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Published 2010. Circles of Fear covers family feuds, music, love, sex, crime, corruption, murder, politics, wealth, power, the supernatural and the battle of Armageddon. Author Brian Cain has played blues harmonica for forty five years, sung and fronted boogie blues bands for thirty years. During that time he witnessed blues guitar players being exploited, shafted, robbed and usually thrown on the scrap heap. Sometimes he watched as they argued with venue managers over a few lousy bucks. Author Brian Cain has made a blues guitar player the most powerful person in the universe in a tale of the battle of Armageddon at the turn of the millennium. The extreme character of Jason Brinkly is one blues guitar player who has a win. A feel good story as he battles the normal boredom come fun life in a band and is thrown to the lions of darkness in the conflict of Armageddon. Carrying the sword of the cross from a most unlikely source he must rise from boredom, fight through disaster, wrangle with stardom and confront power, kicking arse all the way. Where will this lead him and can a humble blues guitarist overcome such odds?

Published 2011. Vigilante deals with family breakdown due to career commitment, government bungles, sanctions, assassination, murder, corruption, the power of gathered stashed confirmed information. The issue of charging front line military personnel under common law. It looks deeply into what lengths people will go to protect their own loved ones. It also visits the stolen generation and the reintroduction of aboriginal law. It challenges the safety of nuclear missile arsenals. Vigilante introduces the characters of John Stanton retired British MI6 operative and Cadiche a part aboriginal civil police officer both ruthless vigilantes. In a tale spanning the globe centred in Newcastle NSW Australia Stanton must stop a plot to take command of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal by Middle Eastern radicals and those driven by greed in the west. He must stay one step ahead of the authorities to succeed.

Due for release June 2011  The Sword and the Dagger follows the torrid life of Irish Pirate of the early 1800s Fial McMuirin during the Napoleonic Wars. Starting from the time he witnessed the Bantry Bay Expedition d'Ireland in December 1796 at the age of 12 with his father an Irish cattle farmer and member of the Society of United Irishmen. Fial's parents are murdered by the British army and he is brought up by a seaman in Cork harbour Donal McGuire who teaches him the art of celestial navigation and ways of the sea. Using his natural talents of seamanship he joins the British navy at the age of fifteen eventually fighting aboard HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. He studies the tactics of Lord Nelson and sir Francis Drake and modifies a Brigantine ship The Ghost of McMurrin turning on the British being declared a pirate with a price on his head capturing British politician William Wilberforce in the process. His ship has a black African crew and he dislikes the slave trade dedicating his life to putting an end to it as does Wilberforce and he returns Wilberforce to Westminster under the nose of the British. An angry young man turns into a force to be reckoned with and from a port in the Middle East builds a navy of pirate privateers. Wilberforce is successful in passing a bill making the carrying of slaves on British ships illegal. With his quest lacking meaning Fial McMurrin turns his private navy on the French with devastating consequences and he and his fleet are pardoned by the British. With his powerful fleet he takes the slave factory port of Soyo in the Congo negotiating with the Portuguese authorities in control of the area. McMurrin uses his black crew now speaking fluent English to educate the African slaves for rebellion. Many years later he is found by his son and taken back to Ireland.

Flaxmead. 

The Melbourne Cup, the race that stops the nation, the Australian Holy Grail of thoroughbred horse racing. Flemington racecourse is located in Melbourne, in the southern state of Victoria and is the most well known race track in Australia. Famous for hosting our greatest race the Melbourne Cup, on the first Tuesday in November every year, part of the spring racing carnival. It is one of the richest handicap events in the world. Racing began at Flemington racecourse in 1840 and such is its great history it was given national heritage listing in 2006.

            A hunter valley winemaker takes his family on a long weekend camping trip in the Barrington Mountains. His young children Anna and Dylan have a dream, to own a horse and win the Melbourne Cup. At the isolated camp site they find a giant dashing black stallion locked in a holding pen adjacent to the camping ground. The horse is befriended and obviously protective of children. At request of his children, Bob Fields the winemaker, over three days round the campfire, tells the story of a champion horse just like the one they had found.

            Winston Blake a powerful merchant banker from the UK, finds a thoroughbred foal in Ireland he believes to be a champion. The horse has a question over its bloodline and nobody wants to risk it, the foal is purchased for a pittance. With no horse racing experience at all he sets out on a quest in his retirement, planned in his mind for years. He once witnessed the Melbourne Cup in Australia with his daughter Rose, she has now been missing for years feared murdered in the town of Bowral, New South Wales. Efforts to find her have been fruitless, but he refuses to give up believing she is still alive.

            The foal grows into a fire breathing monster and indeed was a champion, he named it Flaxmead. The horse is trained in the UK by a horse whisperer and taken to Australia with one goal, to win the Melbourne Cup. Blake finds the Australian racing industry to be a dangerous and intimidating entity. Settling in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales to help friends with a newly acquired winery, Flaxmead goes missing.

            In an uncanny twist Anna and Dylan Fields acquire Flaxmead as a pet, they have no idea he is a trained, thundering record breaker, that would turn the Australian racing establishment upside down. Flaxmead bursts onto the scene at a hunter valley race meeting in Scone ridden by pint size teenage apprentice jockey Lindy Cumberland, alias the Pocket Rocket, launching the battle for the Melbourne Cup. Some powerful member's of the horse racing fraternity don't like what they see and go after them.

            Over three captivating days around the campfire the story is told and it's time to go back home. Bob and Marie Fields ponder how to separate the horse and their children now firmly in love with the towering steed. Stories are stories and this one was over, or had it just begun?