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Hi,
and welcome to deric barry fiction books. If you want
to read
terrific fiction books on travel, adventure and humour, this is the
place
for you. As well as my fiction books you will find links to my
work on other sites where you can read dozens of my articles
on
non-fiction topics such as history,technology and my favourite
hobby, cooking.
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.
Read a chapter
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.
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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