Title: The Orange Moon Affair
Author: AFN Clark
Series: Thomas Gun Thrillers #1
Pages: 258
Date Published: April 20th 2013
Publisher: Clarke-Books LLC
Format: Kindle
Genre Suspense:
Synopsis:
Thomas Gunn (ex-Special Forces) and his partner Julie are running for their lives. Who are they running from? And why? It all starts when Thomas decides to investigate the mysterious murder of his billionaire industrialist father. He’s shocked when his every move is blocked, especially by top levels of the UK government. But when his attempts to track down an elusive American business partner of his father’s turn lethal, he and Julie become moving targets, racing to outwit those who clearly want them dead. The danger rapidly escalates when Thomas is reluctantly compelled back into working for British Military Intelligence, exposing an international conspiracy that puts the freedom of the western world at grave risk. But who are these ruthless conspirators that wield such unimaginable power? How are they connected to his father? And what dark secrets from the past will Thomas uncover in his relentless quest for the truth? This action-packed thriller spans the UK, USA and Europe and keeps you guessing to the very last page!
~Try an Excerpt!~
Nightmares crowded my sleep and I woke in a sweat, some
twelve hours later, gasping for air and thought that Julie’s death was just a
nightmare, a figment of my imagination. But I knew it wasn’t.
I needed air and crawled to the door leading out onto the
patio that overlooked the beach and the Sea of Cortez. It felt similar to Gozo,
but it was subtly different; the smell of dry sage tinged the slight breeze and
somewhere close by, lingering smoke from a mesquite barbecue blew lazily across
the beach. Bile rose in my mouth and I dry retched onto the sand as the image
of Julie, bloodied and broken in the helicopter, blasted into my mind.
The moment passed and I sat at the water’s edge as small
wavelets ran up the beach and sank into the sand.
Julie’s death killed something in me. Something I thought I
had recovered from after my last tour in Afghanistan. She gave my life a soul
that had been destroyed, and now with her death, my soul was as dark as it had
ever been.
De Costas would pay for her death.
All that was left in me was the instinct for survival and revenge;
the only emotion, pure hatred for the man that had caused all this. It was this
that had kept me alive when I should have been dead. It was this that created
the desire to fight back to full health.
An hour later I hobbled slowly back to the bedroom, lay down
and fell into a dreamless sleep.
~Meet AFN!~
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AFN Clarke is a full-time author, screenwriter, the son of a
British MI6 operative, former officer in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment,
pilot, sailor, racecar driver and father of four who's lived in Hong Kong,
India, Libya, Iran, Europe, the UK, USA, and Australia. He's written seven
books of fiction and his bestselling memoir, CONTACT, was serialized in a
British newspaper and made into an award-winning BBCTV film.
This rich background allows Clarke to bring his own unique and eye
opening experiences to his latest Thomas Gunn thriller series that are
fast-paced, thought provoking and frighteningly real and have captured the
imagination of readers world-wide. As he says: "For me, good books are a
great way to shut out every day life, suspend normal ways of thinking, and
allow yourself to be captivated by another world. That’s what I continually
strive to deliver to my readers."
Books include: The Orange Moon Affair and The Jonas Trust
Deception (Thomas Gunn thrillers), Contact, An Unquiet American, Dry Tortugas,
Dreams from the Death Age and Armageddon (The Book of Baker Satire Series),
Collisions, with more coming soon. Available from Amazon; coming soon to Nook,
iBooks, and Kobo.
Find Clarke Here:
Twitter: @AFNClarke
Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteReally appreciate you featuring my book, writing a series that keeps reader's on the edge of their seats while making each book unique and different and not written to the same formula is a challenge but a really exciting and uplifting one.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for readers of this blog for stopping by - if you have any questions I'd be only too happy to answer them. As I am in Australia there is a large time difference between me and readers in the USA, UK or Europe, so bear with me before I can check back in again. Cheers and happy reading!
This excerpt really makes me want to read the book. It sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteAs the author it's always great to hear that - thank you so much for taking the time to read it. And you can always click through to the book on Amazon and use the "Look Inside" feature to read a lot more of the book if it interests you. I always use that feature myself when deciding whether I want to actually buy a book or not. Have a great day and thanks again! AFN Clarke
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