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Start with Ice Station..it’s the first one with Scarecrow.. it’s great!
He also has another ‘action character’..Jack West..which he did a series of books on. I read the first novel, but I just couldn’t get into the character. He’s done a few other books outside these two guys. They are all good, but not as good as the Shane Schofield novels. The ones I have read are:The Contest..which was his first book. It is about a contest between the greatest warriors in the universe coming to fight each other to decide who is the greatest (his first book!); The Hovercraft Racer, was a sci-fi story set in the future, about, you guessed it, hovercraft racing; The Tournament, which is a murder mystery revolving are Chess tournamentp involving Elizabeth I and her real life teacher Ascham; and The Great Zoo of China..which is like Jurassic Park.
 
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Australian Wildlife, the Shocking Truth!
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For years people from all over the world have believed that just about everything in Australia will kill you, and we Australians for our part have done little to dispel this misconception and often mischievously and gleefully encouraged it.

Let’s be honest, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, most Australian animals might look sweet and innocent but many are carnivorous by nature and vicious by choice and whether it grows, swims, flies, crawls, slithers, hops or glides etc; it will either kill you, kill you then eat you, “violate” you, kill you then eat you or just settle for laying its eggs in your brain!

“Australian Wildlife, the Shocking Truth!” aims to humourlessly foster and encourage this concept by going into great ghoulish, humorous and fully illustrated detail about the dangerous feeding and/or breeding habits of 60 plants and animals that live on our continent.

From Boolarong press.
 

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Australian Wildlife, the Shocking Truth!
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For years people from all over the world have believed that just about everything in Australia will kill you, and we Australians for our part have done little to dispel this misconception and often mischievously and gleefully encouraged it.

Let’s be honest, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, most Australian animals might look sweet and innocent but many are carnivorous by nature and vicious by choice and whether it grows, swims, flies, crawls, slithers, hops or glides etc; it will either kill you, kill you then eat you, “violate” you, kill you then eat you or just settle for laying its eggs in your brain!

“Australian Wildlife, the Shocking Truth!” aims to humourlessly foster and encourage this concept by going into great ghoulish, humorous and fully illustrated detail about the dangerous feeding and/or breeding habits of 60 plants and animals that live on our continent.

From Boolarong press.
Sounds like a hoot, might have to check that one out.
 

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Sounds like a hoot, might have to check that one out.
Here are a few samples :laughing:

The Cassowary:
Whereas the Emu can be found in the verdant plains of our continent, the Cassowary is mostly encountered haunting our Northern rainforests. Although it shares the same vicious nature of its larger cousin, the Cassowary comes far better equipped. Its armoury not only includes size, speed and sharp teeth, but a Rapier-like middle toe that can disembowel with a single swipe as well as a battering ram crest on its head that can dent even the toughest armour plate let alone human skull.

In her informative 1953 book, “Vindictive Birds of Australasia” the renowned ornithologist, Evelyn Sylvia Isaac Greenfield wrote,
The inner of its three toes is fitted with a long, straight, murderous talon which can sever an arm or eviscerate an abdomen with the greatest of ease as well as a tough, bony, skin-covered, “helmet” on their heads that is often used as a lethal bludgeon. There are many records of natives being killed by this wantonly homicidal bird!

During World War II, American and Australian troops training in the top end were warned to steer well clear of them at all costs as they were considered even more ferocious than the Japanese at close quarters.

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The Kookaburra:
The jolly, garrulous, laughing Kookaburra has long been a favourite icon and mainstay of the Australian tourist industry. However, they also have an unfortunate fondness for eyeballs and a sarcastic cackle that strikes fear into all who hear it!
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The Daddy Long-legs and Huntsman Spider
The South American Wandering Spider (also known as the Banana Spider) has a frightening reputation for aggression and a venom that causes prolonged “priapism” (prolonged erection) in human males before a painful and lingering death. Fortunately, the venom from its Australian relative - The Daddy Long-legs shares only one of these traits in that it’s capable of keeping the most disinterested and slovenly of ‘soldiers’ standing rigidly to attention for hours without the fatal side effects.
Waggishly christened “Walking Viagra” or the “Daddy Long-Shlong” by the Australian population, The Daddy Long-legs has been a welcome if not mischievous part of Australian life since the first man and woman set foot on the continent eons ago.
However, despite widespread affection by the Australian population, extremist religious groups have long waged a relentless holy war against this naughty little arachnid, claiming it’s the root cause of all our nation’s woes from the moral decay of the population to the onset of drought and flood. Due to this mindset, they have relentlessly lobbied successive governments over the years for a national eradication program. Thankfully, this has been to no avail.
Australia is also home to the fearsome Huntsman spider!
Many times more dangerous than the Funnel-web and Redback that grabs all the headlines. This large, cunning and aggressive spider likes to inhabit unkempt gardens and derelict buildings and is a real threat to the careless and unwary.
The Huntsman spider is most active at night, leaving their lairs and creeping through the dark dimly lit parks, backstreets and gardens of suburbia in search of prey, always keeping to the shadows till they are ready to strike. Usually an ambush hunter, the Huntsman Spider will still readily creep into suburban dwellings in search of easy pickings.
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And many many more!
 

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These are a set of three, covering different time periods. Not a bad read for anyone interested in this sort of topic. They were released one a year, over a three year period, so I was luck enough to get one each Christmas, as a gift.
I applied for ASIO years ago … can’t tell you if I got in or not though haha
 

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if there are any George R.R. Martin fans of ASOIAF, then I would recommend some of Raymond E. Feist's works

"Magician"



the Serpent War Saga



"The King's Buccaneer"



"Daughter of the Empire"

Funny story, I asked my wife to buy me the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant for my birthday, but she could't find it so she brought me the Rift War Saga instead. Best mistake she's ever made. lol

I did love reading Feist, including the Empire series, but he went gaga when he introduced demons. He lost me.
 

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Funny story, I asked my wife to buy me the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant for my birthday, but she could't find it so she brought me the Rift War Saga instead. Best mistake she's ever made. lol

I did love reading Feist, including the Empire series, but he went gaga when he introduced demons. He lost me.
to be fair, I stopped reading Feist after the 'Conclave of Shadows' cycle... a bit too much 'Midkemia' by that stage for me
 

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A couple of good reads if anyone is interested in bikie life.
 
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