Maurice Allen

Rogue Element (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

At around 12:40am on the 13th of February 1978, an explosive device was detonated in the back of a garbage truck outside the Hilton Hotel in George Street, Sydney Australia. Two garbage collectors died at the scene and a policeman died later from injuries received. This much is fact. What is also fact is, that who was responsible and why was never fully investigated, and that the most important forensic evidence, the bomb fragments and the garbage truck, were taken to a secret location and buried. Given that this was one of the first acts of political terrorism seen in Australia, this was surprising. As a result, many conspiracy theories emerged. In this hard hitting novel, Maurice Allen draws on these facts, personal experience, and often tenuous evidentiary threads, and ties them together to create a conspiracy theory so incredible that it just might be true. This work, apart from what is identified as fact, is a fiction, and any similarity between any person either living or dead, and any organisation, is coincidental.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503501034
• Artikelnr.: 52596280

Autorenporträt

Maurice Allen is the name chosen by the author; he thinks it sounds more sophisticated than his real name. It was also chosen because he is, to use his description, a "devout coward," and because of the controversial nature of his novels "Rogue Element" and "Promises," he fully expects some form of reprisal. He lives by the adage that "It's a cowardly pair of legs that will let your body get hurt," and there's nothing that moves faster than him in retreat. Born a long time ago, he vaguely remembers the end of WWII, in Grafton, New South Wales; and raised in Sydney, the youngest son of a train driver, he escaped from high school to take up a career as a plumber. Following a couple of near-death experiences and the constant back pain associated with that career, he made a quantum career shift into the Australian Public Service. After setting a record as the longest serving noncareer public servant in the public service, he left to become a chauffeur, a job that involved two of his passions: driving cars and meeting people. He is now retired and living by a beach in South Australia with his two miniature schnauzers. Throughout his life, he has been an information sponge, absorbing what went on around him and what he garnered from the media. This information has been regurgitated on a regular basis, as the useless trivia part of a successful quiz team, and used as background for his novels and short stories. His attitude to life is "The day that I lose my sense of humour and the desire to learn is the day that I shuffle off because there is nothing left to live for." The realisation that life is too short to be taken seriously and that there is so much that he doesn't know, has been the driving force behind his wish to keep going for as long as possible, albeit on bonus time. That he came to writing at such a late phase in his life is more down to the hatred of English as a subject at high school, than any other reason. It took decades, and an enthusiastic adult education English teacher who encouraged his creative flair, for him to realise that there was something to be gained in seeing an idea morph into a story and that there are people out there that just might be interested in reading them. He has developed his writing style over several years by contributing short stories to a Web site where they have been open to criticism. Through this, he has developed a following of readers who have encouraged his efforts. "Entertaining" is the most common comment, and this has given him the motivation to continue. It has been at these readers' suggestion that his works are worthy of publication that has led him to this next phase of his literary career.