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Other books by Terry Morgan

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An Old Spy Story

The old spy in An Old Spy Story is octagenerian Oliver “Ollie” Thomas. During a long career spent trying to earn an honest living with his own export business, Ollie was also, reluctantly, carrying out parallel assignments in Africa and the Middle East only loosely connected to British Intelligence. But, by using threats and blackmail, his controller Major Alex Donaldson was forcing Ollie to help run his own secret money-making schemes that included arms shipments to the IRA through Gadaffi and Libya, money laundering in Africa, and assassination.

Now aged eighty-six, recently widowed, and alone, Ollie still struggles with guilt and anger over his past and decides to make one last attempt to track down and deal with Donaldson.

“A masterful tale by someone who knows exactly what he is writing about.”

“A wonderful and moving love story from an elderly man’s perspective is beautifully woven into it, and the ending is masterful.”

“I enjoyed it—exciting, endlessly beguiling, and fun.”

“Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. A remarkable book from a writer who has clearly been there and done it. Easy reading.”

Whistleblower

Vast amounts of international aid money are being stolen by those at the heart of the political establishment. Ex-politician Jim Smith, threatened and harassed into fleeing abroad for his accusations of the fraud, secretly returns to renew his campaign. A realistic thriller covering events in the USA, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and a sensitive study of a stubborn and talented man who steadfastly refuses to fit into the stereotype of a successful businessman and a modern politician.

“Highly convincing. This could all be happening right now. Another realistic and highly entertaining story.”

“This book has the sort of political intrigue that captivates viewers of shows like House of Cards, but the main man is actually a decent person in Whistleblower. As someone who prefers protagonists on the correct moral side of the spectrum, it made the book that much more enjoyable (AMAZON).

“Whistleblower by Terry Morgan, is an international thriller that stretches from England to Thailand with many stops in between.”

“The plot centers around the timely topic of international aid money and the criminals who feed on it. The hero, the story’s whistleblower, is British ex-politician Jim Smith, and the story follows him around the globe as he seeks to put a stop to the corruption.”

“Morgan, a world traveller who now resides in Thailand, knows his locations well. Cities in Italy and Africa come alive, and Jim Smith’s home in off-the-beaten-path Thailand is wonderfully described, allowing readers to feel like they’re there. This is no easy thing to do, and the authenticity of the various settings is a real strength of the book.”

“Another strength includes the protagonist. Smith is not a typical hero. He’s older and lacks the suaveness and action-hero credentials of a James Bond or Jason Bourne, but he more than makes up for it with his intelligence and depth. A big pleasure in the book is being invited into this man’s life as he tries to pick up the pieces after an underhanded campaign aimed at ruining him.”

“The plot moves along briskly, and the technology, players (politicians, intelligence agencies, criminals), and small details about the finance industry all add up to a novel that’s rich in credibility and intrigue. Anyone interested in seeing the world from the comfort of a good armchair should read Morgan’s book” (AMAZON).

An Honourable Fake

At age fourteen, Femi Akindele, an orphaned street boy from the Makoko slum in Lagos, Nigeria, decided to call himself Pastor Gabriel Joshua. Unqualified and self-taught and now in his mid-forties, Gabriel has become a flamboyant, popular, and highly acclaimed international speaker on African affairs, economics, terrorism, corruption, and the widespread poverty and economic migration that results.

Gabriel wants changes, but in his way lie big corporations, international politics, and a group of wealthy but corrupt Nigerians financing a terrorist organisation, the COK, with one purpose in mind—the overthrow of the democratically elected Nigerian president and the establishment of a vast new West African state.

On Gabriel’s side, though, are his loyal boyhood friend Solomon, a private investigator of international corporate fraud, and the newly appointed head of the Nigerian State Security Service Colonel Martin Abisola.

“A rare sort of political thriller—a black African hero.”

“Accomplished and knowledgeable—a class follow up to Whistleblower.”

Vendetta

An eccentric, untidy Oxford University professor of biology Eddie Higgins has become the scientific adviser to a local cosmetics company run by its new and vivacious chief executive Isobel Johnson. It doesn’t begin well. “Yours is an industry dogged by exaggerated claims, impossible claims, and false claims,” he tells her. With locations moving between the UK, Thailand, and Malaysia, this is the third book in the Asher & Asher series with a new recruit to the team, Ritchie Nolan, a black dreadlocked dropout from a North London drama school whose job is to infiltrate Russian and Chinese gangs involved in counterfeiting, money laundering, and drug smuggling.

The Malthus Pandemic

A virologist with extreme views on population control has created a new virus, Malthus A, in a plot to help spread the virus in return for profits from treatments and counterfeit drugs. But can Mark Dobson from international commercial crime investigators Asher & Asher persuade politicians and international crime agencies to act to stop the spread?

It is the first book in the Asher & Asher series.

Prisoners of Conscience and Circumstance

Set around the year 2050 when overpopulation is causing food and energy shortages, mass unemployment, social tension, and civil conflict. An ex-politician and professor of biology talks to a grandson no longer able to cope with life in an overcrowded city. A follow-up to the author’s novel The Malthus Pandemic, this hard-hitting, illustrated short novel contains facts and forecasts supported by original papers.

“Not for the faint hearted.”

The Red Lantern

The Red Lantern is a selection of six short stories about international crime, corruption, and terrorism taken from five of the author’s full-length novels—An Old Spy Story, Whistleblower, Vendetta, An Honourable Fake, and Bad Boys.

God’s Factory and Four Men

Terry Morgan writes mainly serious novels with strong international background but intersperse them with less serious satire and humour like God’s Factory and Four Men.