Novel Excerpts

No Reason to Live This novel is, as yet, unpublished. It’s a follow on from my earlier work and features the same main character. This is Chapter 1: Chapter 1 The man was all over the road and Mike had to swerve several times to avoid colliding with him. The man seemed to be signalling him to stop and in the event, he had little choice. The road was slick after some light rain and as it was his first day in his new car, he hadn’t yet gotten used to its handling. Luckily the t

No Need to Sleep – excerpt: This novel explores the murky world of people trafficking. Prologue: The first night was always the hardest. The second, even though he was tired, got easier. By the third night, he was wired; totally alert; switched on; all senses operating at hyper level. He didn’t know how or why it happened this way, but after seventy two hours without sleep, Kyle Shepherd was unbelievably creative, instinctive, sensitive, aware of and in harmony with his surr

This novel explores the general apathy amongst most Russian people for their fellow citizens. The problem is that eighty years of communism, which was effectively a totalitarianism reign of terror, left people not knowing who, if anyone to trust. While Russian people in general are not uncaring in their immediate circle of family and friends, it never goes beyond this. During the years of the great terror, they could not afford it to. The main street of Novosibirsk in Winter,

This novel is mainly set in Kiev and is about the dismay of Russian commanders as they see the Soviet Union disintegrating around them. They resolve to do something about it. In reality, one of them, Vladimir Putin, actually did. Kiev, Ukraine, January 1998: Colonel General Igor Pavlovich Yavlinsky was not a happy man. As he gazed out of the seventh floor window of his office on Krechatik, the main street of Kiev, he pondered on what might have been; what should have been. H

Introduction: I first came to Russia over thirty years ago. Then, it was just emerging from being a mainly closed society with severe restrictions on travel. In the meantime, it has changed hugely. I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to live and work here for many years and I have found the country fascinating. As it is still a requirement to apply for a visa to visit Russia, tourism has been slow to develop so this is still a largely unexplored land. Author in

Introduction: One of the reasons I set up this website was to gauge the reaction to my writing so as to assess the possibility of publishing another novel. I’ve gotten lots of feedback, mainly in relation to shorter articles but I guess these things take time, so I’ll persist. For now, here are some extracts from another novel I’ve written. It starts in Hong Kong, where I lived for a time in the 1990’s. Being a novel, it is of course fictional, but some of the characters are

This book is still in draft form and is as yet untitled. The working title I have given it is ‘Famine Book,’ but someone may yet come up with a more creative title. :) Prologue: “1847 was the year it all began deadly pains of hunger drove a million from the land they journeyed not for glory their motive wasn’t greed a voyage of survival across the stormy seas.” Ireland is situated as the western outpost of Europe — if you go west from there, you don’t hit land again until you

This novel examines the phenomenon of people who disappear, some who want to and most who don’t. Enclosed are the prologue and the first two chapters: Prologue: It is extremely difficult to hide; short term is possible of course, but permanently is almost impossible, particularly if you belong to the class where someone with resources wants to find you. Nat Cleary was firmly in this category. He had killed a senior Ndrangheta mafia boss on contract, but not before he had extr

No Chance to Dream: This novel is also unpublished. Here is a synopsis of the book, the prologue and the first three chapters. Synopsis of ‘No Chance to Dream’ by Liam Flood: The third novel in the ‘Mike Lyons’ series sees the former detective finally enjoying life in the Florida sunshine. Then he is asked by a friend to trace Del, a missing person. The man worked as a carpenter and was given to drinking binges and wandering off so the case seems straightforward but proves fa

Although similarly titled to some of my previous novels, this book is set in Bosnia during the 1990’s at the height of the Bosnian war. Attached are a synopsis and the first chapter: The war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1996 was among the most brutal conflicts ever seen in Europe. People could not believe that such heinous and sub-human acts thought to be consigned to history, could still happen in modern day Europe. But they did…. Drazen Itsakovic is a simple farmer; all he has ev

Cover of "No Margin for Error" This book was published in 2012 and received good reviews in the Sunday Times and Sunday Independent plus from many on line readers. It is still available from Amazon and other vendors. Here is a review and the prologue: The debut novel  No Margin for Error  by Liam Flood is a fast paced thriller which offers the reader an insight into a new world order in which the current social and economic paradigm is replaced with a new ideology in which fo