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About the Author

John is an English speaking South African of Irish and German heritage, He is married to Myra, who is British, and they have three children, two in Australia and one in the UK.

He is happily retired and thus finally has enough time to sit in front of a laptop and write. He and Myra, live in a cottage in an estate that is surrounded by a sub-tropical forest in Kwazulu Natal, a coastal province in South Africa. His stories tend to take place in the UK or the USA. He has spent a fair amount of time in both places, mainly the South of England and the East Coast of the USA. He has relatives in Australia, the UK and North America.

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Science Fiction Themes in my Books

In my first Sci-Fi book, The Dimension Man, the protagonist can move at will into an infinitely close parallel dimension and using this ability is able, obviously, to be very useful to law enforcement agencies. The story takes place in the present time and does not involve anything else that could be classified as science fiction. I decided to make it book one in a series of the same name.

Rewired, my second novel, has the hero able to read minds and even to use his mind to greater effect as the story develops. Once again, crime fighting is involved, and the protagonist’s special ability is the only science fictional component. So the first two books may not appeal to readers who prefer an element of fantasy in what they read.

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Beyond The Brink was my third book and sees the introduction of aliens. They are gently introduced into the story when the hero saves two alien children who are stranded in a wilderness area. As the story progresses and contact with the mother ship, which is actively seeking the children, is made, aliens and alien technology play a huge role in the story’s outcome. This is book one of the planned Alien Spring series.

The Time Dimension is the second book in The Dimension man series, and Joe, our hero, is once again called upon by a law enforcement agency. Only this time in order to pursue the villian into the past, he has to master another dimension, The Time Dimension. This series will continue and the reader is given a clue as to what the next one will be.

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NEMESIS is a short Novel which I wrote a few years ago. It is an action adventure story and is not science fiction.

HERE’S A TASTE

‘What a mess.’ He thought. By now Sophie would be beside herself. Probably the whole family knew. He’d been gone for a day and a night. They’d think that he’d been hijacked and that he’d been killed and his body dumped. It happened all the time. When someone went missing like this, there was usually no hope. His emotions welled up inside him as he worried about her. She’d feel deserted and alone. He’d never missed her more than now.

He looked at the eastern horizon and watched in wonder as the sky lightened. He had seen it before, but not often. As daybreak encroached upon his hill he started to take in his surroundings, it was as he recalled it, the top of a hill, giving him a view of the surrounding bush veld and adjacent hills. The immediate terrain was rocky with boulders, like the one he now occupied, dotted about.

With a start, he saw that someone was sitting behind one of the bigger ones, only his head visible above it. But there was no mistaking the shape of a human head. Samuel. It had to be Samuel. They’d left him here too. He moved across and stepped around the stone. His breath was taken away by the sight before him. Samuel sat with his head back against the rock, clotted blood running down from behind and soaking his shoulders where they touched the stone. His face was distorted by a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead and his eyes were open and clouded in death.

He stepped back, aghast. ‘Oh my god.’ He thought, ‘How could they do this?’ An innocent man had died for no reason other than that he’d been in their way. Without looking at Samuel he moved back to his boulder and sat down again.

For a while he was so traumatized that he couldn’t think to plan. His mind went in circles and he was paralyzed by fear. The game had changed. The stakes were immeasurably higher. Now it was definitely life or death. There was not going to be a laugh and a walk-away now.

‘I can’t just sit here.’ He thought, ‘I’m like a rabbit caught in the headlights. A sitting duck.’ In a sudden bout of panic, he cast his eyes about the surrounding landscape looking for signs of them. There was nothing. But that didn’t mean that they weren’t there. They could be watching from any of a dozen vantage points.

‘Shit. I’ve got to get control of myself.’ He thought and got to his feet. ‘What would they expect?’

‘They would expect me to run.’ He told himself and looked around for the obvious escape routes. The one they’d come up from the road was, at first sight, the easiest way off the hill. It was mainly unobstructed and slope was steady and gentle. And on top of that, he knew that it lead to the track. ‘I won’t go that way.’ He thought.

Then he caught sight of Samuel again and his throat closed in remorse even though he’d had nothing directly to do with the man’s death. He moved until he was standing in front of the dead man again and forced himself to take in every detail. He told himself everything about the scene so that it was burnt into his memory. If he lived, they would pay.

THE TIME DIMENSION

This Book is my latest release and is available on the four platforms that I use as well as through my Gumroad shop. It is a high adventure story which involves the protagonist (hero) having to stop a fanatical terrorist from changing the future in a way that would cause changes made to the past to cascade up to the present time with devastating effect. It is book two of the DIMENSION MAN series and so that readers can catch up with book one at minimal cost, THE DIMENSION MAN is available on Apple, Amazon, Google Books and Kobo at USD 0.99 or the equivalent elsewhere in the world. THE TIME DIMENSION, THOUGH, WILL BE ON A LIMITED NO CHARGE OFFER AS SOON AS ENOUGH INTEREST IS SHOWN BY EMAILED RESPONSE. EVERYONE ON MY EMAIL LIST WILL BE GIVEN ADVANCE NOTIFICATION.

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