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My name is Lionel Ross I write stories

Entertaining Stories and Thought-Provoking Stories

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MEN OF CONVICTION

An exciting new thriller from Lionel Ross

978-0-9560369-3-3                                              £7.99

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'This is not only a thrilling read but it cleverly and humorously presents an informative and realistic picture of the dark side of our reality.' Frank Shapiro author of 'God's Elect.'

Lionel Ross, in his fourth novel ‘Men of Conviction’ tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day.  They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad, Wayne the burglar and Dovid the religious Jew and ‘one offence fraudster.’ Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.                  

Hussein, predictably, builds a shadowy Jihadist organisation with the intention, through terrorism, of creating the Caliphate of Britannia under Shari’a law. Wayne is determined to change his life and almost accidently finds himself the owner of a chain of Massage Parlours. By his previous standards, this is the path to wealth and respectability                     

Dovid, on the other hand, with the aid of his wealthy grandfather, becomes a successful property developer.       

The action takes place in such contrasting locations as 21st century Manchester, Istanbul, Afghanistan, Belfast and a mysterious breakaway Islamic republic.  The contemporary background to the plots ensures the airing of such issues as Islamist and Irish terrorism, religious intolerance and drug trading. The main characters are easily recognised as typical members of today’s British multi-cultural society.                                                                                                   

As the cataclysmic ending approaches, the paths of the three main characters are destined to cross again in an epic and amazing ending.

 

THE BAGHDAD DECLARATION

by Lionel Ross

 

978-0-9552404-3-0                                                                                £8.50

 

When British Sergeant Craig Blackburn unearths two ancient scrolls, buried in the sand inside the mysterious Cave of Ibrahim, in the Iraqi desert he has had no idea of the incredible chain of events that he is setting in motion. He photographs the texts and re-buries the scrolls inside the cave.

Lionel’s amazing mix of characters include members of the Israeli and British security services, an Iraqi Professor, a Southern Baptist Minister, a Jordanian Prince and an Al Qaeda group. They are all involved in a breathless race against time to discover the location of the scrolls and to keep their contents away from the world’s media. Each, however, has very different reasons for suppressing this news.

All this takes place against the backdrop of the never-ending catalogue of violence and tragedy in today’s Middle East

 

HIDDEN HERITAGE by Lionel Ross .978-0-9552404-1-6.                                                                      £8.50 Hidden Heritage spans five hundred years of European and Middle Eastern history. It is the story of two Spanish Jewish families, the wealthy Alvaros & their cousins the Mendozas, forced to flee their homeland in 1492.   After many adventures on the high seas, including an attempted rape where the intended victim kills her assailant, a mutiny and wild and stormy weather they are shipwrecked on the coast of South Western Ireland (Co. Kerry.) They are marooned there and forced to build some kind of a life in their new bleak environment.  The story then leaps forward to the late twentieth century as it becomes the tale of two families of Southern Irish shepherds, the Allbarrows and the Meadows. Hidden Heritage then describes the defining moments of how and when they lost their Jewish identity and became the fanatical Roman Catholics that you meet in the two families in the present day. You will learn how Jose Alvaro, the Spanish-Jewish Grandee came to be an ancestor of Joseph Allbarrow who deserted his simple stone cottage in 1992 to join the Irish Army and found himself in modern day Israel, as a member of UNIFIL.  You will then discover how he became a hero in a skirmish with Hizbullah that nearly cost him his life and of his romance with Israeli diplomat Dalia Mendoza. You will also learn of the priceless holy scroll that miraculously survives the centuries and accompanies the families on their journey through history.

 

FINE FEATHERS by Lionel Ross. 

978-0-9552404-2-3.                                                                     £8.50

Andy Fine is a brilliant, unscrupulous young businessman. He transforms his father’s Manchester based textile company into a huge corporation. He agonises about his sexual orientation. Andy’s arrogance eventually results in the loss of his job. Andy’s father, Rube, is blackmailed after the mysterious death of his mistress. Andy meets New York banker Mario Franconi and becomes head of the London branch of Franconi’s bank. What is Franconi’s background? Why does the bank crash? Valerie, Andy’s ex-wife, meets Charles, a religious Jew. They fall in love. Charles asks Valerie to convert to Judaism to marry him. What secret is Valerie’s mother guarding? Will it affect her daughter’s life and happiness? Andy is forced to sell his home. A mysterious lady arrives at the eleventh hour to make an unusual offer! Could this be his salvation?

 

 

*Please watch out for my new story due to be published later this year