NOT JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY - Softcover

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A love crime war drama.

Is it possible to deceive someone Intimately close by impersonating someone else? That is the proposition in Not Just Another Love Story. It is argued that nothing is impossible by couples who have just seen Twelfth Night at the Globe.

Bill Stanhope a young Squadron Leader in Pathfinder Force Bomber Command in World War 11, with a great deal of luck, has survived a staggering number of missions. Falling in love with Jane Curtis, a nurse tending his wounded Observer, Harry Watt, he proposes, expecting his next operation to be his last. Fifty percent never came back from the terror-filled skies over war-torn Europe. They marry. She had fallen for him too. Four days later, his Lancaster is shot up, a doomed fireball.

Years of flying around in the dark have not prepared him for life on the ground, every bit as hazardous and tragic, where four women decide his fate. The crime, the deceit, and the outcome await the reader.

'A very clever commentary on the limits and conventions of the crime novel from the way dialogue is dealt with -
a hurtling narrative.'
- Thomas Keneally

'I wish I had written it.'
- Julian Fox

About the Author

This first novel has come toward the end of a long career in broadcasting. The author has won three Prix d'Italia, on three continents with the BBC, CBS, and ABC. His attachments to CBC, Deutsche Welle, Bayerische Rundfunk, Radio Niederland, Utbildnings Radion, and the UN were challenging experiences.

A leading actor in the Golden Age of Radio and early television in Australia. He, along with so many, deserted the 'cultural desert' of R.G. Menzies for the UK, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Secret Service, and UFO. The Royal Variety Show, Superman, Woman of Substance, Life at Stake. Ultimately, multiple appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Always maintaining a broad interviewing career and making programs with the celebrated, the ignored, and the notorious. Idi Amin always wanted him! (Michael Jackson once asked him for his autograph. Michael was eleven.)

A former President of the National Union of Students, at a significant time for First Nation's Peoples, considerable experience at the UN, and with politicians in their own countries, combine with the present state of the political world, to provide the motivation for a forthcoming book. '? ? ? A New and True Democracy.'

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