus.

Syrah Barberra returns to Perth with expectations of joining the legal practice of an old friend and becoming a proper mother to her first child. The friend has a different understanding and when offered a specialist position by the Police Commissioner, Evan Watkins, she's reluctant.

Pregnant with her second child, she knows she will be available for only two or three months, but Evan is undeterred. He knows her skills and needs an outsider, a clean skin, to clear up a corrupt mess on his patch.

She takes the job, on the understanding that she will have a free hand, and that when her time draws close, she will be released from her obligations.

What follows takes her back to her childhood and opens her eyes to the true nature of those she reveres the most.

It’s 2055 and Western Australia has long since seceded from the Commonwealth to become an independent republic. It seemed like a good idea back then, but with changes to the constitution, following a rigged referendum, a one party state has emerged.

Now, only those with corporate or political citizenship have rights, and all challengers are financially destroyed by a corrupted judiciary.

Syrah Barberra wanted nothing more than a quiet life until they killed her family. Now twenty years later, technology has advanced and her time has come to fight back and restore the status quo. Supported by a mysterious reincarnation of, Magnus, her long dead husband, she calls on the help of some old friends.

Syrah Barberra has never been a proper copper.

Fired up the ranks to help a bent cop get his way she has become the fall guy. The bigger they are the harder they fall and the greater the diversion for the corrupt top cops who have appointed her in the expectation of failure.

For the last five years she has been the hunted quarry of two governments and merciless criminals.

Now alone, but for her daughter, a constant reminder of a brief moment of happiness, and a few trusted friends in support. The times have changed. The tables are about to be turned and a chance meeting on a train helps her focus her mind.

She will become a bird of prey and hunt down those who have tormented her, and cruelly eliminated the people she loved. She must win.

Or die in the attempt.