Patrick Mackeown publishes The Expendability Doctrine, an oil-conspiracy thriller

Patrick Mackeown's first thriller, The Expendability Doctrine, is published by BookScape.

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.

      "Highly recommended" - Midwest Book Review

The novel is available in paperback from leading bookstores in the UK and the US, as well as in eBook format. Find out more

Posted: 1 November 2006

Bookscape launches poetry RSS feed

Users of RSS readers can now subscribe to a feed of Patrick Mackeown's poems, and thus never miss his latest work. Many browsers, such as Firefox, autodetect the feed and let visitors to Bookscape subscribe to it by simply hitting the "subscribe" button in the browser´s toolbar. Or simply input the feed's URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/PoemsByPatrickMackeown into your reader.

Posted: 20 May 2006

Bookscape's web site launches

Bookscape is the online home of the author Patrick Mackeown. It's a place where you can not only find, preview, peruse and buy thrillers which he has written, but also you can see a range of his comic sketches, limericks, jokes and quotes.
Patrick tends to find writing stories about corruption in high places and the global spread of human misery a tad too serious to sustain ad infinitum. Being not too po-faced in his normal approach to life, he tends to see an element of humour in most things, at any rate. Therefore it's only fitting that a website which purports to display his work should show a proportion of this as well.

Posted: 1 April 2006