The world's newest thriller writer brings readers a dark secret from the past that threatens America. Owen MacDara must save the president and avert the overthrow of the U.S. government as America enters the 21st century. But Owen MacDara must die.

"I don't think that any of my poems need an introduction." I get most enjoyment from listening to a poet talk about the written work and the work in progress: why a poem was written, the spark that ignited the vision, the snatch of overheard conversation, the incident that retrieves a past memory, the choice of words and imagery, the simple scene transformed, the need to be a witness. _____________________________________ AWAKENING by Pat Mullan "Awakening is a collection of mostly anecdotal poems from incidences in the varied and interesting life of Pat Mullan, the Irish, sometimes American,...

Burnt-out lawyer Ed Burke flees New York, a failed marriage, and a high pressure career as a criminal attorney and returns home to Dublin, Europe's most happening city. Hand-in-hand with the new prosperity, a culture of ruthless corruption has taken root and threatens to pervade the highest levels of government in Celtic Tiger Ireland and the EU. Ed's new job, defending a prominent developer in a tribunal investigating the rezoning of prime residential property, draws him into the world of Ireland's elite movers and shakers who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. He is also drawn into...

This is the story of the creation and redemption of a terrorist. It is also a story of revenge. Only one man can stop the terror. Follow him as he moves with equal ease in the halls of power or the dark killing fields of international intrigue.

Two boys flee in terror across the grounds of their boarding school, on a night when the rain slices the air like sheets of broken glass and trees bend and groan under gale-force winds. Before midnight one will die, exposing a dark world, centuries old. Emmet Joyce rejects the school's assertion that his son died accidentally. With a Church surrounded by scandal, cover-ups within the Church, and failures to protect children in their care, the priests who run the school no longer command the unquestioning trust of their flock. Emmet trusts only one man to uncover the truth: his cousin, Ed...

This is not a poetry collection. Yes, there are poems here. And other writing too: Sicilian Odyssey, a long 'travelogue' that sets out to capture my visit to Sicily; in '$48 dollars and a battered suitcase' I get personal, capturing glimpses of my youthful escapade as an Irish emigrant to Canada and the USA. As I stated in the foreword to my last collection of poems, Awakening, I get most enjoyment from listening to a poet talk about the written work and the work in progress: why a poem was written, the spark that ignited the vision, the snatch of overheard conversation, the incident that...

Endings, the title of this collection of short work is well chosen. The heart of each lies in the ending. And some of these stories are the end of the beginning because they went on to grow into novels e.g. Tribunal is the start of my novel, Last Days of The Tiger. Many might be placed in the thriller or crime genre (because that dominates my work) but Facsimile is Science Fiction and I intend to grow it into a novel. Some of these are so short that I see them as vignettes of life, those slices of life that often have no beginning or middle, but do have an end. Under the Bougainvillea is a...

Corruption, Collusion, Conspiracy leads to one man's downfall. Fear, Hope, Despair take you from New York to Las Vegas in this fast, tense, tale. Revenge drives you to Asuncion, Paraguay. Jim Sharkey, a failed banker, is both the hunter and the hunted. Left to die in the Mojave desert he survives and seeks revenge. The flow of money through the global banking system was once his life-blood. Now it threatens to be his poison. London, Zurich, and the Isle of Man set the stage for the adrenalin-fueled climax.