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After a rocky few months in their marriage, Harry and Sara Harrigan are reunited and more in love than ever. But Harry has a problem. He is warned that an American corporate predator, Buddy Harrison, has designs on Harry's family company, Pattersons Industries, and is wooing Harry's two co-owners, his aunts Faye and Joyce. An influenza epidemic is raging through Queensland, Australia, and Harry and Sara are constantly on the move helping family members....
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Jake and Anne Barlow have undertaken an assignment in a small country town in Queensland, called Monto, where Jake has been assessing a brilliant but mentally flawed young cricketer, Baby Jamie Devon. Jake was a champion cricketer and Police reporter. Anne is a psychologist and, together, they're deemed the ideal team to look at the young genius. Baby Jamie becomes smitten with Anne and trouble looms. But they have bigger problems. While Jake was...
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This is the third book in the Ben Dixon series. Ben Dixon's wife,Milly, announces that she's leaving her husband and family and her apparently happy life on Wellington Springs, their Queensland cattle property, to take up a TV contract in Melbourne for three years. She's had some trials in Melbourne a few months previously when Ben was in hospital recovering from the after-effects of his shooting in the Wreck Lagoon affair.Ben, knowledgeable of TV...
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Cattleman and journalist Ben Dixon decides to head West to meet some old friends and to distribute some of his and his wife Milly's considerable wealth to landholders who are doing it tough. Milly has been behaving badly, thinking she's pregnant although her doctor warns her that at 49 it's a symptom of her time of life. When he proves to be correct, Milly, now out of control, turns on Ben. He'd promised her a 25th anniversary reavowal ceremony in...
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Young University graduate Ben Dixon has always wanted to be a newspaper reporter, even though he's from a farming background. He approaches the editor of the State's biggest paper, the Brisbane Courier- Mail for a job.The editor, J.L.Gray, admires the young man's tenacity and unorthodox approach and tells him to go out and get a story anywhere in the city and bring it back. Ben dresses in old clothes and joins a group of homeless men, sharing their...
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Ben and Milly Dixon are being stalked by Kate Brown in their small town of Monaldo in south-east Queensland, Australia. Kate had been a girlfriend of Ben's, growing up with him in Monaldo and expecting marriage. But Ben opts for life as a reporter in Brisbane and meets and marries Milly, a fellow reporter. Eventually they and their three children move to Monaldo, where Ben takes over the family cattle property. Kate follows them. She is now so obsessed...
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Harry Harrigan is a young Australian accountant who's been forced to return to his rural hometown by his bullying father who threatens harm to Harry's mother unless he returns to work for him. Knowing that his father has full control, Harry complies and makes the best of his new job and life in Monaldo. There, he falls in love with a beautiful young woman from a neighbouring town. Eventually he has the inevitable clash with his father and leaves,...
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Harry Harrigan, tough Australian financial investigator, has been brought in from the cold to enjoy a quiet domestic life in Brisbane, Australia, after a hazardous two years solving financial crimes all over the world--non-stop. His boss, George Balfour, believes that Harry, having just survived an attempt on his life during his final and biggest inquiry, has done enough. He appoints him manager of the company's Queensland branch, but indicates he...
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'His name's Judd Hogan.Please call him that so I can find him again,' Judd's mother calls as she gently puts the newborn baby on a chair in the vestibule of the McDonald Boys' Home, outside Brisbane, and dashes out the door. And so Judd's battles begin. He's not welcome at the Home where they house only boys who can earn their keep by working in the potato fields surrounding the Home. But they are made to keep him and a kindly screw, Miss Smackie,...
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Beautiful young widow, Charlotte Madison, is destitute after the death of her husband in a rail accident, and begins housekeeping once a week for five lovelorn bachelors in the small rural town of Monto In Queensland. They importune her and she keeps refusing until her son Robbie, 13, is caught thieving around the town with his mates. The local Police Sergeant urges her to get Robbie out of Monto and, desperate for money, Charlotte agrees to give...
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Jake Barlow, now retired from murder investigations, and living a peaceful life with his wife Annie, sets out on a nice spring morning, In Brisbane, to do some banking business, some research for his latest book and some lunch with beautiful Anne. But the bank is invaded by three young Muslims, wanting to rob it to fund the Jihad in Syria. They are ruthless, killing two security guards and a plain clothes policeman and, eventually two hostages, of...
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Rural reporter and cattleman, Ned Barron, has been banging away at mining companies for years so he's not pleased when he arrives at a Queensland country town on assignment and finds the place booked out by the so-called Coal Queen, Laura Barnett, head of Barnett Mining and Australia's richest woman. In the local pub he's approached by one of her staff and told not to approach Miss Barnett under any circumstances. Amused, he replies by tipping his...