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Fiction
Darling Inclinations - New book release
The great satirist and English dean, Jonathon Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels" has written: "There is one darling inclination of mankind ... and that is the spirit of opposition."
History has proven the satirist right as we see the legacy of that history unfolding before our eyes today. The Australian author, Harry P Russell, who spent 30 years as an ASIO operative and an Australian national law enforcement manager, has just published his 9th work of fiction entitled "Darling Inclinations". Here is a synopsis of this work of fiction:
"Michael Millstone has lost his son Warren in the 2002 Bali Bombing and needs to move on. To distract him, he’s put in charge of ASIO’s counter-terrorism team in Sydney and finds himself dealing with a terrorist threat to Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. An Al Qaeda terrorist cell has surfaced in Sydney, near where the PM is holidaying.
By 2003, another Islamic extremist cell called LeT has emerged - bent on destroying just about every key point installation and icon in Sydney – from Holsworthy Barracks to the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and Sydney Opera House. At its helm is an unlikely Frenchman called Willie Brigitte. Millstone and his team need to dismantle this cell before it turns Sydney into a bomb site.
By late 2003, Millstone finds himself and his family being stalked by a Perth-based white supremist, Jack van Tongeren. Racial tensions are now also growing in Sydney – between white supremacist gangs in the city’s south-eastern beaches, led by a neo-Nazi, James Saleam - and an increasingly militant group of Islamic community members in Sydney’s inner west. In December 2005, a fuse is lit then explodes into the Cronulla riots and similar racial riots across another three Australian states. Overnight, Australia rockets out of control."
Two decades later, having survived a pandemic and witnessed resurgent Russian and now US imperialism, Australia is being dragged by the throat into a series of global military and economic spirals not of its choosing, with our governments are scrambling to maintain the status quo that we all here, Down Under, know and love. Do our children and grandchildren need to inherit what seemingly lies before us? And if your answer is "NO" then what, I ask, can you and I do about it? Well, Harry P Russell is encapsulating it in his historical works of 'semi-fiction' - following a line of foreign interference in Australia that stems from the mid-1950s when the Russian spies, Vladimir and Yevdokia Petrov defected to Australia. You may wonder - why have not any senior Russian Intelligence operatives defectors to Australian since that time? Harry puts forward one reason, as his story lines take us through the 1960s and into the first quarter of this Century. You can catch most of his books at Order on amazon.com.au.
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History has proven the satirist right as we see the legacy of that history unfolding before our eyes today. The Australian author, Harry P Russell, who spent 30 years as an ASIO operative and an Australian national law enforcement manager, has just published his 9th work of fiction entitled "Darling Inclinations". Here is a synopsis of this work of fiction:
"Michael Millstone has lost his son Warren in the 2002 Bali Bombing and needs to move on. To distract him, he’s put in charge of ASIO’s counter-terrorism team in Sydney and finds himself dealing with a terrorist threat to Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. An Al Qaeda terrorist cell has surfaced in Sydney, near where the PM is holidaying.
By 2003, another Islamic extremist cell called LeT has emerged - bent on destroying just about every key point installation and icon in Sydney – from Holsworthy Barracks to the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and Sydney Opera House. At its helm is an unlikely Frenchman called Willie Brigitte. Millstone and his team need to dismantle this cell before it turns Sydney into a bomb site.
By late 2003, Millstone finds himself and his family being stalked by a Perth-based white supremist, Jack van Tongeren. Racial tensions are now also growing in Sydney – between white supremacist gangs in the city’s south-eastern beaches, led by a neo-Nazi, James Saleam - and an increasingly militant group of Islamic community members in Sydney’s inner west. In December 2005, a fuse is lit then explodes into the Cronulla riots and similar racial riots across another three Australian states. Overnight, Australia rockets out of control."
Two decades later, having survived a pandemic and witnessed resurgent Russian and now US imperialism, Australia is being dragged by the throat into a series of global military and economic spirals not of its choosing, with our governments are scrambling to maintain the status quo that we all here, Down Under, know and love. Do our children and grandchildren need to inherit what seemingly lies before us? And if your answer is "NO" then what, I ask, can you and I do about it? Well, Harry P Russell is encapsulating it in his historical works of 'semi-fiction' - following a line of foreign interference in Australia that stems from the mid-1950s when the Russian spies, Vladimir and Yevdokia Petrov defected to Australia. You may wonder - why have not any senior Russian Intelligence operatives defectors to Australian since that time? Harry puts forward one reason, as his story lines take us through the 1960s and into the first quarter of this Century. You can catch most of his books at Order on amazon.com.au.
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