Cirrus@Austlit

'For Freedom's Cause is a historical, romantic thriller set in England and Australia between the world wars. It follows the adventures and growing relationship between a working class English army officer, from Manchester, Dan Bevan, and a Melbourne barrister, serving with the Australian Light Horse, Charlie Elliott, who met, by chance, during the First World War and the strong women in their lives. Having survived several of the major battles, both men are so disillusioned with the homes and occupations they return to, that Dan volunteers to suppress the republican rebellion in Ireland and Charlie joins an underground army to stand-up against mob riots in Melbourne. Despite their contrasting social origins and differing views on what form of government is best for preserving freedom and maintaining civil order, they become firm friends and when Dan is targeted by vengeful IRA assassins, he accepts Charlie's invitation to escape to Australia where he intends settling down peacefully in Melbourne, with the love of his life who unknown to him has born him a son. When IRA gunmen pursue him from Melbourne to Perth he is forced to flee to a cattle station in the Kimberley where, finally reunited with his wife and son, he confronts his nemesis in that vast and mystical wilderness. For Freedom's Cause is the first book in The Kimberley Trilogy of Australian adventure novels which span the first, second and, yet to come, third world war.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Battle for the North is the second in The Kimberley Trilogy of Australian adventure novels which span the first, second and, yet to come, third world war. It reunites the heroes and heroines of For Freedom's Cause -Dan, Charlie, Elspeth Liza and Alice, in frustrating Japanese espionage plots and raids into northern Australia during World War 2. The action takes place in the Kimberley wilderness and celebrates the daring and heroism of mounted North Australian Observer Unit patrols, nicknamed the 'Nackeroos' or 'Curtin's Cowboys.'

'The North Australia Observer Unit, formed in 1942 to protect the north of Australia from a Japanese attack, consisted of around 500 men and their aboriginal guides, stretched from Wyndham to Cape York, and was headed by the anthropologist William Stanner.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Kimberley Kill is the third in The Kimberley Trilogy of Australian adventure novels which span the first, second and, yet to come, third world war.

'Frustrated by its inability to acquire sufficient energy to power its ever expanding economy, China has invaded Russia, annexing the Siberian oil and gas fields and precipitating World War Three.

'A key satellite communication base in the Kimberley is threatened by invading Indonesian special forces. All that stands in their way is a small Norforce patrol backed by an Aboriginal tribe, whose female leader is intent on avenging the murder of her father, their Elder, and the desecration of their Wandjina guardian.

'Three strong-minded and determined people—the devout Muslim leader of the Indonesian Kopassus force, the MIT-trained daughter of an assassinated Aboriginal elder and the middle-aged, former SAS Anglo, gas platform engineer and part-time leader of the Norforce patrol—strive to assert and impose their conflicting beliefs and loyalties when they clash in a chase across the Kimberley wilderness.' (Publisher's blurb)