Author of thrillers, crime, speculative fiction and literary fiction
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Imagine...you are lying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking forward to a day of solitude, maybe binge-watching Netflix, when an incessant knock at your door forces you to abandon your warm quilt. A delivery service hands you a package, which is strange enough on a Sunday morning. You open it and find an opaque disc and a card inviting you to participate in a focus group starting that very morning.
Of course, you dismiss it as a prank, abandon all hopes of crawling back into bed and make yourself a cup of coffee, when suddenly, the odd-looking disc starts to vibrate and the holographic image of stunningly beautiful woman appears, standing right in front of you, the moderator of the focus group, who announces that the interview will begin in thirty minutes.
What would you do? Would you take the plunge, engage in the focus group or would you decline the invitation?
Finn Baas, a Dutch investigative journalist, driven by an insatiable curiosity, decides to take the leap of faith and accepts the invitation from the holographic woman despite the admonishment of his girlfriend, Evi, who shows up and insists it is a scam.
What ensues is a thought-provoking discussion with ten other people from around the globe, deep-diving into critical issues about humanity, with an ending that no one could have seen coming.
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Mia Chen, head of the LISEA project, short for Life Search, a unit in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is contacted one day by a man, a very large man, who informs her that he is from another world and is seeking asylum in her world, but he needs her help to do it because it comes with a serious condition.
Jim Tale, captain of the Evolution, is on a mission to colonize a new planet before nuclear war destroys Earth, but what he finds when he gets there is nothing they expected.
Jared, a university student visiting Calcutta, discovers quite by mistake, a brothel with children where he finds 11-year-old Hann'Sha, and makes it his mission to free her - but to do so he must face a brutal human trafficking ring.
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Marilyn Monroe supposedly died from an overdose, or so the story goes, but 50-years after her death, a strange phenomenon occurs and her tomb rattles and opens, and Marilyn emerges just as as fresh and beautiful as the day she died. She's been given a 2nd chance, and she intends on telling the world what really happened on the night she 'died'.
Morrie Norris, a young boy, runs away from his home and makes it to Sweden in search of Agnetha Fältskog, his icon from the pop band, ABBA. Morrie is determined to get the group back together to do a live concert, and everyone he meets along the way tells him it will never happen, but Norrie is not deterred despite being searched for by police in two countries.
