Bob Bridge

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The Black And White House - Bob Bridge Being born black in the southern States of the USA in the postwar years certainly did not represent a good start in life. Falling in love with a white girl, from a wealthy family, wasn't the wisest thing such a boy could do: making her pregnant was a good deal worse. But such was the lot of young Joshua Jenks. From such a beginning, though, Jenks moved up in the world, and quickly. He became a US Senator, having the ear of the President. It was to prove to be only the beginning of a life of intrigue and adventure. Street crime, hijackings, bomb plots, terrorism - all play their part as the plot moves along at a cracking, almost breathless, pace, keeping the reader guessing until the very end. Bob Bridge displays a sure hand again in "The Black And White House" as he develops his complex plot, just as he has done in his "Hell Bent" series. This book is excellent value for money. (about 60,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Murder - Bob Bridge Jim Bent had spent fifteen years in the Metropolitan Police Force, most of it in and around the seedier parts of London. And all he had to show for it were three broken marriages and, thanks to a robbery that had gone badly wrong, the remains of a bullet lodged in his back. Leaving the Force, because he reckoned it was a 'young man's game', he set himself up as a private detective with dreams of finding lost husbands and wives, and perhaps enjoying the odd discreet love affair. Perhaps he was tempting fate by setting up in the seedy patch he knew so well, but he didn't expect to be drawn into the twilight world of pimps, the girls who worked for them and the sadistic minders they employed. But that's just what happens. His first client wants her husband found, just like Jim's dreams. When the husband turns up dead, hanging in Jim's own garage, his dreams turn with astonishing speed into a nightmare of violence and death. "Hell Bent On Murder" necessarily contains descriptions of sexual acts and acts of violence. (about 43,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Blackmail - Bob Bridge The second volume in Bob Bridge's "Hell Bent" series, "Hell Bent On Blackmail" follows the career of private eye Jim Bent on another trawl through the seedy underworld of London. It follows on from "Hell Bent On Murder", but also stands alone as a complex amd compelling crime story. Fast-paced, racy, tortuous, this book is all these and more as it weaves in and out of London's clubland, the seedy streets of Soho, opulent country houses and the world of politics. On one level it is a terrific story that has been constructed with care to keep the readers guessing as parts of an intricate jigsaw gradually fit together, whilst on another level it is a masterful comparison of differing concepts of loyalty: the loyalty of brothers, of spouses and of true friends. The book contains certain passages that are not suitable for children. (about 51,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Revenge - Bob Bridge This, the third in the "Hell Bent" series, is another visit to the seedy underbelly of London. It weaves an intricate story that brings together a Polish seaman, a Chinese cook and an Italian family who run a pizza restaurant, showing the seemingly unlikely but ultimately entirely logical connection between these disparate elements. Jim Bent, the private detective around whom the series revolves, is hard pressed to keep up with the action as the body count grows and the finger of suspicion begins to point at a respected officer of the Metropolitan Police. After fighting his way through a series of misunderstandings and red herrings Jim is, when the final acts are played out, at home, asleep in bed: nevertherless, without his work the villain would have ended his days in luxury instead of spending years in prison. Lovers of crime drama will thoroughly enjoy the twists and turns as the story progresses and proves that even the best of us are subject to human fallibility. (about 45,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

The Valley Of Dreams - Bob Bridge "The Valley Of Dreams" is a play taking as its theme the closure of coal mines in South Wales. A newspaper reporter is writing an article on the subject and is introduced to John Davies, an ex-miner who is fond of reminiscing, ideally over a pint or two of beer in his local pub. As the play progresses it demonstrates clearly the human aspects of the death of an industry, yet does not romanticise. It acknowledges that the industry itself had a high cost in human life and was the cause of tragedies whilst being the economic lifeblood of an area for generations. It is a short yet thoughtful piece, giving a fine overview of a most complex subject. (about 5,000 words) Price: £1.50 Quantity:

Beneath My Wings - Bob Bridge Set in the 1960s and early 1970s, "Beneath My Wings" is a story of the friendship between John Path, a young man living in Scotland, and an eagle. It is a friendship born of John's gift of being able to talk to animals and understand them. John introduces the eagle, who he calls Swift, to his girlfriend Jane, and finds that neither deserts him when he is struck down with polio. But Swift is captured and imprisoned in a zoo - that is, until John and his father set about releasing him. Does John's act of kindness in returning Swift to the wild have anything to do with the 'miracle' that suddenly changes his life? Who, or what, is Swift really? The answers are to be found in this entertaining little book. "Beneath My Wings" was first published in 1992 by Vantage Press Inc, New York, USA. (about 15,000 words) Price: £2.50 Quantity:

Kinmel Revisited - Bob Bridge Kinmel Camp on the North Wales coast was, in 1919, a repatriation centre for Canadian troops at the end of World War I. But there were problems. The British Government had decommissioned its troop ships. The Canadian Government was facing a massive unemployment problem to which homecoming troops could only add. Were those Canadians - who were among the first Canadians to enter the war and could justify being called heroes - to be forgotten about? In this fictionalised account of those dark, dramatic days Bob Bridge has interpreted the records to produce a novel that might be seen as a fitting tribute to those Canadian soldiers who survived the horrors of war only to die in peacetime, thousands of miles from home. Their graves, imacculately tended, can still be seen in the churchyard at Bodelwyddan in North Wales. (about 20,000 words) Price: £2.00 Quantity:

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