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CREATOR OF THE KELSO SERIES
JO CALMAN
An Alchemist's Tale, the latest novel from Jo Calman, is out now!
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THE KELSO BOOKS
Julia Kelso, Mel Dunn and Alan Ferdinand are drawn together by a loathing of corruption and injustice. The Kelso series charts their battles with their enemies and follows them as their trust, friendship (and more) grows.
An Alchemist's Tale - Out Now!
ISBN 979-8-8602-5354-4
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Julia Kelso returns to London after an extended absence and she is immediately pressed into service by MI6. MI6 and its trusted economists are predicting a disastrous surge in the size and importance of the world’s burgeoning illicit economy, so much so that national economies could be brought crashing down. Kelso’s mission, with Mel Dunn and Alan Ferdinand, is to infiltrate a sophisticated global money laundering operation that involves the Italian mafia. Previous efforts to find a way into the laundering operation have ended with fatalities and failure. Success will be an inside understanding of how the operation works and who is behind it, but at what cost? It all depends on Ferdinand, who is at the sharp end facing the unknown and taking on criminals who have a ruthlessness he has never experienced before.
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CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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More to follow......
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A Transfer of Power
ISBN-979-8-5594-3375-2
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For a first novel, this was great story-telling which gripped my attention from page 1. The characters were very well developed; I cared about what happened to them, so really pleased there is a plan for further books. Having a good plot is one thing but being able to transcribe it into a good, coherent story, that makes the reader want to keep turning the pages is quite another. But this book achieves that. It also had a really good ending. I loved it.
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AG, Buckinghamshire
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A Price for Mercy - Out Now!
ISBN 979-8-6709-6738-9
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A spiralling number of drug related deaths lead Julia Kelso to the conclusion that highly toxic cocaine has been stolen from government safe storage and selectively fed back to the public. Kelso needs to find out who is doing this and why. It becomes a race against time to stop the desperate and corrupt people responsible, and Ferdinand wants them to pay a heavy price for their avarice.
The latest crime thriller novel by Jo Calman
An Inner Circle - Out Now!
ISBN 979-8-5520-3802-2
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Commander Julia Kelso is not convinced that an apparent suicide in North London is what it seems. She launches an investigation, only to have it obstructed at a higher level. She digs further and uncovers a terrible trade in human beings, driven by cynical corruption. But this time the corruption is close to home – very close!
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An Undeclared Contest - Out Now!
ISBN 979-8-4974-2265-8
As past events catch up and close in, Commander Julia Kelso and her friends find themselves fighting for their lives. Only this time their unseen enemy is calling the shots, hiding in the darkest recesses of the internet. Under attack from all sides, Kelso and the team don’t know where the next threat will come from, or who their next enemy will be. It could all end in triumph, disaster or prison.
Or in death.
Fact-based cold war drama by Jo Calman and
Casey J Smith
VIKTOR - Out Now!
In the early 1980s the world was on the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. Trust between the USA and the Soviet Union was at an all-time low; suspicion and fear ruled. Each side believed that the other was planning an imminent surprise attack. Viktor Gumnov, a KGB officer with a background in marine science, is sent on a secret mission to Washington charged with the task of finding a way in which the Soviet Union could defeat America and the West.
Based on a true story, Viktor is a tale of high-stakes espionage as it really happened, and of how a potential global catastrophe was averted. It is a story of courage and ingenuity, morality, and of the eternal quest for understanding.
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