Bøger af Mike Inkster

An Unholy Alliance: Nobody Wins. The lives of two families, the Livingstones and the Mowbrays, who come from different ends of the social scale, run in parallel for over 100 years. Through two World Wars, social and political upheaval, whether they like it or not, fate throws them together. Sometimes for good and sometimes, not. Three generations of these two families, through a variety of circumstances, find themselves entangled in situations of domestic and world intrigue that eventually culminate in a plot to destroy the British Government. Throughout their relationships, trust is critical as are loyalty and integrity. Lives depend on it. A family saga, military history, spying, crime and terrorism, this story involves elements of them all as it builds to its climax in the autumn of 2015.

The Soldier's Gene cleverly fills a gap between factual history books and the general historical novel. Tracing the passage of genes for nearly 850 years through the descendants of one man, is an interesting departure from the norm and adds an intriguing slant to what remains a novel. The mixture of facts of the various battles fought by the British Army during those years, and the fictional descriptions of the experiences of the soldiers, in battle and otherwise, has been skilfully written and little imagination is needed to make the reader feel as if they are there with the soldiers.The characters experience the vagaries of war on a very personal level and recount their different tales at first hand although not all are willing soldiers. They fight for different reasons and differing causes both in their homelands and foreign fields. They are not always on the winning side and some don't come through unscathed. Some don't come through at all.