THE SECOND VICTORY

Before the war Mark Hanlon had known and loved Austria as a Jesuit novice. As an older and now a married man, he is returning to it as Occupation Commander of the town of Bad Quellenberg in the British zone when his driver is shot dead by a mysterious skier.

MCCREARY MOVES IN

Mike McCreary was an oilman out of a job. When offered a breathtaking salary for a drilling operation on a remote island, he thought his Irish luck was with him. Then he met Lisette, and within 24 hours was involved in murder, intrigue and international fraud.

CHILDREN OF THE SUN

First published in the 1950s, this novel deals with the plight of the urchins of Naples, homeless boys who sleep in doorways, and beg and steal and scratch along as best they can, unprotected by the State. Padre Mario Borrelli sets out to help, and embarks on a journey of self-transformation.

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

Blaise Meridith, an English Priest, is sent by the Vatican to Calabria, in Southern Italy, to investigate the life of Giacomo Nerone. A local hero and reputed miracle worker, Nerone is a candidate for canonization. The truth of a man's whole life is to be uncovered in a terrible examination.

THE NAKED COUNTRY

Deep in Australia's Northern Territory, Lance Dillon's stud bull is ritually slaughtered by Aborigines, and he is himself attacked and pursued. As his wife and a policeman search for him, the nightmarish bush terrain draws the pair together.

DAUGHTER OF SILENCE

At high noon on a hot summer's day in a Tuscany village, a beautiful young woman shoots a man dead. With this ultimate act of revenge begins a sequence of events that climax in a sensational murder trial that unearths a sinister conspiracy of silence.

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN

A pope has died, and the corridors of the Vatican hum with intrigue as cardinals from all over the world gather to choose his successor. Suddenly, the election is concluded with a surprise result. The new pope is the youngest cardinal of all - and a Russian!

THE AMBASSADOR

Set against the military deadlock in South Vietnam and the crisis of Western diplomacy in the Far East, this novel traces the fortunes of a US ambassador who, in moral confusion and tortured by self-doubt, is made arbiter of his nation's fate, and of life and death for the ruling house of Vietnam.

THE TOWER OF BABEL

Set in the Middle East on the brink of war, this novel portrays the Arab-Jewish confrontation. The successful terrorist becomes a statesman and a national hero. The unsuccessful one is branded a criminal. But they all know themselves to be heroes.

SUMMER OF THE RED WOLF

A writer, accustomed to the trouble spots of the world and the bustle of cities, is in search of a place to recharge his spirit. But his arrival in the Western Isles of Scotland, his friendship with two men and his love for Kathleen, provide the spark that ignites a drama and changes their lives.

THE SALAMANDER

A political thriller set in Italy. For the moment the country walks a slippery, unfamiliar tightrope called democracy. On either side, well-organized groups of right wing and left-wing extremists lie in wait, ready to pounce.

KUNDU

Kundu in the language of the Aborigines means drum, the drum that calls the tribe to unite and attack. And the world of Kundu is that of the mountains of New Guinea. Here is where a doctor blows on the fire of revolt.

HARLEQUIN

Paul Desmond and his friend George Harlequin are forced by fraud, blackmail and terror to face some brutal facts of life. A story based on known facts about the world of finance, security and terrorism which moves from Zurich, Hamburg and London to Washington, New York and Mexico.

THE NAVIGATOR

Gunnar Thorkild, grandson of the last great Polynesian navigator, has rashly proclaimed, in a scientific paper, the existence of a legendary island to which all navigators go on the eve of their death. With his future at the Hawaii Institute on the line, he embarks on an epic voyage of discovery.

PROTEUS

John Spada publicly runs an enormous multi-national corporation, privately he heads Proteus, a clandestine resistance movement. His aim is to free prisoners of conscience wherever they may be. As the story unfolds, Spada himself becomes an outlaw, and holds the world hostage.

THE CLOWNS OF GOD

Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world--an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman - as his cardinals suspect - a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

GALLOWS ON THE SAND

A mysterious treasure hidden in a galleon sunk on the Great Barrier Reef is the last hope of Renn Lundigan, former university professor, widower, obsessed by the ghost of the past and too many bottles of whiskey. With Renn there is Johnny, a Polynesian, a friend; Nino, lover of adventure; and Pat, young, beautiful, and maybe in love. But when Manny Mannix, fierce Sidney gangster, sees the chance, the adventure becomes a man hunt.

THE WORLD IS MADE OF GLASS

A psychological novel about love, sexual obsession, murder, guilt and the need of forgiveness.

CASSIDY

A book about the son in law of an Australian politician which has to take care of a lot of troubles after the politicians death.

THE BIG STORY

Richard Ashley is a journalist with a story which will overthrow a corrupt Italian politician, Vittorio, Duke of Orgagna. But when he falls in love with Orgagna's wife, there's more to the scoop than just newspaper glory. For when the truth appears, it is complicated, passionate and bloodstained.

MASTERCLASS

In the sun-washed hills of Florence a beautiful dying heiress leaves an unexpected legacy - a cache of priceless works by the Renaissance's greatest master. In the powerful financial establishment of Zurich a brilliant young rogue afflicted with a touch of larceny launches an ambitious - and outrageous - coup that rocks the worlds of art and money. In the glittering galleries of New York a glamorous and ambitious dealer forces her former lover to catapult a widely gifted painter to stardom - and solve the artist's brutal murder.

LAZARUS

Faced with open-heart surgery, Suhomeme Pontiff Leo XIV sees his life flashing before him. In reforming the Church, he created a wasteland and made enemies, and now he vows to destroy the rehomession for which he was responsible. But a terrorist group, the Sword of Islam, has other ideas.

THE RINGMASTER

Gilbert Langton, respected linguist and trusted negotiator, has been selected to mediate the interests of Japan and Germany in an ambitious deal masterminded to lift the Russian Republic out from under the threat of famine and bloodshed. But conflict in the Middle East is on the brink of explosion, and the repercussions of international power-plays ensnare Langton in an impassable web of profit motives, mob involvement, and hidden agendas.

THE LOVERS

International lawyer Brian de Courcy Cavanagh is summoned back to his past by a letter. He relives the Cold War in Europe, the hot wars in Korea and Indochina, and returns to a time when a victorious Britain was rationing food and divesting itself of its Empire.

VANISHING POINT

Carl's peace is shattered when his brother-in-law, Larry, vanishes. Carl is summoned by his father to investigate Larry's disappearance. As he becomes embroiled in the investigation he must confront the sinister reasons behind Larry's flight and the family secrets that have too long been denied.

EMINENCE

Luca Rossini, once a young priest savagely tortured by the Argentinean military in the 70s. To cover up the scandal, Rossini was taken back to Rome and kept in exile. Under the patronage of the reigning pontiff, he has become a cardinal, one of the Church's most efficient diplomats, and a member of the electoral college. When the reigning pope dies, Rossini loses his patron - though not his power or his iron will - and his faith, already shaken by his past, is tested anew. On the eve of the papal election, the woman who saved his life and for whom, even in exile, he has nourished a deep and abiding love, comes again into his life. The wounds of the past are reopened, and Rossini finds himself in a new crisis of political responsibility and faces the turmoil of his own spirit.

THE LAST CONFESSION

West's last novel (he died at his desk, at its completion) is a strong story of the philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno, who was burnt by the Inquisition for his heresy.