Project Description
Millennium
Millennium is the spellbinding story of a horror reborn. A thousand years ago, a secret society of warriors was formed to create mayhem and cause destruction on demand. In modern times, this phenomenon is to rise again as a new organisation plots to wreak havoc across our world. The perpetrators have fought their way up from a deprived background to become seasoned professionals. Their clients dream dreams of power and vengeance which they cannot fulfil without expert help and guidance.
Ranged against this secret army is a disjointed opposition – individual characters who have entered the conflict by chance and who are further hampered by lack of knowledge. They don’t know what to look for, where to find it or when will be too late. They learn fast and they learn together, despite the international politics and the distances which threaten their cooperation. They have to depend on their own determination and a little luck to avert disaster.
The story reaches its zenith in West Africa, in the fledgling State of Millennium, the new country which was established by invasion in the year 2000 and which is still struggling to achieve acceptance on the world stage. The action builds towards a denouement in remote African savannah where the palatial folly of one man’s ambition is the setting for a plan which threatens all mankind.
Revenge!
Manaff was confronted by horror. The sun was blinding him but he could make out the image of his child, Tomas, and the small hand which was tilting the plastic bottle so that the warm liquid of cactus juice mixed with meths ran out in a steady stream, soaking his jeans and brief underwear to moisten his genitalia and surrounding body hair. Manaff had no time to react, not even to swear, before Tomas struck a match and dropped it into the very middle of the wetness.
Ambush!
Across the room in an armchair placed by the door, there appeared to be a figure, seated and motionless. It must be a trick of the gentle moonlight which was the only illumination. Unconscious of her nudity, Hannah advanced towards her bed to hit the master switch and light flooded over the room. Sitting there calmly with a grin on his handsome face was Nathaniel Habtumu, fully dressed in the same sharp suit which she remembered from earlier in the day. He spoke. ‘I like tall women with long legs and I’m knocked sideways when they’re wearing glasses. I see you keep them on – even in the shower!’
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Hope!
Simon was stretching with both arms vertically above his head when Hannah reached up to lock her fingers with his. ‘We’re tumbling, Si. We’re birds. We’re Bald Eagles, you and me. We’re beautiful, dominant, majestic. We cover vast distances but when we come home, it’s to a nest up high which gives us a terrific view of the world. We have a spectacular courtship. We lock talons and we fly together. We soar and sweep, we turn cartwheels and plummet at huge speed. We tumble together and pull out of our dive only just before we hit the ground. We are masters of flight and of our own survival.’
“Having read Julian Beale’s first novel, Wings of the Morning, I was very much looking forward to his second, and in Millennium I was not disappointed. This is a fast moving tale, which takes you from Africa to Europe, to the Far East and back. There is plenty of action, but an underlying story of the corruption which is endemic in Africa, and the way in which the people are manipulated by governments. But through all there is the author’s deep love of Africa and his deep knowledge of its problems.”
“Julian Beale does it again! A wonderful fast moving novel set in Africa which is a follow on from his first novel ‘Wings of the Morning’. A terrific read for those of you who have travelled to the ‘dark continent’ and have had experience of Africa first hand. I would thoroughly recommend both books and cannot wait for his third novel!!”
“A welcome sequel to “Wings of the Morning”. The pace is just right, the characters are strong and believable and above all the story line is well researched and credible. The blending of recent historical fact with fiction makes the whole story current, relative and above all – interesting. All in all, a thoroughly well written and enjoyable book with presumably further scope for a sequel?”