JUSTIN KERR-SMILEY
BOOKS
Justin Kerr-Smiley has published four novels: 'A Leap in the Dark', 'Codename Edelweiss: The Search for Hitler's Son', 'Goodbye To The President' and 'Under The Sun'. A book of Justin Kerr-Smiley's poetry is to be published in 2025.
A LEAP IN THE DARK
ISBN-13: 978-1916556409
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The year is 1798. David Stoddart lives in Edinburgh and is a respected town councillor by day and a thief by night. After dark he prowls the streets robbing houses. Although he fights against his passions he is drawn back to the underworld like a moth to a flame.
Addicted to gambling Stoddart forms a gang to increase his takings, but one night a raid goes badly wrong and he must flee for his life. He is pursued by furies who demand their pound of flesh and will not be denied...
A Leap In The Dark shows how we are often caught on the horns of a dilemma; between good and evil, darkness and light. As Robert Louis Stevenson said: ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two.’
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THE SEARCH FOR HITLER'S SON
ISBN-13: 978-1914414329
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In 1976, Argentina is governed by a military junta bankrolled by former Nazis. It is the anniversary of a mysterious village fire in the jungle. The lone survivor, a Guaraní boy, is now a Jesuit priest.
A Jewish journalist, Ariel Guzman, interviews him at his mission. The man claims Adolf Hitler escaped from Berlin with Eva Braun and made a secret camp near the Iguaçu Falls. The Führer ordered the village’s destruction, but the priest refuses to say why. He mentions the codename Edelweiss and will only reveal the person’s identity if he dies.
Argentina’s most powerful man is billionaire and Waffen-SS veteran Tiago Hecht. He is searching for Edelweiss so that he can establish a Fourth Reich. Hecht now has confirmation Hitler’s son is alive. But so does the Mossad and they have sent an agent to eliminate him. The only sanctuary for ‘Edelweiss’ is at the Vatican, but time is running out. The hunt is on…
GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT
ISBN-13: 978-1505315271
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On 11 September 1973, Chile's President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The president took refuge in the palace La Moneda, which was bombed by the air force and assaulted by troops. The defenders surrendered. In the smouldering ruins Allende lay dead.
'Goodbye To The President' is a novel which recounts in vivid detail the terrors of that day and its brutal aftermath. Years later, Pinochet is arrested in London. Although the former dictator is released and returns to Chile, he dies broken and disgraced.
'Goodbye To The President' is a unique testament to the victims who perished during the coup and also to those who, against all odds, managed to survive. The narrative is based on interviews, eyewitness accounts and the author's experiences.
UNDER THE SUN
ISBN-13: 978-1908129499
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The redemptive power of friendship and how it can surpass all odds
‘Under The Sun’ is set in the closing stages of World War Two in the South Pacific. RAF Flight Lieutenant Edward Strickland is shot down on a dawn patrol and taken prisoner on an island. The Japanese commander brutally interrogates his captive and a battle of wills develops, which will only have one victor.
Then events take an unexpected turn and the island becomes, for a while, a kind of Eden. But beyond its shores danger lurks and Japan’s surrender leads to a climactic end which shatters the idyll for ever.