Desmond V Diggles

eBook, ePUB

Wenlock (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Spanning three generations of three families, Wenlock is set in and about the town of Weipa North Queensland. The interaction between the Rochester, Palmer, and the Moses families is formed by tradition and occasioned by greed. The Palmer's matriarch Harold Palmer unknowingly fathered an illegitimate son following a liaison while on leave in London during WWI. Returning to Australia won the rights to the property he called 'Marylebone Station' in a ballot after WWI. This is the story of the struggles for ownership of that property. Mark Palmer is a grandson of Harold and is dissatisfied with his father's decision to follow his grandfather's lead concerning the legacy of Marylebone. Blake Moses, a decorated Special Air Services officer, is wounded in Afghanistan and returns to Northern Queensland on leave to recuperate. There he links up with a friend from the Australian Defence Force Academy, Tammy Wilson. She is now a police constable. Using his unique skill set, he assists Tammy and the Queensland Police with their murder investigation of the owners of the Marylebone while he is on secondment to the Australian Federal Police. Rally Rochester is the grandson of Harold who chooses to visit 'Marylebone Station' to meet his Australian family members, whose existence he became aware of because of a letter from the grave written by his mother. Through an unexpected chain of events, he inherits ownership of 'Marylebone Station' following the murder of the owners of the station his relatives, Colin and Ailsa.

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• Größe: 3.04MB

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Autor

Born in Australia Des lives in Brisbane. His profession was cartography working for the Queensland Government in the Department of Mapping and Surveying and Lands Department. A 30-year military career was spent in the Army Reserves with the engineers and transport. He retired as a Lt. Col. He has authored technical cartographic publications and gained a BA in 1989. After retirement in 1999, Des researched, compiled and published Mapping Queensland. This reference book covers the history of mapping in Queensland between 1859 and 1959. In 2011 Des was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his services to Survey and Mapping. In 2019 he chose to write fiction using his experiences with the public service and military. Wenlock is his first novel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Balboa Press AU
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781982293185
• Artikelnr.: 69340288