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REEKS, Kerri

Jun 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Military, South Australia, War Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923386-87-7
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Cage of War

Can they escape the horrors of war, or will they consume them forever?

Captured by Viet Cong in late 1960s during the Vietnam War, Australian soldier James ‘Ned’ Kelly is imprisoned in a bamboo cage in the Mekong River, with fellow captive Brady. They’re eventually ‘rescued’ by a Special CIA Covert team.

They soon discover the rescue is part of an elaborate, corrupt and clandestine war tourism operation – ‘Tiger Hunts’, where wealthy Japanese businessmen pay to hunt & kill real VC soldiers. Kelly & Brady reluctantly join the ‘Tiger Hunts’, ultimately uncovering dark & suspenseful secrets, including war crimes, political assassinations, & drug trafficking tied to the covert teams. A catastrophic ‘Tiger Hunt’ leaves Kelly, Brady, & one Japanese ‘Tiger’ as the only survivors; they’re rescued & taken to a US Hospital ship to recover.

Years later, back to Australia, Kelly is settled on a small farm in the Adelaide Hills. A deadly chain of events is sparked, targeting Kelly, his veteran friends & loved ones. The fallout threatens to also expose the surviving ‘Tiger’, now a prominent Japanese politician, & the rogue CIA operations behind the ‘Tiger Hunts’.

To stop the violence escalating, Kelly teams up with old colleagues to expose the truth, bringing the dark past to light via exposure in the international media.

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About the author

KERRI REEKS was born in Adelaide in 1953 and spent his formative years in Broken Hill, Cockburn, and later Mount Gambier. At 18, he enlisted in the Royal Australian Army, qualifying as a Sapper in the Corps of Engineers. He trained in combat engineering, earthmoving construction, minefield clearance, and demolition-though he did not serve in Vietnam. After his military service, Kerri forged a diverse career. He became a multi-award-winning landscape gardener and later owned and operated both a restaurant and a hotel. For over 30 years, he has worked as a consultant in the oil and gas industry, travelling to more than 60 countries. During this time, he completed a Graduate Diploma and a Graduate Certificate in International Disaster Management. Drawing on his global experiences and the many cultural intersections he encountered along the way, Kerri researched and wrote Cage of War, a novel inspired by the Vietnam War. He now lives in the Adelaide Hills on a small acreage with his partner and their dog, Beau. When not consulting in the energy sector or working on his next novel, he enjoys landscaping and tending to his property.

KOVACS, Frank

May 15, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Biography, Memoir, Military, Psychology \ Mental Health, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923265-17-2
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Invisible Scars Somalia

 

A true story of an Australian soldier living with the effects of PTSD

Africa, 1984: Al-Shabaab militants succeeded in smuggling weapons and equipment into Somalia from Ethiopia, unimpeded. The US President Ronald Reagan authorised a shadow team of international soldiers to spy on the movement of rebels and arms fl owing into Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.

An Australian Regular Army soldier, together with two British military personnel, seconded by the US to join a CIA special agent and an Ethiopian female warrior to infi ltrate to Luuq, a rural town and staging area for Al-Shabaab rebels in Central Somalia, on a clandestine mission. Their call sign was ‘Delta One.’ Their secret and urgent mission was to observe the movement of rebel forces, their equipment, and ammunition, then report back directly to Langley. During the mission, the team needed to cover their own tracks in case the proverbial hit the fan.

Staying one step ahead of the rebels was easy, whilst racing against the clock, until the team wound up in a horrendous ambush against superior rebel forces.

For a nation, unaware of the effects combat has on its soldiers, life for the Australian soldier returning from Somalia became harder after discharge, as he battled the complexities of PTSD and alcoholism in civvy street. Haunted by the nightmares of his time in Africa and racked by guilt from driving his wife and family away. He discovers help at the Repatriation General Hospital, Psychiatric Ward 17, in Adelaide, South Australia.

However, there was another enemy at play. The lure of Soldier of Fortune work would set him in action again

BOSIO, Luca

Mar 17, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fantasy Fiction, Military, Science Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923386-30-3
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Expansion

When war comes to a head, what will you fight for?

Alone in a crime-filled city on a backwater system, Gallactor’s only drive in life is revenge.So, when he’s recruited by the Peoples Republic of Centric, a galactic superpower, he jumps at the chance to join a campaign set to restore justice to the worlds.

Now aligned with Centric – the side his father fought and died for – Gallator’s enemy becomes the Empire of Colin Erus, a dictatorship conquering planets and enslaving races. Gallactor surpasses the ranks and is met with special treatment
by General Aero, being gifted an exo suit of his own design and an ancient sword from a long-forgotten race. Gallactor is
moulded into the first super soldier and is teamed up with a close-knit group of Wyverns, elite soldiers who welcome him to military life and quickly make him one of their own.

Gallactor’s waking hours are a constant routine of training, skirmishes, and political farces, all gearing up to an unavoidable all-out war like no other. As he fights for what he thinks is right, Gallactor is put in situations that alter his perception of himself and the forces of ECE and Centric alike.

When the lines of right and wrong blur, Gallactor must decide whether he’s fighting for justice or becoming a pawn in a war of lies.

A, Inspector

Feb 10, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, History, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Memoir, Military, Queensland, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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ISBN 978-1-923386-76-1
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The Syria Scam

 

An insider look into Chemical Weapons, Geopolitics and the Fog of War.

Something horrid happened in the city of Douma in Syria on 7 April 2018. It was alleged to be an attack with banned chemical weapons, said to have killed more than forty terrifi ed civilians. The US, UK and France responded with punitive missiles and airstrikes.

But what did actually happen? And how does this relate to the other alleged chemical attacks by the Syrian regime?

Inspector A takes us on a journey through his investigations and travels in Syria during the conflict, and the political intrigue that has
caused bitter divisions among Member States at the UN and the OPCW, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog.

About the Author

 

Inspector A joined the UN-affiliated Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the first group of inspectors in 1997.

A chemical engineer with military experience, he soon became a foremost Inspection Team Leader conducting inspections around the world. He left in 2005 to continue a career in the chemical industry.

He joined the OPCW again in 2016 as part of the “rehire” scheme, aimed at bringing back experienced inspectors. He soon saw signs of the Syrian chemical weapons narrative being politicised. Inspectors started objecting but got nowhere.

Along with his UN passport, Inspector A has cheerfully carried British, South African and Australian passports. He wishes people would be honest and do the right thing, even in geopolitics. He knows this is naïve, nonetheless tried in two UN Security Council meetings to get his story across. He failed, gave up and wrote this book.

BOND, Stanley Arthur

Aug 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, History, Military, South Australia

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Twists Of Fate

This remarkable story, compiled by his daughter, draws from Stanley’s manuscripts, letters, and newspaper articles written throughout his life.

TWISTS OF FATE spans eighty-five years, from 1914 to 1999, chronicling Stanley’s incredible journey from orphan to farm hand, Medic and POW, and ultimately, a foreign correspondent. The narrative offers a contemporary journalistic account of global history, covering pivotal moments like the 1926 British General Strike, life in German POW camps, post-war Europe, and the civil wars and unrest in Greece, Palestine, and China.

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Born in the slums of London’s East End and raised as an orphan, Stanley Arthur Bond’s life took an extraordinary turn during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moving to a farm in New Zealand opened doors to work and study, setting him on a path of global travel and participating in and observing many of the twentieth century’s historic events.

JACOBS, Rex

Mar 28, 2024 | Adelaide, Australian, Biography, History, Military, South Australia

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a Soldier’s Diary

 

No. 33463 Cecil Howard Taylor 50th Battalion – 108 Howitzer AIF 1916-1919

‘an enemy plane was brought down today, Baron Von Richthofen was the pilot’ ‘the whole countryside was one huge flame of fire, what a battle – fear was found nowhere’ ‘so at daylight on Easter Sunday, we were baptised in shells and mud’ What a sight – dead – yes in every little trench and hole made by shells, there were dead – such is war’ ‘we ran together until a shell fell right down between us … ‘ ‘eleven times the Huns came afresh, and eleven times we withstood our ground – each time with less men and yet each time with more confidence’ ‘I cannot see what such folly war is, but for some suicide for any country – surely people were not
predestined to such giving and taking of lives’ ‘the few words I have written in this diary are as nothing compared to what might have been written’

Cecil Taylor.