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This book is entitled, 'Innocent on the Run.'
The first chapter is written from experiences
that my friend Brian and I had when trailing
around the docks in Barry in the early 1950's,
trying to get jobs on ships. We wanted adventure, we wanted to travel. I didn't get away to sea then, but the longing was there and I eventually spent nearly forty two years going to sea in ships, on rigs and on barges.
A young boy’s burning ambition to go to sea is
realised when he is offered a place on a vessel
sailing to America. He gets drunk at a party thrown by American boys and his ship sails without him. To avoid the authorities, who he thinks will jail him as an illegal immigrant he goes on the run. He is kidnapped, forced to help in a bank robbery, and threatened with death. He manages to escape his captors, taking their loot with him, but is chased across Texas as he flees for his life. Attempted murder, robbery, shipwreck, and the love of a beautiful senorita keepthe adventure racing to its conclusion.

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The National heroes
Danny and Shorty are drafted to a destroyer after their basic training at H.M.S. Raleigh.
The National Servicemen are resented on board by regulars who have to
serve a minimum of seven years, while the 'National Heroes,' as they are called, serve only two. This leads to friction and violence. Their ship is ordered to Suez
when the crisis with the Canal begins, and the two young matelots are projected
into the fighting. Humour, love, and war are in abundance in this insight into the Royal Navy in the 1950's.


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White Slaves


Kidnapped, crated up like animals and shipped out to the Middle East, three beautiful English
women will be sold into slavery. It's up to Hislop to rescue them. Hislop the vastly overweight private detective,
hater of violence, hater of anything which smacks of danger to himself. Reluctant to help but forced into it by circumstances.
Raza the psychopathic Arab who threatens to make Hislop a eunuch, terrifying
the life out of the big detective. Lee the suspect terrorist who befriends them
and promises to help them escape their captors. Can he be trusted? Lies, deceit, false promises, murder.
Their ordeal seems never ending.


 
 
 
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