Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Reconciliation for the Dead

Reconciliation for the Dead
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Angola, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the...

The Evolution of Fear

The Evolution of Fear
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. Wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit, his best friend has just been murdered and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed...

The Abrupt Physics of Dying

The Abrupt Physics of Dying
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Yemen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious...

Absolution

Absolution
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Egypt, East Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear and Reconciliation for the Dead. Claymore Straker returns in another gripping, page-turning, socially conscious thriller, with more at stake than ever… It is 1997, eight...

The Descent

The Descent
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Africa, Australia, Bora Bora, Madagascar, Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Future
  • Era(s): Late 21st century

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events...

The Forcing

The Forcing
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): North America, Australia, South America
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): mid 21st Century

Civilisation is collapsing. Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, a ‘government of youth’ has taken power in North America, and deemed all those older than a prescribed age responsible for the current state of the world,...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now