A DARK SECRET What would you do if you held the key to the world's salvation - or to its darkest nightmare? International war photographer, Mason Bradley is caught in the middle, when his uncle, a retired CIA agent, turns up dead on a train in Eastern Europe. What was he carrying? Where is it now? Everyone suspects that Bradley knows the answer, and his life seems to be worth little as factions of the CIA, the Russian Mafiya, and wealthy industrialists struggle to possess it. Only Bradley doesn't have it, and the only way to survive is to find it and use it as a bargaining chip for his life. A DANGEROUS JOURNEY The action moves from the eastern seaboard of the United States, through Europe, to St. Petersburg, and the heart of the Russian Mafiya, then to the far north, to the frozen wasteland of Siberia, to a secret, still held long after the demise of the Soviet Union. Bradley struggles to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, as one by one, every avenue of escape becomes closed off to him. His only companion on the journey is the lovely Katya Kaminski. Is she, like him, a victim, or is she part of the plot? A DEADLY THREAT Set against a backdrop of security obsessed America and Russian social and political turmoil, what chance does one man have in this shady and secret world, where money, greed, and deception, are the deadly currency in the battle for ultimate power, and where life can be snuffed out with the snap of unseen fingers. But perhaps they have overlooked the fact that Mason Bradley may just have some dark secrets of his own THE DOOMSDAY LEGACY Do you love a good story? Do you like a fast-paced thriller to keep you awake at night? Do you want to be taken on a journey where the borderline between fact and fiction is hidden somewhere deep in the folds of an intricate, helter skelter plot? - then The Doomsday Legacy should be on your bedside table.
About the Author: I've always been a scribbler as far back as I can remember. The Doomsday Legacy is my first published novel but not the first I have written. In fact I have a number of half written attempts that have been pushed aside over the years as my 'proper job' demanded more and more of my time. I remember my first completed novel, 'The Song of the Nightingale'. It was my attempt at the great spy novel, a sort of homage to the 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' (still one of my all-time favourite books). It was a gritty spy story set in Berlin, amidst the chill of the cold war. Unfortunately, as I was typing the last pages, they were bulldozing down the Berlin wall, so that one melted pretty quickly and never saw the light of day. Still, writing is what you are, not what you do. It's never going to go away, so you just keep on trying. As a young, Naval Radio Officer, then as a computer specialist for a multi-national company, I travelled the world and serviced many military, secret research and laboratory installations. When I started out as a computer engineer, all the military and secret installations in the south of England were on my patch: Porton Down (the Government bio-warfare laboratories), AWRE (Atomic Weapons Research Establishment), and Marconi Space and Research Laboratories, just to name a few. Whilst living in Eastern Europe, I came in contact with the real life Russian Mafiya and shady characters dealing in dodgy 'semi-precious metals' - a euphemism for anything coming out the back door of former Soviet military installations. 'The Doomsday Legacy' reflects my love of a good story and a belief that a good story requires authenticity, in character, place, and premise. To achieve this I have not only relied on meticulous research but on my own personal experiences working around the world in many fascinating and often sensitive environments. All the towns, streets, train journeys, hotels, and bars in 'The Doomsday Legacy' actually exist, and most importantly, many of the characters as well. I've been there - I'd like to take readers there too.