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‘A head spinning ‘Day of the Jackal’ for the Twenty First century. The pages almost turn themselves’

Roland McMillan is ninety five years old and his doctors see little chance of him making it to ninety six. In 1926 he fled the desperate misery of his life in the mining town of Kirkonnel and emigrated to America. Over seventy nine years he has built up a colossal
family fortune. Now it is time to tidy up his affairs

McMillan's greatest treasure is his gallery of paintings which is reputed to be the most valuable and extensive private collection in the world. He has always known that one day he will bequeath it to the nation. The question he needs to resolve is which nation - Should it be Scotland, the land that bore him? Or should it be America, the land that made him?

His solution is an old fashioned one. The fate of the McMillan collection is to be decided by a game of golf played by modern day gladiators. America's number one golfer will challenge Scotland's number one over Turnberry's majestic Ailsa course for the greatest prize in the history of sport.

George Albright the Third is one of the greatest sportsmen America has ever produced. A world figure. A sporting icon. The undisputed Number One in the world with a fortune fit for a king to his name.

Archie Banks is an unknown. A hard smoking, hard drinking nobody from the notorious Sunnybank estate in Dumfries who is only his country's number one as a result of a fluky streak of results.

The twenty first century version of David and Goliath catches the imagination of the world and sends the lives of both players into chaos. It is an event that everyone wants a piece of. Even the American President will be there to watch.

As the eyes of the world are fixed on the event, unwanted guests plan a dramatic intervention. When the news of the President's intentions reaches Al Quaida, they put in place a plan to assassinate their Target One.

What starts as a great sporting event becomes a gnawing race against time. As the clock ticks down, the fate of the President is decided on a stormy weekend amidst the wild rocks and dunes of the Scottish coast.

‘When the past meets the flames’ The continent of Europe is still divided by a fence that runs from the Baltic Sea to the Swiss border.
Thousands of nuclear missiles in the West are aimed at the cities of the East
And thousands of nuclear missiles in the East are aimed at the cities of the West.
The Cold War rages.

In 1981, Solly Bernstein discovers the last great oil field in the world under the Iraqi desert town of El Kebil,
In 1994, Two British soldiers witness a massacre in a dark Bosnian valley.

Threads.

Danny McCann is a boy with the world at his feet.
He’s fifteen. He’s just been selected for the Scotland Under 16’s football team.
Coaches from big clubs are coming to Dumfries to watch him play.The road to the football dream lies open. But Danny starts to make the wrong choices.

Young people take drugs to get high. That’s the part the see on the T Shirts. Sadly, all too often young people take drugs and find themselves on the Road to Down. Sometimes it leads them all the way down to the place where life doesn’t seem to worth living any more. This book isn’t about the stuff on T shirts. This is about the dark stuff that gets swept away under the carpet. It isn’t warm and fuzzy.

This book is about why people take to the streets and throw stones. Like they did in the eighties. Like they might do tomorrow. Its about how far some people will go when they get angry. And how far other people will go to stop them.’

Lenny’s journey spans the eras. From the burning sun of Orgreave to the killing fields of Iraq. From Reagan to Bush. From Thatcher to Blair. From the Cold War to the War on Terror.

‘A Mersey ‘Gone With The Wind’ that races like a high speed bullet train all the way from Rome 1977 to Istanbul 2005.’

“Putting this book down would be like switching off the TV during the second half in Istanbul. It’s just not an option.”
Ian Callaghan. Liverpool FC legend.

‘A head spinning ‘Day of the Jackal’ for the Twenty First century. The pages almost turn themselves’

'Everyone who has lost a child to heroin will want to be Jack Sinclair. Tragic, thrilling, captivating.'
-Simon Houston, Daily Record.

February 2001. The wind turns to the east, and the Foot and Mouth epidemic starts to rage across South West Scotland. A region already in decline is thrown into catastrophe. Funeral pyres light up the night sky.

"A gripping journey through the past. An alarming view of the present. A terrifying vision of the future."

'Frankland turns crisis into drama.' Sunday Telegraph

November 1997 and British Farming is being ripped apart by the BSE Crisis. Vast areas of the countryside are facing devastation. Finally one man decides that enough is enough.

6000 Asylum Seekers are housed in the giant tower blocks of Sighthill in Glasgow.
A vast unexploded human bomb. The clock is ticking.

"An unrelenting pile driver of a read."

'A fantastic adventure book for all young football lovers - even one as young as me !'
Sir Tom Finney

Once in every generation a great new star emerges into the world of football.
Out of the slums of Sao Paulo came Pele.
Out of the bullet scarred streets of Belfast came Georgie Best
Out of the shanty towns of Buenos Aires came Maradona.