Blood of Your Sisters In the unremitting heat and filth of Angola's illicit diamond mines, more is at stake than the lives of the miners who work there. For Mark Rayner, two weeks into an assignment that leads him from diamonds to the treachery of ivory smuggling and African terrorism, the stakes are too high. But his return to Massachusetts is soon marked by violence and passionate encounters with two women. Ultimately his assignment leads him to a fishing village in Hong Kong and to a desolate rain-swept river in Taiwan-where he must fight not only for his freedom but also for his very life.
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Dark Armada High above the South Pacific, near the remote, jungle-covered Solomon Islands, the sky has twice been torn by explosions severe enough to destroy the cloud cover and disturb the ocean. Only when American engineer Steven Redman looks into the disappearance of a light aircraft in the region and uncovers the technique used to create the explosions, does the reason for them become clearer. But by then, Redman and his newfound investigating partner, journalist Debbie Hinton, have become a threat to nations half a world away - nations in the process of developing a devastating new weapons system. Desperately, Redman and Debbie embark on a race to prevent further destruction - without losing their lives in the process. "Gripping mission is packed with action..... Written like a screenplay, with excellent descriptions, tightly knotted into the minimum or words, DARK ARMADA is a very good read for lovers of action, thrills and adventure with a little romance and betrayal thrown in." Southern Daily Echo (UK)
"DARK ARMADA is an easily read, fast moving mystery that will tantalize the imagination. Its plot uniquely suggests subterfuge among the world's intelligence agencies that are rarely linked in today's stories." Newport Press (USA)
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Covenant of the Poppies From the poppy fields of the Middle East to the backstreets of Europe, two desperate people flee the terrorists trying to silence them
"An author who has proved himself a master of the suspense story." Indiana Tribune
Author of nearly 20 novels, Colin D. Peel once again provides a thrilling rollercoaster ride through international intrigue in Covenant of the Poppies. For Mike McConnell, rural Afghanistan is just one of the sources for the speciality weapons he buys for resale through a large Anglo-American arms company. For an insidious international group of power brokers, though, it provides the means, via opium and heroin, with which to control the destiny of an entire nation. Caught by chance in the middle of this struggle, Mike becomes a target for elimination, and his survival depends on exposing the conspiracy - if he can live that long. "We don't get much adventure fiction from New Zealand, but if Colin D. Peel's book COVENANT OF THE POPPIES is representative of what is going on down there , the loss is ours. The writing is lean and hard, pungent and well organised.....the prose is remarkably contained, McConnell is as laconic as they come, and the author does not try to put fancy words or sentences in his mouth. All the dialogue sounds like real-life speech....." New York Times (USA)
"Those who favour taut, bare-bones thrillers a la Alistair Maclean and Jack Higgins will enjoy the underpublicised Peel's no-frills novels. Plotting is everything here." Booklist (USA)
".....the scenery is a bloody blur, and true love is certain, Colin Peel, an old hand at intrigue, gives German unification a decidedly new twist." New York Daily News (USA)
"This novel reads like an exciting motion picture script and, would, in fact, make a good film for television or Hollywood." Press Observer (USA)
"Peel has mastered one of the fundamentals of thriller writing: keep the action fast and furious." Publishers Weekly
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Atoll Radioactive nuclear testing threatens to destroy a Tahitian atoll - and the entire Pacific ocean!
Among the magical, lush-green islands of Tahiti lies one unlike any other - a coral atoll unchanged on the surface but fatally flawed deep beneath the waters of the South Pacific, a result of 30 years of nuclear testing. In the Hawaiian Islands, English scientist John Carlisle and American Zac Brennan are approached by French Polynesians desperate to alert the world to the threat from radioactive poisons already leaking into the atoll's lagoon. Fighting a French government determined to conceal the truth, Carlisle and Brennan became entangled in a web of violence extending from Hawaii to the French Polynesian Islands. There, only they can stop the plan to cover up the nuclear contamination of the Pacific ocean. "In this tightly written, exciting adventure, New Zealander Peel offers plenty of no-holds-barred violence...for dessert, the author provides a delightful romance." Publishers Weekly (USA)
"ATOLL is a modern book on a very different theme. Well-written, concise, rich in concern over what is happening in the PACIFIC and all over this country." Macon Beacon (USA)
Blood of Your Sisters
Blood of Your Sisters