Birth of the Single-Handed Viking

C Bond Davey

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Jamesey John Dejames, after being seriously injured by the IRA in Belfast, thinks his dream of starting 'On la Guardia' after he leaves the army had ended but his beautiful girlfriend, Janet Elaine Stark, has other ideas and soon it is up and running. It is a resounding success and attracts attention and is soon doing off the book jobs for the British and other democratic governments. New York, 2011. The stunning-looking Luca Natasha Valendenski, a Lithuanian immigrant and interior designer, is being stalked by a violent rapist and his pack of thugs when things come to a violent climax. Rabbie Hamish Dejames, son of Jamesey and head of OLG New York, arrives in the nick of time and sparks fly and shots are fired but good overcomes evil and they both soon embark on an incredible, if unorthodox, romantic journey together. Based in London, New York, Belfast and other thrilling locations and filled with colourful, dangerous and interesting characters and places, The Birth of the Single-Handed Viking will hold you gripped from start to finish and wanting more.

Sujets

• Historical fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528944564
• Langue: English

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The Birth of the Single-Handed Viking
Davey C Bond
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-01-31
The Birth of the Single-Handed Viking About the Author Dedication Copyright Information Disclaimer Acknowledgements Summary Prologue I Bel-Aire, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California… Late March, 2011 II First Thursday in March, 2013, Midnight. Apartment 3B, ‘The Poplar Trees’ Apartments, North Village, New York City Chapter 1: ‘A Real Deal in the Peel’ (‘When I First Saw the Light in Your Eyes’… The Fureys and Davy Arthur) London, First Monday in February, 1976 – 11.00am Chapter 2: Breakfast at Mama Jocelyn’s (‘Breakfast in America’ – Supertramp) I New York, First Friday in March, 2013 II Chapter 3: You Will Never Get in the Water Again (Movie Score from ‘Jaws’ – The Movie, 1976) I Watford High Street, February, 1976 II Chapter 4: Luca and the Director (‘What Becomes of the Broken Hearted’… Jimmy Ruffin) I First Sunday in March, 2013 – 10.30pm Chapter 5: Talking Horses, Stroppy Fat Men and Getting Closer (‘Goodness Gracious… Great Balls of Fire’… Jerry Lee Lewis) I II Next Day Chapter 6: New York, New York… One Hell of a Town (‘New York Empire State of Mind’…Leone Lewis) First Sunday in March, 2013; Late evening – The Russian Club Chapter 7: The Fine Art of Eating a Ruby Murray (‘Ring of Fire’…Johnny Cash) Chapter 8: Wined, Dined and Ketamined (‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’…The Beatles) I Early Fall 2012 to 23rd of December, 2012 II Chapter 9: The Demise of ‘Slimy’ Barry (‘A Boy Named Sue’…Johnny Cash) “You Should Never Start Something You Can’t Finish, You Tosser…” Jamesey John DeJames II Chapter 10: Watch Out There’s a Stalker About “Oh Lawdy, Lawdy… She Can Walk Again… It’s a Miracle. Praise the Lord,” Bobby Havilland I December 23rd, 2012 II February 26 th 2013 Chapter 11: The Green, Green Grass of Home (‘Tiger Feet’…Mud…1976) I II Chapter 12: Violent Intruders (‘I Need a Hero’…Bonny Tyler…1977) I New York, First Sunday in March, 2013 – 10.54pm 11.28pm 11.31pm 11.37pm II III IV Chapter 13: Love at First Stroke… Beanz Meanz Heinz (‘I’m Caught in a Trap… And I Can’t Walk Out…’ Elvis Presley from His Song ‘Suspicious Minds’) I II (’I Thought Love Was Only True in Fairy Tales… The Monkees – 1969) Chapter 14: Emergency Room (‘When You’re Tired and Lonely’… James Taylor) I II III IV The Rise of Red Viking Alpha June, 2004, Northern Sahara Desert, Libya Chapter 15: You Might as Well Be ‘Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb’ (‘It’s All Too Beautiful’… The Small Faces… 1968) Late February, 1976, Northern England Chapter 16: “To the Theatre We Will Go” (‘Are You Lonesome Tonight…? Will You Miss Me Tonight?’ Elvis Presley…1962) I II Chapter 17: Around the World Without a Shortcut (Goodbye Dolly, I Must Leave You, with My Rifle and My Pack on My Back, Goodbye Dolly, I Must Leave You and I don’t Know When I’ll Be Back: World War 1 Infantry Marching Song… ‘Goodbye, Dolly Gray’) Chapter 18: Flashbacks (‘Guardian Angel’…Nino de Angelo) Chapter 19: A Break at the Oasis I Hexham, Early May, 1976 II III Chapter 20: R and R at Rabbie’s Robin Hood… Prince of Thieves (‘Everything I Do… I Do It for You’… Brian Adams 1997) I II III Chapter 21: Cry Havoc and Let Loose the Dogs of War Part I: “The Art of Warfare Is Deception”, Sun Tzu 5 th C (Map and Notes) 18 th June, 1976 Part II: Cry Havoc, and Let Loose the Dogs of War (‘We Have Got to Get Out of This Place’… The Animals, 1965.) 18 th June, 1976 – 4.05pm – 45, Glenmacadoon Avenue 4.08pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.10pm – Battalion HQ – Springfield Road Barracks 4.19pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.21pm – Springfield Road 4.26pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.27pm – 18 Glenmacadoon Square 4.27pm – 17 Glenmacadoon Square 4.28pm 4.29pm 4.29pm – The Robert Peel – Watford 4.30pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.30pm 4.30pm – Battalion HQ – Springfield Road Barracks 4.30pm – 17 Glenmacadoon Square 4.31pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.32pm – Springfield Road Barracks 4.30pm – The Rear of 18 Glenmacadoon Square 4.31pm – Glenmacadoon Square 4.31pm – 45 Glenmacadoon Avenue 4.32pm 4.33pm 4.50pm – 17 Glenmacadoon Square Chapter 22: Mulligatawny Soup “Waiter… There Is a Fly in My Soup…” “Hush Sir, Or Everybody Will Want One…” Peter Sellers Chapter 23: The Birth of the Single-Handed Viking (‘Ride of the Valkeries’… Wagner) I Cassiobury Park; Watford, Late June, 1976 II III Chapter 24: SassyVanassy’s Birthday Bash “Err…that was a vertical to horizontal neck to crutch, Special Forces incapacitating body slam dunk…so it was.” Bobby Havilland – to the press Part 1 ‘Ballroom Blitz’…The Sweet… 1973 Part II: ‘America’… Simon and Garfunkel Chapter 25: Curry Night and Confidence Building, Collette Style (A Lesson in Sexual Etiquette) (‘Something’s Cooking in the Kitchen… Something’s Steaming in the Air’… Dana… 1981) Chapter 26: Rest and Rivals I II III Chapter 27: The Birth and Rise of On La Guardia Ten Green Hand Grenades, Sitting on a Wall… Part 1 Musgrave Park Military Hospital, Belfast End of August, 1976. Brecon, South Wales Late September, 1976. Brecon Battle Camp II Watford, March 1977 Chapter 28: Borscht (An OLG Black Op.) (‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’… Gerry and the Pacemakers… 1962) I New York, First Tuesday in April, 2013 One Year Prior II Mid April, 2012 Chapter 29: Felix… A Hero and His Wheelbarrow (Zoom…and the Whole Wide World Went Boom… ‘Zoom’ by Fat Larry… 1981) The Robert Peel Pub, Watford 5 th November 1980 Guy Fawkes Night, Belfast. November the 5 th 1979. Exactly one year prior. Chapter 30: “He Spermed Me in the Heart” (‘Are We Human’… The Killers… 2013) I 29 th April, 2013 II III IV Chapter 31: On La Guardia Goes Global (‘Rocking All over the World’… Status Quo) I II OLG HQ, Watford 9 th April 1983 9th April 1983; 10.15pm III Easter 1983 IV V VI November, 1988. OLG HQ Watford. VII June 2013, Los Angeles, California Chapter 32: Chilli Dogs, Zoos and Russians (‘Apeman’… The Kinks… 1968) I II (‘When I Said I Needed You’… Elvis Presley) III The Émigré Hobo’s Poem to Luca Chapter 33: Yeehaa… Hollywood, Here We Come. I March, 2013, Los Angeles, California II III Hollywood, California, May, 1999 IV Bel Air, California, July 2000 V Earlier That Day Chapter 34: The Power of a Darn Good Spurning (‘Goodness Gracious… Great Balls Of Fire’… Jerry Lee Lewis) I II III IV Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Mid June, 2013 V Chapter 35: Marriage… A Triumph of Hope over Adversity Early October, 1984, Garston, North London Acapulco, Mexico, October 2013. October, 1983, OLG HQ, Watford Acapulco, 2013 Watford, October 1984 The Cross-Examination Chapter 36: ‘When Will I See You Again’ January, 2011 – Belaire, Hollywood, California Chapter 37: Let’s Get Together Again Week Before Christmas, 2013 Epilogue ‘The Light Can Only Shine If Surrounded by the Darkness’ 28 th April, 2018, 1.15pm And so the story goes on;
About the Author
He is a semi-disabled ex-soldier and retired police officer. He left the force in mid-’90s after a number of injuries and ill health. Highly commended on numerous occasions, he considers himself lucky to be alive. He’s spent his last 18 months in Belfast, which included an undercover tour to thwart the IRA bombing campaign going on at the time.
His interests, apart from writing, include poetry, good music, art, history, fine dining and socialising with friends and family.
Widowed, he has four grown children and nearly a football team of grandchildren. He lives in Northern Ireland with his new partner and extended family.
He has two sequels completed in the DeJames trilogy and is working on another.
Dedication
This novel is dedicated to all the members of the armed forces of all the democratic countries who are fighting and putting their lives on the line to protect their citizens and defeat the forces of the evil terrorist insurgency prevailing in the world at the moment.
Lest we forget.
Copyright Information
Copyright © Davey C Bond (2019)
The right of Davey C Bond to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528900522 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781528900539 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781528944564 (E-Book)
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Disclaimer
This is a work of fiction and most of the characters, places and operations are a figment of the author’s overactive imagination, and any similarity to real people and events is purely coincidental, although some of the events and operations are loosely based on real events the author witnessed or was involved in. The author has changed dates, times, venues and, sometimes, the outcome.
Acknowledgements
This book would probably be lying on a shelf, gathering dust now but for the help and encouragement of Liz Goodman, the late Jackie Johnston and the Fireside Crew in ‘Fajoes’.
Martin and Janice of Virtual Secretarial Services, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Big Jeff Morrow, landlord extraordinaire. Last but not least, my daughters and extended family who are waiting with bated breath and not a little degree of trepidation for the final product.
Thanks, guys.
Summary
A novel of action, romance and triumph over adversity
(The first in the DeJames family trilogy)
“ You might be stupid enough to mess with the DeJames men but you certainly don’t mess with their women. ”
Prologue

I

Bel-Aire, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California… Late March, 2011
Jamesey John DeJames came back from the balcony of his Beverley Hills penthouse apar