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Lionel Ross Novels
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There had always been Olivers living in Dalethorpe. In fact, the village had been founded nearly twelve hundred years ago by the family’s Viking ancestor, Karl Olafsen, and his Hebrew slave-girl wife, Rachel. For much of the last two hundred years most of the residents of the village owed their livelihoods to the Oliver family, who were both the local squires and mill-owners. However, once they had established their other family home in the leafy London suburb of Hampstead, their influence was felt well beyond the boundaries of the small East-Lancashire village. The family was simultaneously privileged and popular, but nothing could protect them from the tragedy, family feud and romantic, political and business machinations that all but overwhelmed them. All the elements are present for a remarkable family saga as Lionel’s story strides through many of the defining events from the 19th and 20th centuries and onwards to the present day, culminating in the recent expenses scandal at the Palace of Westminster. Alongside all this runs the tantalising mystery of the sacred Viking Burial Mound at the end of their large garden and how its secrets would be drip-fed into the lives of this extraordinary family
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Lionel Ross, in his fourth novel ‘Men of Conviction’ tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad, Wayne the burglar and Dovid the religious Jew and ‘one offence fraudster.’ Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.
Hussein, predictably, builds a shadowy Jihadist organisation with the intention, through terrorism, of creating the Caliphate of Britannia under Shari’a law. Wayne is determined to change his life and almost accidently finds himself the owner of a chain of Massage Parlours. By his previous standards, this is the path to wealth and respectability! Dovid, on the other hand, with the aid of his wealthy grandfather, becomes a successful property developer. The action takes place in such contrasting locations as 21st century Manchester, Istanbul, Afghanistan, Belfast and a mysterious breakaway Islamic republic. The contemporary background to the plots ensures the airing of such issues as Islamist and Irish terrorism, religious intolerance and drug trading. The main characters are easily recognisable as typical members of today's British multi-cultural society.
As the cataclysmic ending approaches, the paths of the three main characters are destined to cross again in an epic and amazing ending.
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A British soldier discovers two ancient scrolls buried in a cave in the Iraqi desert. This sets off a chain of events that involves a mysterious unfulfilled pact from the long-ago days of the Baghdad Caliphate and desperate attempts to keep the existence of these scrolls, with their monumental danger to world peace, away from the eyes of the media. The characters include an Iraqi Professor of Archaeology, a Jordanian Prince, members of the Israeli Mossad, the British SIS, an Al Qaeda group and a fanatical Southern Baptist Minister. All of them have their own conflicting agendas as they try to gain possession of the priceless but highly dangerous documents.
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This story spans five hundred years
of European and Middle Eastern history.
It is the story of two Spanish
Jewish families, the wealthy Alvaros & their cousins the Mendozas, forced to flee their homeland in 1492.
After many adventures on the high seas, including an attempted rape where the intended victim kills her assailant, a mutiny
and wild and stormy weather they are shipwrecked on the coast of South Western Ireland (Co. Kerry.) They are marooned there
and forced to build some kind of a life in their new bleak environment.
The story then leaps forward to the late twentieth century as it becomes the tale of two families of Southern
Irish shepherds, the Allbarrows and the Meadows. Hidden Heritage then describes the defining moments of how and when they
lost their Jewish identity and became the fanatical Roman Catholics that you meet in the two families in the present day.
You will learn how Jose Alvaro, the Spanish-Jewish Grandee came to be an ancestor of Joseph Allbarrow who deserted his simple
stone cottage in 1992 to join the Irish Army and found himself in modern day Israel, as a member of UNIFIL. You will then discover how he became a hero in a skirmish with Hizbullah that nearly
cost him his life and of his romance with Israeli diplomat Dalia Mendoza.
You will also learn of the priceless holy scroll that miraculously survives the centuries and accompanies the families on
their journey through history.
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Andy Fine is a brilliant, unscrupulous young businessman. He transforms his father’s Manchester based textile company into a huge corporation. He agonises about his sexual orientation. Andy’s arrogance eventually results in the loss of his job. Andy’s father, Rube, is blackmailed after the mysterious death of his mistress. Andy meets New York banker Mario Franconi and becomes head of the London branch of Franconi’s bank. What is Franconi’s background? Why does the bank crash?
Valerie, Andy’s ex-wife, meets Charles, a religious Jew. They fall in love. Charles asks Valerie to convert to Judaism to marry him.
What secret is Valerie’s mother guarding? Will it affect her daughter’s life and happiness?
Andy is forced to sell his home. A mysterious lady arrives at the eleventh hour to make an unusual offer! Could this be his salvation?
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