David Callinan

Biography

David Callinan is a novelist and musician/songwriter. He is the author of the sci-fi classic 'Fortress Manhattan' and has recently released the first of a thriller series featuring ex assassin, ex cop and ex monk, Mike Delaney titled 'The Immortality Plot'. Other near-the-knuckle thrillers include: 'Knife Edge'; 'An Angel On My Shoulder' and 'Bodyswitch'.

He has re-released the bestselling holistic guide to health, wealth and happiness 'The 10-Minute Miracle'.

He also writes for young adults and children. The first of his scientific/magical, dystopian trilogy 'The Kingdoms Of Time And Space' has been published' 'Kingdom Of The Nanosaurs' and also the first in a chapter book series for 7-10 year olds 'The Weather Kids And The Rainbow Superhighway'.

David Callinan is Anglo-Irish, born into a family from Limerick in the west of Ireland who grew up in the UK. After busking all over Europe he rediscovered Irish music and formed The Spalpeens playing all over the UK, Europe and Ireland touring with The Dubliners, Sweeney's Men, The Chieftains and many others.

He appeared in films such as The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn) and Sinful Davey (John Hurt) and scores of television advertisements (was even directed by the late, great John Huston).

Later, he formed Urban Clearway, touring and performing with artists such as Elton John, Billy Connolly, Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry.

He co-wrote a Celtic rock opera for the Edinburgh Festival. 'Pucka-Ri' starred a young Pierce Brosnan and became one of the hits of the Fringe, before transferring to the Arts Theatre in London.

Latterly, an earlier spacey, folk-rock album, 'Freedom's Lament', recorded by Callinan-Flynn, has emerged as a highly sought after title on the Internet - and new wave Irish chanteur Sean Tyrrell has recorded a number of his songs on recent albums.

All David's books are available via his website as are downloads of recent music tracks and earlier, 60s, material.

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Series

Mike Delaney action thrillers
Mike Delaney is an ex-US assassin, former cop, and part-time monk with the Brothers of Light. Now he helps out with the citizens' crime-busting website confess-confess, bringing redress and vengeance to the victims of crime. He has sworn not to kill again, but live a more spiritual life – but life has a habit of putting him in the wrong place at the right time.
Captured
Price: $0.99 USD.
The Exterminator
Price: $4.99 USD.
Never Say Die
Price: $2.99 USD.
Torn Apart
Price: $2.99 USD.

Books

The Exterminator
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 68,620. Language: American English. Published: October 3, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Action-packed Mike Delaney thriller as the ex-assassin, ex-cop, and ex-warrior monk is targetted for extermination.
Captured
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 18,420. Language: English. Published: May 7, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Mike Delaney – ex-assassin, ex-cop and ex-monk with the Brothers of Light comes to the rescue of a woman he passes on the street. He watches her being abducted, powerless to intervene, until he finds she had planted a clue in his jacket pocket as she passed him.
Dark Thriller Triple Box Set
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 311,160. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
For fans of Dean Koontz, John Saul, Clive Barker, Stephen King Dangerous, obsessive, paranormal, suck-in-your-breath, dark and disturbing thrillers
Torn Apart
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 107,760. Language: English. Published: December 11, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Identical twins unable to avoid their destinies. Will they both survive?
Mike Delaney Triple Thriller Box Set
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 134,720. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
He's Irish-American. He was a covert U.S government assassin. He's been a Hong Kong cop. And he's been a warrior monk with the Brothers of Light. Now he's a footloose trouble magnet.
One False Move (a Mike Delaney Thriller)
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: Free! Words: 10,210. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
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Four hours to save a wheelchair-bound man from an electrifying ea]] Four hours to save a wheelchair-bound man from death.
The 10-Minute Miracle
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 34,940. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Beauty & fashion
Beat Recession Depression. Read this bestselling holistic guide to health, wealth and happiness reissued as an ebook.
The Weather Kids
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 136,550. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction
Chapter books for children 7-10 years of age. First book in series:' The Weather Kids and the Rainbow Superhighway' Linzi Lightning (USA), Tommy Thunder (Australia), Rebecca Rain (UK), Wu-Shi Wind (China), Sofia Snow (Russia) and Sami Sunshine (Brazil) are the Weather Kids. They are given special powers over the weather by The Weather God but must use their powers to help people and the plane
The Vanishing
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 89,600. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
First book in the YA fantasy trilogy 'The Creation Game''. Morgan Lane (15), his sidekick, Lin Rainbow and pet orangutan, WInston, must reprogram the omniverse and protect 'The Cosmic Algorithm' and the secret of reversing climate change from a possessed scientist after the animal kingdom vanishes from Earth.The scientist creates Nanosaurs - replacement artificial animals.
An Angel On My Shoulder
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 83,140. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Spiritual/Metaphysical thriller. For fans of Dean Koontz, John Saul, Clive Barker.
Knife Edge
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 112,790. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The year's most terrifying psycho thriller. The craving never ends 'Make me beautiful, make me beautiful…" Ella Fallon makes this secret wish every night She and her lover Ed Leeming were born brilliant but ugly and their lives made a misery at California's most exclusive college by Scott Stockton, leader of 'The Beautiful Elite'. Stockton has it made. He is heir to an industrial multinational
Bodyswitch
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 115,870. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
If you think your body belongs to you – think again. Jack Madigan is made an offer no human being has ever received. The chance to say goodbye to his dead wife beyond the grave. Her life was brutally cut short and her killer died with her. Jack can see his wife one last time. But there is a price to pay. Another soul must be allowed to occupy his body and given a chance of redemption. Guess who
Never Say Die
Series: Mike Delaney action thrillers. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 114,990. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
They murder scores of young women and steal their DNA. They think their freakish assassin will never be caught. That's their first mistake. Then they kill Mike Delaney's pregnant wife – a journalist close to uncovering their terrifying global plot. That's their second mistake. Ex assassin, cop and warrior monk, Delaney swore never to kill again. Now he has no choice but to break his vow.