Paul Mann Paul Mann i(A18783 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 Northumberland,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Expatriate assertion Arrived in Australia: ca. 1982 Departed from Australia: ca. 1992
Heritage: English
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5 4 y separately published work icon Season of the Monsoon Paul Mann , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1992 Z27451 1992 single work novel crime 'As a police detective in Bombay, Inspector George Sansi is used to struggling for order in one of the world's most exuberantly chaotic cities. But the mutilated corpse discovered in Bollywood - the Hollywood of India - taxes even Sansi's formidable skills. Could the murder have been a cult initiation gone hideously wrong? Was it the work of a serial killer? Was the victim killed as part of a political cover-up? Answering those questions will take Sansi from Bombay's teeming slums to the film community's palaces of excess and the menacing haunts of India's underworld. It will uncover a web of corruption that stretches from the powerful to the desperately powerless. And it will leave him running for his life.' (Publication summary)
 
3 5 y separately published work icon The Traitor's Contract Paul Mann , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1990 Z55596 1990 single work novel

'The Traitor's Contract offers non-stop action when Jack Halloran, a brilliant war hero, turns traitor. After a brutal attack on his counter-intelligence organization, Halloran knows he's being hunted. It's fight or flight and Halloran never runs. Teaming up with a rogue IRA boss, he enacts a terrorist attack that will shake the world to its core.' (Publication summary)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Beirut Contract Paul Mann , Sydney : Pan , 1989 Z269205 1989 single work novel thriller

'Lives are at stake. Time is running out. And someone has betrayed them.

'"You’re looking at twenty days to put together a team and rehearse an operation to accomplish something no Western power has been able to do in eight years. No-one has ever rescued a hostage from Lebanon."'

'The PLO is about to acquire nine reasons why the US will be powerless to retaliate against its outrages in the future. Nine American hostages are for sale and Yasser Arafat wants to buy them. America wants them back.

'The anti-terrorist mercenary force which exploded onto the pages of The Libyan Contract is reactivated for one final mission. Their orders are to bring the hostages home at any cost – and against all odds.

'The heart-stopping action of The Beirut Contract moves at a blistering pace – from Mexico to Turkey, from Baghdad to Beirut – as the mercenaries begin to wonder whether they are mere pawns in a deadly game of power-broking. What is mega-rich Jack Halloran doing at the PLO headquarters in Baghdad? How does Yasser Arafat know so much about their mission? Who is behind the brutal murders and mysterious disappearances?

'As circumstances spin out of their control, the mercenaries are forced to confront the possibility that they were never meant to get out of Lebanon alive.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Momentum reprint).
2 2 y separately published work icon The Libyan Contract Paul Mann , London : Macmillan , 1988 Z7758 1988 single work novel thriller

'Sometimes you have to fight terror with terror.

'One last atrocity tips the balance of global sanity as Middle Eastern fanatics mount a merciless Christmas Eve assault on Heathrow Airport.

'But from out of the carnage rises a crack anti-terrorist squad led by Lynch: cool, unflinching and utterly deadly. Together they form an audacious plot to take the tactics of terror back to the heart of the ultimate terrorist state.

'Their target is a man who’s held a submachine gun to the head of Western democracy for over a decade. His assassination is their mission. The land of his lunatic regime is their territory. And his name is Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Momentum reprint).
1 Brindabella Valley Paul Mann , 1986 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Geographic , October-December vol. 1 no. 4 1986; (p. 98-111)
1 Playboy Interview : Thomas Keneally Paul Mann (interviewer), 1985 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Playboy , April 1985; (p. 33-39)
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