Books by Tom Edwards

A World in Crisis is set in the year 2060, when the entire world has been plunged into chaos due to one hundred and fifty years of environmental bastardisation.The testing of atomic bombs brought unsustainable pressures on the earth''s mantle. The disasters of global warming were caused by unparalleled pollution and uncontrolled population growth.One man rediscovers a long-lost cave deep in the Blue Mountains of Australia and endeavours to isolate himself from the terrors of rising oceans and the chaos of humanity in its death throes. He sets out to record for posterity the events that brought the world to its sorry state.He describes the inundation by the seas over one fifth the world''s land mass, as well as how earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes kill millions.Violence in the streets overwhelms security forces, leaving gangs to rape and kill at will. Survivors wait and pray for the world to return to normality.A World in Crisis follows up the author''s previous book Lethal Legacy.Author Bio:Tom Edwards of New South Wales has written sixteen books, five of which have won awards. His motivation for writing this book is summed up in the statement inside the front of the book: "The ultimate test of man''s stupidity is when, in his grubbing for riches, he destroys the environment that sustains him."

Meet Jason Franklin, an MI6 agent seconded to Mossad, with orders to destroy ISIS bases in Lebanon. He encounters Judith, a feisty Israeli woman intent on exacting revenge on those who killed her family, and they reluctantly team up.Jason destroys a rocket launching site being excavated in a mountain. He is critically injured, so Judith is sent to a Hezbollah camp hospital to rescue him. She succeeds after a ferocious gun battle in which she also sustains some injuries.Losing face, the Hezbollah colonel arranges a fatwa on them, in which Judith, now married to Jason, is seriously injured. Jason returns to Lebanon to kill those ordering the fatwa.Trying to infiltrate an ISIS gang, he is discovered and undergoes torture. Once again, Jason needs rescuing.Tom Edwards was born in Hampshire, England. After completing his education, he served six years in the Fleet Air Arm branch of the Royal Navy. He was a news reporter on several newspapers and an engineer working on mines in South Africa, Zambia, and Namibia, finally settling in what was then Rhodesia. During the Rhodesian conflict, he joined the reserve branch of the security forces, where he served on border patrol and in the Marine Division. It was there he acquired the material for his first book, If I Should Die. This is his sixteenth book. He and a friend bought a thirty-foot boat and sailed around the world for four years, a trip beset by pirates and hurricanes. His adventures include being shipwrecked off the coast of New Zealand, and walking from the north of Scotland to Land's End in the south of England. He retired to Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.

How do we attain a life of excellence amidst a modern world that has provided so many technical advances yet in which we still suffer so much anxiety, depression, obesity and conflict? Cutting across cultural and religious barriers this unique book provides readers with practical tools in the daily art of living - useful to parents, teachers, mental health professionals, community workers and business leaders.

This is a series of short stories, most of which have a sting in the tail. Some are based on the true experiences of the author; some have been embellished, and some are purely fictional.The first story, The Entomologist, is true, and the conversation, which is full of malapropisms, actually occurred. Frappin'' the Wurzel, on the other hand, is entirely a figment of the author''s imagination. It depicts George, a bucolic Arcadian in a small English pub, who in an effort to maintain his reputation as the village prankster exploits the very obvious charms of an American tourist-an activity that would probably get him thrown in goal in a more enlightened society. Spider Loves Me and a Near Gaff introduces pathos into the mix, and most of the other stories have an unexpected ending that may intrigue or amuse the reader.The title of this book was inadvertently suggested to me by a charming lady while I was giving a talk to a library group. I had been narrating various yarns of events that had occurred during my lifetime and my audience appeared to enjoy them. During the tea break, the lady approached me remarking, "You are a storyteller!" I placed the wrong connotation on her comment and protested that they were all true. She hurriedly corrected my misunderstanding saying that she enjoyed my tales and that I should set them down in a book; this I have done.Many of the stories have an element of truth, painfully so. However, some are figments of my imagination, and some have been enhanced to give them humor or pathos. Most have a twist in the tale that may surprise or amuse the reader. I do hope you enjoy them.

This is not a pleasant book. It depicts the worst side of lifethe extreme cruelty of gangs that live off demeaning women. I did not like writing it, but I thought it needed to be exposed.A senior police officer runs afoul of the local boss of an international crime syndicate who has his wife gangbanged and beaten up. He vows retribution outside of the parameters of the law and hunts the gang down to exact his revenge. During his pursuit of the gang, he meets up with the brother of his wife, who is attached to an M16 and who has the same intention. Jason has been ordered to destroy the women-smuggling side of a massive crime syndicate based in America; they team up. The final chapter asks why the police do not clean up this appalling trade in humanity.

This book, Tom: The Life and Times of a Portsmouth Lad, is a story about the life and times of Tom Edwards.