John Barber

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John Barleycorn Must Die (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #9) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood is recalled from retirement to locate a missing MI5 agent. He has no name and no photo to assist his search; only told that he is the right man for the job. He is soon informed that a left hand drive Range Rover crashed on the bypass, burst into a fireball and the car and driver burned to a cinder with no means of formal identification. After speaking to the police station sergeant and the brewery he is reasonably certain that the dead man was Roger Chapman, the Marketing Officer for Redbourne Brewery known to drive a left hand top of the range Range Rover SUV. In his attempts to verify this he is monitored by the agencies of the secret service. Winwood is a plain, working class man who does not believe in UFOs or aliens. However he has contact with strange Men in Black who do not offer any obvious physical threats but make it clear that he should do as he is requested. Winwood has to call on the help of his closest friends who he knows he can trust; Brian Bennett, Consultant Editor for the Rutherford International News Group (RING) and John Cherry, owner of an antiquarian bookshop who Steve has always suspected has links inside Government circles. These two provide Steve with evidence of alien life amongst the everyday life of Rutherford. Steve is still not totally convinced but two close encounters with the mysterious Men in Black shake that belief. His former Sergeant, now Detective Inspector Emma Porter arrives in town to investigate a case of an international property fraud brought to the attention of her department by a mysterious Chinese businessman. The trail leads back to Roger Chapman. Steve Winwood knows that everything he has unearthed is connected but as Brian Bennett warns him, who will believe it. His final report offers a simple solution of a man suffering a nervous breakdown after brokering a deal between the brewery and the Chinese went terribly wrong and being discovered as being the man behind the property scam was the last straw. Roger Chapman committed suicide but maybe that is not the truth. The truth is more bizarre. This book has drawn upon true stories of contacts with aliens; names have been changed but mysteries remain. The main one being the reason behind appearance of the sinister Men in Black. They are far from being Hollywood film stars but are they working for the Government or an alien intelligence? There is no definitive answer. Those who have encountered them do not want to meet them again.

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Autor

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463059388
• Artikelnr.: 70720888