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Dan Coltrane, Asio field agent for the Australian government and Interpol crime investigative officer meets his nemesis from a previous encounter while in London working on a code break-in case involving confidential government information. He discovers that the United Displaced Persons organisation working out of Eastern Europe is intent on forming an invasion fleet of homeless immigrants...

Greg Langford, an Australian Government Security Officer is onboard an Airforce jetliner returning invaluable Egyptian artefacts to Cairo from Canberra. Suddenly a ground to air missile fired by Somali terrorists locks on to them and a few terrfying minutes later the aircraft is hit and crashes in the Somali desert. Langford and his friend Barry Wilder are the only two crew to survive the crash...

Dan Coltrane finds himself caught up in a Chinese Communist government effort to purchase large areas of Australian real estate in cities across Australia.The purchases are not illegal, but the method by which they become available is suspect and this is where Coltrane's investigation starts. It soon becomes apparent to Coltrane that Australian politicians at a federal and state level are...

The pink Kimberley diamond from the mines of Western Australia are the most valuable gemstones in the world. The Diamond industry thrives around Lake Argyle and it attracts all manner of men intent on making their fortune. Graham Biel is one such individual keen to find riches as quickly as he can and he allows nobody or anything to stand in his way. Brian Doyle is of a similar persuasion and...

The peaceful Hillarys marina environment is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Harry Josephs, a small time hoodlum from Liverpool England. Josephs quickly establishes a protection racket around the marina businesses with two violent hirelings who work for him and demand a monthly stipend for business protection. With the easy money quickly multiplying, Josephs decides to enter the world...

Dan Coltrane is completing an assignment aboard an Australian warship investigating arms smuggling out of China when he is redirected to Mogadishu on the coast of Africa. With his newly met Naval officer friend Craig Aspen, both men discover a plan by hartched by a terrorist group to weaponise the Ebola virus and use it against the Australian mainland population. The information launches...

A threatening email arriving on Dan Coltrane's home computer one morning leads him into a world of murky banking practice and illicit finance. One finance conglomerate is engaged in the purchase of high art paintings for sale on the world-wide black market. Coltrane pursues Felix Blanchard, the CEO of a major Australian Bank and finds that he is charging illegal and fraudulent fees from every...

Dan Coltrane has been assigned to find out how scammers are taking so much money off Australian business investors and uncovers a vast empire of illicit business dealings primarily involved with the world wide supply of vaccines. His chase leads him to Egypt where some of the most effective vaccine ingredients come from the feared and deadly King Cobra's found around the nile pyramids. Coltrane...