Sam North
http://www.samnorth.com
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About My Writing
The Next Great Flu Pandemic is coming. No one can
stop it.
Everything your Government said would protect
you is a lie.
In 1919 a worldwide flu pandemic killed 50
million people. The next pandemic could wipe out
as many as 500 million – the bad news, it might
already be here.
Reviews:
'It will keep readers in suspense, laced with
gritty-gallows humor'
Charlie Dickinson
'Beautiful, plausible, and sickeningly
addictive, Another Place to Die will terrify you,
thrill you, and make you petrified of anyone who
comes near you...'.
Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk
Available from Amazon.com & direct from the
publisher Lulu Press
also Waterstones in the UK
Background Brief :
Two hundred thousand people die suddenly in
China from a mutation of the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
Before the Chinese Government can contain it, it
is already literally flying around the world. It
gains a firm foothold on North America’s East
Coast – despite widespread use of antivirals and
a sophisticated ‘National Strategy for Pandemic
Planning’. Yet the vaccination needed to combat
this new lethal strain is at least four to six
months away.
Worldwide, economies are imploding. Vancouver’s
upcoming Winter Olympic plans are in ruins.
Homeland Security have already closed the U.S.
borders. Real estate everywhere is in free fall.
Rumours of mass burial sites already being dug
outside the city are circulating. Everyone is
afraid of each other and martial law has already
been imposed in some major cities in Europe and
the States.
Fen 15 and her restless family have already fled
to one of the many Gulf Islands off British
Columbia Mainland - but after just four weeks
they are going completely stir-crazy. To make
matters worse, Fen hears rumours of people going
from island to island burning and
looting.
Arno Lakis is a successful futures analyst in
Toronto, but he’s read the runes, seen the secret
mortality figures. He has made his choice. To
stay is to die. He flies West, on one of the last
flights before they close the airports. He
intends to find Rachel, a woman he met just once
at a conference. Rachel is his big plan. If you
can’t rescue the world – save the one you love.
Rachel’s job has already gone, and her apartment
building is in quarantine, she can’t live there.
Deka, the immigrant cabbie is one of the few men
confident he won’t get flu. He has shunned the
government’s antiviral TCH-5 and used Doc Borov’s
killer soup instead, a home made vaccine
developed by a former Russian virologist and ex
cabbie, who claims it will beat the virus. Doc
Borov runs a secret clinic from a Gastown art
gallery.
Vancouver is still functioning, seemingly secure
because everyone is vaccinated. The Premier is
reluctant to close things down, aware that fifty
percent of the population could be made
unemployed. The rich are leaving, their yachts
disappear at night.
This is a city on the verge of a nightmare,
reluctant to close it’s eyes for fear of what may
come.
There is a choice; hide away and hope to survive
it, or flee to remote locations. But beware, the
virus might get there before you. We discover the
truth, there are no lone heroes to save mankind
after all – it’s every man, woman and child for
themselves.
We are never more than three days away from
civic breakdown and the virus quickly exposes our
vulnerability. Cities die fast and all the
planning in the world can’t help when no one can
get to work and the power shuts down. Realistic,
plausible and relentless, Sam North’s 'Another
Place to Die' is a blueprint for anyone seeking
survival tips for the coming plague.
Another Place to Die – Lulu Press – ISBN:1-84753
899-1
$18 Retail
*Available from all good on-line booksellers
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| About Me
Sam North is the author of DIAMONDS- THE RUSH of '72 and
THE CURSE OF THE NIBELUNG – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.
This is his seventh novel. Sam is a former contributor to Elle Décor New York, editor of the
long running Hackwriters.com – the international writer’s magazine and he runs the Masters in
Creative Writing Programme at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
He divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and the UK.
Read the first Chapter of 'Another Place to Die' at Lulu
Press
http://www.lulu.com/content/472938
also available from Amazon.co.uk and Waterstones and Hatchards to order
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The Curse of the Nibelung - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Genre: Sherlock Holmes
Status: Available for Purchase
Buy the Book
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THE CURSE OF THE NIBELUNG
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
by Sam North
ISBN 1-4116-3748-8
$19.98 Retail
300 pages - Lulu Press USA
'Chocolate will never seem quite the same
again'
- Sunday Express
Holmes v The Third Reich
What is the greatest secret in
Nuremberg?
Revealed for the first time the great
detective's role in WW11.
December 1939
Germany and Great Britain are in the fog of
the phoney war. The First Sea Lord Winston
Churchill knows that England is not nearly
ready for the fight. Four British spies have
perished in strange circumstances in Nuremberg
trying to discover the biggest secret of the
Third Reich. Churchill turns to the only man
he knows who can solve the mystery. But Lord
Sherlock Holmes is now 83, Dr Watson even
older. Are they still up to it? They must
cross the Channel, pretend to be German
sympathisers. If caught, England will disown
them. Holmes accepts the challenge; indeed he
has been awaiting the call. They will solve
the mystery, or die in the attempt. Two
ancient men of England and one beautiful nurse
Cornelia Hainsely enter enemy territory. Their
loyalty will be tested, more than once, and
there is no one they can trust. The secret of
Nuremberg is far more sinister than even
Holmes could imagine; their chances of getting
back alive, very slim indeed.
'The Curse of the Nibelung- A Sherlock Holmes
Mystery' is available now. As featured in the
London Times March 8th 2006 times2 section.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk. Hatchards &
Waterstones to order
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