Andre Jute

Biography

André Jute is a novelist and, through his non-fiction books, a teacher of creative writing, graphic design and engineering. There are about five hundred editions of his books in English and about twenty other languages.

He was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which for fifteen years he wrote a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers.

He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire.

Where to find Andre Jute online

Series

Cold War, Hot Passions
Ten Russian and American families of patriots and spies over three generations and three-quarters of a century.
Vanguard Elite
Price: $2.99 USD.
Terrors
Price: $2.99 USD.
Derring-Do
Price: $2.99 USD.
Brothers & Enemies
Price: $2.99 USD.
Lashback
Price: $2.99 USD.
Empire
Price: $2.99 USD.

Books

Poisoned Wells
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 7. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 28,090. Language: English. Published: December 23, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Historical » USA
After Kim Philby’s betrayals, Central Intelligence is so paralyzed by fear of Soviet penetration that only risk-free operations are sanctioned. Hubbell Adams returns from Vietnam scarred but nonetheless goes into the field with the Company's greatest aggressive operation in twenty years to seduce the KGB's insider of insiders into defection.
Sinkhole
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 101,730. Language: English. Published: September 29, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
“Jute has concocted an elaborate, cinematic, vivid mayhem-epic. The merry-go-round action keeps shifting from the doings above (panic, horror, crass media, rescue attempts) to the doings below, where a colorful assortment of survivors creep around in a sci-fi landscape of blood, mud, oil, and rubble. Fare for techno-disaster buffs, with grisly, imaginative touches.” — Kirkus Reviews
The Zaharoff Commission
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 79,050. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Western
* THE ZAHAROFF COMMISSION is an historically true thriller. * “The information which Zaharoff secured in Germany for Lloyd George was the most important piece of intelligence of the whole war,” said Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France in World War One. * “Jute’s work of fiction is, once again, bang on target.” — Donald McCormick, author of PEDLAR OF DEATH: THE LIFE OF SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF.
Reverse Negative
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 72,910. Language: English. Published: December 13, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
* “The author is very close to the truth. The book has sufficient fact to make some people sit up.” — Richard Deacon, author of A History of the British Secret Service. * “Wild but exciting. It is a grand job, with plenty of irony.” — New York Times * “So bizarre, it’s probably all true.” — London Evening News *
Empire
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 6. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 42,530. Language: English. Published: November 24, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Historical » General
On Christmas Eve 1968 Yuri Andropov, soon to be Chairman of the KGB, returns home unexpectedly to discover an orgiastic party thrown by his son. In his own bed Andropov finds Babe Bibikov and Nadia Kerensky. Andropov calls for the files of his son’s friends… The greatest conspiracy the world has ever seen, which will bring down an empire, starts here.
Lashback
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 5. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 30,050. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Why Harvey McQueen, the permanent outsider, the greatest American spy of all time, was introduced to President Kennedy as "the American James Bond" who exposed Kim Philby and dug the Berlin Tunnel into the heart of Russia’s darkest secrets. “Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” — New York Times
Festival
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 65,600. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Festival André Jute When the formidable Iron Curtain conductor Vlaklos decides to defect to the West at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, consequent events electrify an elite group related through their loves, their hatreds, their secrets and their ambitions. Lovers and enemies alike have their price.
Brothers & Enemies
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 36,560. Language: English. Published: October 9, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » World politics
In the postwar years the Cold War ramps up, with consequences for true patriots on boths sides of the Iron Curtain — and their families. BROTHERS & ENEMIES, Book 4 in Andre Jute's globally sweeping thriller series COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS, encapsulates the human cost of the key events that shaped the modern KGB and CIA, and the world we live in.
Buggins' Turn
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 30,760. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2014 . Categories: Screenplays » Comedy, Screenplays » Romance
(5.00 from 1 review)
W. S. Buggins is the nerdiest wimp ever, an embarrassment. A poet, for crying out loud. Now the rappa-revo Bloody Raztuz Razzamatazz has recorded his poems. And Buggins, with only a little prodding from Celia — the beautiful stockbroker — is blossoming into a guerilla consumer advocate. With violence and destruction of property. A rock’n’roll romantic comedy we all wish would come true.
Cold War, Hot Passions: Omnibus One
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 126,790. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS OMNIBUS ONE the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace. “Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” New York Times
Derring-Do
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 44,900. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” New York Times DERRING-DO is Book 3 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
Gauntlet Run: Birth of a Superhero
Price: Free! Words: 57,440. Language: English. Published: February 17, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
(5.00 from 1 review)
HENTY’S FIST 1: GAUNTLET RUN Birth of Superhero by André Jute, Dakota Franklin, Andrew McCoy The Gauntlet Run is the toughest race ever run by man: across America with every man’s hand turned against you from the statue of Liberty to the old US Mint in San Francisco. There the prize awaits you: $10 million and a full and free Presidential Pardon. No woman has ever Run the Gauntlet...
Terrors
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 46,830. Language: English. Published: March 18, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
TERRORS BREAD & CIRCUSES BLACK CABINETS is Book 2 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio
Series: The TIME-LIFE Conspiracy. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 19,960. Language: English. Published: December 2, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » White house
It didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize the great issues of the day. Someone willed it. A very surprising someone. With the best possible intentions. For the best possible reasons. In all sincerity. To save the Republic.
A Crime of Influence a screenplay
Series: The TIME-LIFE Conspiracy. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 29,110. Language: English. Published: December 2, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » White house
In 1952, in the last titanic struggle for the soul of America, one man has the vision and the power to do what has to be done. Harry Luce can do his patriotic duty — and destroy his friend. Or Harry can be loyal to his friend — and betray his country. Which would you choose?
An Election of Patriots a true novel in their own words
Series: The TIME-LIFE Conspiracy. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 29,990. Language: English. Published: December 2, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Nonfiction » History » American
It didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize policy. Someone willed it. A very surprising someone. With the best possible intentions. For the best possible reasons. In all sincerity. To save the Republic. To elect the best possible President. A crime of influence. Perpetrated by real people. Who paid a real price. This is their true story. In their own words.
Eight Days in Washington
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,020. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
A SERIAL KILLER SPIRALS IN ON THE WHITE HOUSE IN AN ELECTION YEAR A United States Senator harbors a secret that could cost him his life.
Vanguard Elite
Series: Cold War, Hot Passions, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 38,740. Language: English. Published: November 8, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century
THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN STARTED WITH THE STORMING OF THE WINTER PALACE. An epic historical saga of three intertwined families who live and die by their love of their Russian motherland and the searing passions they arouse in each other. VANGUARD ELITE is Book 1 of COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS.
The TIME-LIFE Conspiracy
Series: The TIME-LIFE Conspiracy. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 77,930. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American, Screenplays » Drama
Omnibus containing the novel AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS, the screenplay A CRIME OF INFLUENCE, and the radio play PIVOT, both adapted from the novel by the author, Andre Jute.
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID a Rhodes Scholar Education in One Hour
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 20,830. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Economic policy, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » History
(3.20 from 5 reviews)
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID explains in under an hour what truly matters in this (or any other) Presidential election. You’ll be able to identify the culprits responsible for economic theory and policy — and you’ll know why they’ve created this mess. In other words, you’ll be as smart as Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar for whom the catch phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” was coined.
Two Shorts (High Fidelity & Christmas Oratorio)
Price: Free! Words: 1,880. Language: English. Published: July 14, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Two Shorts by André Jute comprising Christmas Oratorio a tiny tale 1050 words & High Fidelity a Christmas flash 242 words both extracted from his work-in-progress Scenes from a Bizarre Life
The Survivor
Price: Free! Words: 5,700. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Who will eat Moira first, her husband or the wolves? "Tense and chilling read." — Icy Road
Stieg Larsson Man Myth & Mistress
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 44,610. Language: English. Published: May 31, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography
Is Lisbeth Salander a feminist — or a comic book avenger? Is her creator Stieg Larsson a feminist — or a prurient, violent hack? What is the Millennium Trilogy really about? Is it literature or vicarious violence and sex? Should Eva Gabrielsson be in charge of the Girl franchise? Should there be a second Salander Trilogy? Who built the Stieg Larsson myth, and is any of it true?
Iditarod a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 81,080. Language: English. Published: May 9, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
When Rhodes Delaney challenged James Alderston Whitbury III to a grudge match she chose the most grueling of all tests — the Iditarod: a lethal dogsled race across the perilous wastelands of barren Alaska. From the author of the novels Reverse Negative, Sinkhole, Festival and the textbooks Writing a Thriller and Grids, the Structure of Graphic Design.

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