AustLit

'Sadistic Hamish McMurtrie ‘Hacka’ Blanchard hatches a brutal but brilliant plan, the cold-hearted brutality of which shocks even the hardest-nosed policemen. With the aid of three former cellmates, he contrives to kidnap two federal politicians and demand a $5 million ransom from the government. Nothing could go wrong.

'But Senior Sergeant Ken McLoughlin and his partner Tony Delarosa have other plans. In a dangerous race against time, they sweep through the sun-drenched Great Barrier Reef, the Kimberleys, the slums of Poland, and the cattle stations of the outback in an almost impossible task to stop Blanchard’s trail of unimaginable violence.' (Publication summary)

'The Players:

Franco, Luigi and Enrico Mogliotti, small-time crims ready for the big time. Gina, the fiery Sicilian business woman, drawn to the seedy underbelly of town.

'Georgette McKinley, the young, gorgeous and highly-talented TV reporter. Driven with ambition, she learns quickly the cost of getting to the top – and the enormous cost of staying there. Bill Murphy, former journalist, now internationally famous author, craves anonymity – until he meets Georgette.

'The Weasel, rejected loner, seething with blind hatred, is Public Enemy Number One, a vicious and clever-minded killer. Senior Sergeant Ken McLoughlin, the hero cop of Eleven Days, in the toughest and most gut-wrenching assignment of his career, must track down The Weasel and stop him before he kills again.

'The Heist:

$20 million sitting unguarded in a safe in northern Italy, a temptation too seductive to ignore.

The lust for money, sex and power combine in a volatile and explosive climax, the reverberations of which are felt all the way to the highest office in the land – to the very Prime Minister himself.' (Publication summary)

'Can one woman's passion be shared between two men?

'In the early 1990s Katie McFarlane is a nurse living in suburban Adelaide. For Katie, life is as normal as it gets, but a chance meeting with Paul Redman sends her life into an uncontrollable tailspin. Katie is swept into the fast lane of wealth, happiness and uninhibited emotion. As each glorious day passes, wealthy Paul Redman becomes increasingly determined to weave their futures together as one.

'However, tragedy strikes and Katie flees her familiar life in grief and confusion. A near fatal accident sends her on a collision course with Gabe Caplin, a kind, reclusive giant of a man from a suppressed and violent childhood. All he knows is the simple uncomplicated existence of running a farm, but he knows what he wants: he wants desperately to love and to be loved. And he desperately wants Katie McFarlane.

'Katie is torn between her love for Paul Redman and her increasing desire for Gabe Caplin. Her world and life is threatened in a final confrontation when vengeful psychopath Scarfe Olsen comes calling - and shooting.

'In the tradition of Graham Guy's most popular novels, Eleven Days is a sweeping saga of tender love that weaves its way through an explosive adventure.' (Publication blurb)