Ben Hood Thrillers Series

St. Helena Island in Queensland’s Moreton Bay, was a prison to some of the most vicious and dangerous criminals in Australia during the early 1900’s. Many are buried there, some thrown down a deep well and left to die in agony. An old house now stands over the well. The house is empty. The old couple who lived there are dead. Some say it’s haunted. Someone is trying to burn it down. Ben Hood is hired to guard the house by the stunningly beautiful granddaughter of the deceased couple. It’s supposed to be an easy job. Dead easy.

Ben Hood isn’t all that comfortable with BDSM practices. He’s never actually spanked anybody, and no-one has ever spanked him! When the body of his work partner’s brother is found washed up on the beach of a small island off the coast of Far North Queensland, with a dog collar and chain around his neck, Ben finds himself dragged into a dark, dangerous world where only his special fighting skills and ability to survive against the odds, can keep him and others alive.

When your children are kidnapped, a mother will do almost anything to get them back alive. She will follow the instructions of the kidnapper to the letter, no matter how revolting those demands may be. VIP operative, Ben Hood, is not given instructions to take on this kidnapping case and the desperate mother doesn’t want him interfering and risking the lives of her children. As usual, Ben has other plans that may place the lives of the children at serious risk, but will turn the kidnapper’s life into a deadly nightmare.

Why would anyone want to blow up an entire Australian town? How would they get their hands on sufficient explosives to even undertake such a task? Why would ex police detective Ben Hood end up in the middle of this town at the same time as the bomber is preparing to unleash devastation? Can an outcast, 12 year old Aboriginal girl be of any assistance to Ben in finding a way to resolve an impending catastrophe? An Explosive Affair holds all the answers.

It’s just another one of those ‘easy’ VIP security assignments for ex detective Ben Hood. This job couldn’t possibly land him in the crocodile infested Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, attempting to rescue the kidnapped wife of a member of the Australian Federal Parliament, or get him tangled up with Islamic terrorists trying to launch a horrific attack inside Parliament House. It just couldn’t happen...not to Ben Hood!

The flesh traders kidnap daughters of the wealthiest people in the world, ship them secretly to Australia, brainwash and terrorise them before selling them as sex slaves in an exclusive underwater resort. Parents are forced to make regular ransom payments, or have their daughters killed. Only ex-detective Ben Hood (desperately attempting to take a relaxing holiday) could accidently stumble into an operation so sinister and dangerous. They know he knows. They have engaged the most bizarre and deadly hit man in Australia to take him out. Only a crazy person would attempt to smash this operation and try to rescue any of these girls. Then again, this is Ben Hood and they say he is a little crazy.

Ex Detective Sergeant Ben Hood, now a VIP protection operative, finds himself the target of a twisted serial killer when he is sent to protect Far North Australian Socialite, Merinda Jerome. Bodies and body parts are turning up in the deadly and ghostly caverns of Black Mountain. A graveyard is robbed. The killer seems to be two totally different identities. Perhaps he is white, or perhaps black. He is always one step ahead of Police and always too close for comfort. He uses a variety of unusual killing techniques. The man hunt is on, but who is hunting who?

All Ben Hood wanted was a quiet holiday by the sea. He didn’t want to spend time protecting beautiful women, repeatedly getting into fights or analysing bizarre death scenes. He didn’t want to be stalked and shot at by a hit man. Ben therefore, picked a remote coastal town in Australia where none of these things could possibly happen. Guess what?

She’s blonde and beautiful. She’s wild and unpredictable. She’s mentally fragile, unstable and abused. She’s highly skilled in nuclear fission technology and knows how to build an atomic bomb. Fanatics will use her in order to destroy one of the largest cities in Australia and cause catastrophic loss of life. When her rebellious social life leads to club brawls, Ben Hood is hired to keep her out of trouble. Ben is assured it’s just another simple VIP protection job. They should have hired someone else.

Ben Hood is an ex Police Detective and currently a VIP protection agent. He’s not prone to taking crap from anyone. If a job has to be done, he’ll do it and he’ll do it his way even if rules have to be broken. Very different women are having dreams about the most expensive Blue Diamond in the world. Ben has his own particular dream about this diamond. Parts of dreams begin to weave a fabric of credibility as to the current location of the Blue Diamond and this attracts the attention of those who would stop at nothing to have the diamond as their own. One of the very attractive female dreamers has gone missing...believed kidnapped. Ben’s assignment is to find her. It takes him from Sydney to Port Macquarie in northern New South Wales and thence to the watery grave of the S.S. Yongala, over 50 metres beneath the sea off the coast of Townsville in Far Northern Queensland. There Ben has to deal with the ghost of a teenage girl who died on board the Yongala in 2011. His contact with that long dead teenage girl is his key to finding the Blue Diamond.

Put this mix together..... An ancient schooner laden with stolen gold and opium, wrecked against a treacherous part of the Australian coast. A wreck diver vanishes while searching for the undersea treasure. Corrupt government officials and police crawling over each other to get their hands on the treasure. Hired killers prepared to murder anyone who gets in the way of them finding the treasure. Ex detective Ben Hood is sent to protect the stunning daughter of the missing diver and the diver’s wife. The lure of treasure often brings out the worst in normally good people. It unleashes suffering and death by the hands of normally evil people. Ben is once again pushed to the limits of his fighting skills together with personal and emotional endurance.

Ex Police Detective Ben Hood was trained and experienced in the deadly art of Ninjutsu. His teacher often pitted his skills against other students of the fighting art. The beautiful and strangely complicated Italian woman gave little away during their training sessions. When she later went missing, Ben was hired through the VIP protection agency that employed him, to find her. It should have been a fairly easy job. What Ben didn’t initially know, was that this woman was the wife of a senior member of the Australian mafia, operating in a large NSW country town. Ben’s attempts to locate her would bring him on a collision course with men who kill when strangers poke their noses into activities of the mafia, either personal or business. What the mafia boss doesn’t understand however is that he is not dealing with just another law abiding VIP protection agent. He is dealing with Ben Hood. Ben rarely follows the rules, making him unpredictable and dangerous.

Ben Hood is hired by a beautiful Sydney model to investigate what she believes is a haunting in her house which overlooks a notorious suicide cliff at The Gap, Watsons Bay. This treacherous location also claimed the lives of 121 men, women and children in a shipwreck in 1857. Someone seems to have invited the spirits of some of the dead from The Gap into the basement of the model’s home. One of the spirits is an angry vengeful man who seeks revenge on anyone he can get hold of because of his murder in 1973. Ben’s initial scepticism turns to fear when he realises that his martial arts skills are of little use in protecting him from a powerful force hiding in the darkness that wants him dead.

There is a special government facility near Mudgee, NSW, west of Sydney, where those who are considered a threat to public safety are ‘corrected’. Some are released back into the community. Ben Hood is hired by a Mudgee resident to investigate a spate of cat killings. The cat killings progresses to homicide. The race is on to find the killer before it escalates to something quite horrific.

Two little girls from Charters Towers in Far North Queensland are abducted during the night and vanish. Torn and bloodstained remains of one girl’s dress are found on a remote roadway. There is no ransom demand and no contact by the girls or their abductor. After almost 2 years missing, the Coroner gives a finding that both girls are dead. Ben Hood is hired by one of the distraught mothers to go over the available evidence. Ben isn’t used to working by normal investigative rules so buried secrets are quickly unearthed and a dangerous search begins for the girls, dead or alive.

Ben Hood is reunited with the stunning Samantha Cruz, her sensual and provocative younger sister Irene, and their grandmother, Ivy Cruz as he visits Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia, to investigate fraudulent activity involving the Cruz family fortune. Deception, lies, death, witchcraft and the spirit world collide around Ben as he sets out (with some unexpected and lethal help) to bring the offenders to the kind of justice that only Ben Hood knows and understands.

Witches.... Prostitutes...!! Why would Ben Hood be sent to offer his professional VIP services to women like that...especially when one of the women is accused of killing a man and hanging his body from a tree branch near the town of Younghusband, on the Murray River in South Australia. This rather weird assignment turns very deadly as Ben is drawn into a web of deceit, hatred and bitter revenge.

The mansion, WINTERWOOD was built many years ago over a disused and mostly forgotten graveyard in Katoomba, New South Wales. A malevolent spirit with dangerous power is on the loose in the mansion. A police detective has already been savagely attacked by this spirit and is now in a mental institution. Ben Hood is hired to protect those who live in the mansion, and deal with the dead, if he can survive the task.

The Pilbara in the searing heat of barren Western Australia is not a place for the faint hearted. Billions of dollars are made from mining iron ore for sale to the world. Who would care if two Aboriginal men are murdered so that someone can get their hands on a mine owned by a beautiful widow? Ex Police Detective Ben Hood ends up in the middle of a brutal family war which plunges him into The Pilbara Affair.

The Daintree Rainforest wilderness in Far North Queensland can be a dangerous place at the best of times. Crocodiles are ferocious hunters and if the crocs don’t get you, something else might. Ben Hood is sent to the Daintree to find a missing girl. He quickly learns that crocodiles are the least of his problems.

Ben reluctantly accepts an assignment to visit a small island in Fiji. The beautiful owner of a Hedonistic resort on Volo Levu is being bullied into selling to a man who will stop at nothing including murder to get this island away from her. Police corruption is rife. Ben’s attempt at obtaining justice for his client puts his own life dangerously on the line.

One of Ben’s former work colleagues is brutally murdered; his body dumped into Lake Parramatta. Ben feels he should investigate, notwithstanding resistance from police. He is led into a dark world of high-class prostitution coupled with strong inducements for Australian clients to participate in a Chinese based business trying to establish deep footholds within Australia. These clients find the entire Chinese package, Irresistible. A ruthless killer in their midst is possibly the least of Ben’s problems.

She went to a commune where voodoo and witchcraft are practiced. She was young and wild and vulnerable. Then she vanished without a trace. Ben Hood was enticed out of retirement to try and find this girl. His search in Far North Queensland, would lead him into a world of evil spirit worship and voodoo, and an environment of danger which would test every skill he possessed.

Anyone would be greatly concerned when a beautiful young woman is abducted and locked away in order for criminals to obtain a benefit to which they are not entitled. If the beautiful young abducted woman happens to be a close friend of Ben Hood, the criminals may have just bitten off more than they can chew.

Someone in this very exclusive swingers club is out for revenge. Club members are brutally killed. Ben Hood is hired initially to protect rich and beautiful women in this club but suddenly he becomes one of the prime targets for the killer. In order to identify the killer, Ben is forced to mix with club members and in the main, beautiful women. The killer is sly and careful and works in the dark with a knife. Ben travels to Bali, Vanuatu and Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef during his rather reluctant involvement in tracking down the killer of the Loveless.

A beautiful young Chinese reporter vanishes while investigating suspicions that uranium is being illegally mined by Chinese at the abandoned Mary Katherine mine in Far North Queensland. A Chinese film crew visit the area while making a movie re-tracing the steps of the missing reporter. There are those who want this movie to be made for both financial and political reasons and others who will kill to stop it. Ben Hood is hired to protect the cast and crew. They are all walking into a treacherous plot involving political Chinese power brokers who will stop at nothing to destroy the current Chinese government with nuclear weapons if necessary. If Project Dragonfly succeeds it could alter world history and not necessarily for the best.

The discovery of a body in a creek not far from Sydney and a royal necklace stolen from the collection of the King of Tonga eventually leads Ben Hood into an assignment where he encounters dangerous people, beautiful women and an exotic coral island in the Kingdom of Tonga. Ben faces the challenge of remaining alive and keeping his client safe with his usual flair for breaking rules and tackling dangerous people head on.

Deep in the cold dark limestone caverns of the South Australian coastline, drugs worth millions of dollars are being smuggled inland from ocean caves. An experienced diving instructor becomes suspicious and her mother is concerned enough to hire ex police detective Ben Hood to watch her. Ben enrols in her cave diving course which ultimately leads them both into a dark sinister world where deception and death are frequent stalkers. Ben is forced to deal with ruthless businessmen, professional killers both male and female and a stunning police detective who shows an intense interest in his activities and takes him to limits that have nothing whatsoever to do with the subterranean world.

Ben Hood is a suspended Australian Police Detective. He joins a VIP protection company and is sent to exotic Port Douglas in Far North Queensland to watch over a breath taking, upcoming starlet, Brenda Grant and her American film crew as they make a movie on the Great Barrier Reef. He never expected to get within a million miles of this amazing woman in his wildest dreams....let alone kiss her; touch her. Initially their hilarious encounter is just great fun. It’s Ben Hood’s mid life crisis dream come true. Then it goes bad. Extremely bad.

Ben Hood is hired to find those responsible for the attempted murder of a mentally retarded youth in the Daintree jungle of Far North Queensland. The boy saw something on a track that he was never supposed to see. The assignment brings Ben into contact with dangerous wild creatures, most of which are human. Beautiful women with various motives vie for his attention. Ben is well aware that attempting to solve the mystery of the incident on the track is likely to be impossible and probably (for him) even fatal.