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"Highly recommended" - Midwest Book Review
An oil conspiracy thriller with global dimensions. Intelligent, readable, and guaranteed to get the grey matter going.
In the midst of an international oil crisis, Keith Connors, a British industrialist is murdered. In accordance with procedures the police investigate his family and acquaintances. The professional nature of Keith's killing is never in doubt. However, when the victim's wife absconds, a pattern of sinister events unfolds.
The Expendability Doctrine races on a roller-coaster thrill ride across the globe - from the East Coast of Britain, to the horrors of deaths in Libyan gaols - in an extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of global concern.
Ode To a Wartorn Land
In Palestine early feet were Canaanites
Archaeologists study ancient Ugarit rights
As Cananaum, scholars recall that land
Of cana'ani, their word for a merchant
Jericho City where civilisation started
Mankind's famed fountain for selling salt
Bronze-Age Jericho's walls reached heaven
So massive that no man ever scaled them
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Find out about Patrick Mackeown and BookScape. You can also contact the author here and learn about the development of BookScape, announcements of forthcoming thrillers, etc. View
Entertaining short stories and satire. Download the full version for free. View
In my thrillers, I am trying my best to blur the lines between fact and fiction, into what I jokingly refer to as "faction". My job as a writer is to scare people, and I don't want to let my readers off the hook with the age-old, convenient get-out of 'of course, it's only fiction!' View
These comic sketches were always meant to make people laugh. Other than that, there is no reason for them. If you find them funny please share them with your friends. You can download them for free as pdfs. View
Why not have a laugh at quotes from Yogi Bara, Groucho Marx and others. Or browse our George W Bush gallery. Or learn about Nigerian con-artists who got conned themselves. View
View all thrillers by Patrick Mackeown. They are available in paperback and eBook format from a range of retailers. View
The Expendability Doctrine
A thriller by Patrick Mackeown
"Highly recommended"
Midwest Book Review
