Archive for July, 2025

Popular short story compendium ‘5 SHORT STORY GEMS’ available as audiobook!

Posted: July 22, 2025 in 5 Short Story Gems, Audiobooks
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‘5 SHORT STORY GEMS: Once Were Brothers / Mr. 100% / A Gladiator’s Love / The Last Tasmanian Tiger / Brooklyn Bankster’ by Lance Morcan is available now as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 5hrs. 53mins). To listen to a sample, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Story-Gems-Gladiators-Tasmanian/dp/B0FDKW87RC/

‘5 SHORT STORY GEMS’ caters for all tastes, including historical fiction, adventure yarns, romance, bank heist and legal thriller. Technically, this box set includes four short stories and one novella. The odd one out being the aforementioned legal thriller.

Each short story has also been published as a standalone Kindle and audiobook. To view the Kindle links for each book go to an earlier post at: https://morcanbooksandfilms.com/2020/04/01/book-launch-5-short-story-gems/

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For those who prefer the printed word, ‘5 SHORT STORY GEMS’ is available as a paperback via Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Mystery-thriller ‘BROOKLYN BANKSTER’ now available as audiobook!

Posted: July 21, 2025 in Audiobooks, Brooklyn Bankster
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The bank heist mystery-thriller ‘BROOKLYN BANKSTER’ short story by Lance Morcan is available now as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 50mins). To listen to a sample, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Brooklyn-Bankster/dp/B0DVLZP9DB/

After ageing hippy Bill Hogan is taken hostage during a bank heist in Brooklyn, his captors demand a million-dollar ransom for his safe return. The problem is no-one knows who the hell Bill Hogan is. Does he even exist? All is not what it seems in this fast-paced, short story.

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Here’s what book critics have to say about BROOKLYN BANKSTER:

★★★★★ “Simply Superb. This was such an easy and enjoyable story to read, and so well written.,, I didn’t move from my seat until I finished it.” -Amazon Australia

★★★★★ “This is a superb short story, completely involving, offered in fine contemporary conversational manner that holds the attention for the first word to the last – ransom notes, delivery of ‘particles of Bill,’ and the final splendid surprise.” -Amazon Reviews

★★★★★ “A real page turner. Excellent short story. couldn’t put it down.” -Kindle Reviews

★★★★★ “A fast-paced original compelling story. Although short, it is not short on suspense, action and thrills. Lance Morcan grabs your attention and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end.” -Sheri A. Wilkinson Reviews

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‘THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V’ now available as audiobook!

Posted: July 19, 2025 in Audiobooks, Underground Knowledge
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‘THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V (Genius Intelligence / Antigravity Propulsion / Medical Industrial Complex / The Catcher in the Rye Enigma / International Banksters)’ – co-authored by James & Lance Morcan – is now available as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time: 13hrs. 35mins.)

To listen to the book’s introduction, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-Intelligence-Antigravity-Propulsion-International/dp/B0F44Z1HBY/

Books 1 to 5 in the series (with audiobook links supplied) follow:

-GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ? –  This book (with foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha) shatters the myth that geniuses are born not developed.  https://www.amazon.com/GENIUS-INTELLIGENCE-Techniques-Technologies-Increase/dp/B0FH35T7JH/

-ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies? – A far-reaching exploration into the UFO phenomenon that covers all possible scenarios and discounts nothing. https://www.amazon.com/ANTIGRAVITY-PROPULSION-Human-Alien-Technologies/dp/B0FH1LHRYJ/

-MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures? – An explosive book that explores the contention Big Pharma and other participants in the healthcare sector put profits ahead of patients’ wellbeing.  https://www.amazon.com/MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX-Industry-Suppressed/dp/B0FF8GV1RQ/  

-THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA: J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? – This book unearths the mysteries surrounding arguably the most controversial book of all time – J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Triggering-Coincidental/dp/B0F3444CJ8/

-INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism? – This book identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%.  https://www.amazon.com/INTERNATIONAL-BANKSTER-Banking-Restructuring-Capitalism/dp/B0F289253B/

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‘BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD’ now available as an audiobook!

Posted: July 18, 2025 in Audiobooks, Bankrupting the Third World
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‘BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt’ co-authored by James & Lance Morcan, is available as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 2hrs. 19mins). To listen to the Foreword, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/BANKRUPTING-THIRD-WORLD-Global-Nations/dp/B0FH368C8D/

Dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world, this book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world’s poorest people. It also questions whether the aid packages provided are genuine or whether they are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries.

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‘BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD’ has an Amazon global rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars. Here’s what reviewers say about it:

★★★★★  “This book does a great job of giving some great examples of how the so-called Third World is hustled by the ruling global financial elite. This isn’t in the realms of conspiracy theories – all you have to do is follow the money trails.” -Amazon Reviews

★★★★★  “I read this book in one sitting and it is riveting and an eye opener.” -A.M. Jacobs

★★★★★  “This book informs readers why we should question foreign aid! The authors show precisely what is wrong with the aid industry, which mask scams that leave fragile nations paying more than they receive in foreign aid.” -Andrew Fontenelle

★★★★★  “A thought-provoking, interesting, compelling read! I highly recommend to all.” -Sheri A. Wilkinson

★★★★★  “With numerous research and invaluable references, the authors present what is wrong with the aid industry and equip readers with an underground knowledge to question why these barbaric aid policies of Western Governments, private companies and central banks are in place.” -C.R. Putsche

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For those who prefer the printed word, ‘BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD’ is available as a paperback via Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Adventure story about the last Tasmanian tiger now an audiobook!

Posted: July 17, 2025 in Audiobooks, The Last Tasmanian Tiger
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The short story ‘THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER’ by Lance Morcan is available now as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 33 mins). To listen to a sample, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Last-Tasmanian-Tiger/dp/B0FDL1F54N/

This work of pure fiction, set in Tasmania, Australia, was inspired by the true-life figure of Dingo Truganini, the Aboriginal tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus – an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger courtesy of its stripes and the fact that it was a carnivorous marsupial. That was in 1933. They named him Benjamin, and he resided at the Hobart Zoo until his death in 1936.

Benjamin the Tasmanian tiger can be viewed in this remarkable video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o79vefZC-aQ

Most Australians, incidentally, believe the Tasmanian tiger is extinct. Most but not all. Sightings have been, and still are, frequently reported, but none have been definitively confirmed as genuine.

In real life, the aforementioned Dingo was descended from a woman simply known as Truganini who is considered the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian and whose name he inherited. That’s where the history ends and the fiction begins.

In ‘THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER’ my protagonist is one Charlie Truganini, also (fictitiously) descended from his namesake and the great-grandson of Dingo. Charlie has devoted his life to searching for the Tassie tiger, as he refers to it, or the thylacine, as scientific types insist on calling it, to determine one way or the other whether it still exists. He has always suspected it does exist despite having never sighted it nor even stumbled across its spoor in all his travels.

When Charlie sees a Tasmanian tiger with his own eyes, he realises he doesn’t want his tiger meeting the same fate as the last one. And so he makes a decision. A decision that will have life-and-death consequences.

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For those who prefer the printed word, ‘THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER’ is one of five tales in my book ‘5 SHORT STORY GEMS’ which is available as a paperback via Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Banking exposé ‘INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$’ available now as an audiobook

Posted: July 16, 2025 in Audiobooks, INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$
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‘INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism’ co-authored by James & Lance Morcan, is available as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 3hrs. 43mins). To listen to the Foreword, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/INTERNATIONAL-BANKSTER-Banking-Restructuring-Capitalism/dp/B0F289253B/

‘INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$’ identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%.

Un this, Book 5 in ‘The Underground Knowledge Series’, the financial overlords illuminated include the powerbrokers at Wall Street banks, European central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Vatican Bank, as well as elite banking dynasties such as the Rothschild and Rockefeller families.

Though the subjects covered may be monetary issues, that’s on the surface only. In reality, they are humanitarian issues. As the authors state in the book’s opening pages, “Starving the masses of financial opportunities, sinking them in debt and cheating them out of various services their taxes should pay for, are among the greatest sins those in power can commit.”

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For those who prefer the printed word, the paperback version of ‘INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$’ is available from Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Spicy adventure-romance A GLADIATOR’S LOVE now an audiobook!

Posted: July 15, 2025 in A Gladiator's Love, Audiobooks
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The historical adventure-romance ‘A GLADIATOR’S LOVE’ by Lance Morcan is available now as an audiobook courtesy of Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening length for this action-packed tale is 1 hour). To listen to Part One, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-A-Gladiators-Love/dp/B0FDKXYTM8/

The year is 83AD and it’s nine years since Roman soldiers killed a young Leonidas’s family in their farmhouse outside Athens and consigned him to the life of a gladiator at Ludus Magnus, one of the biggest and best ludi gladiatori, or gladiator schools, in Rome. The dashing Greek gladiator promises his true love Fatima he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own freedom in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First, he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill.

“5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully written, but tragic, love story…Don’t miss this. It is Lance Morcan at his best.” -George Shaddock, Publisher, US.

“A fine, spicy, romance adventure…(The author) manages to breathe fresh air into ancient Roman times.” –Grady Harp, Arts Critic, US.

“A fantastic story rich with vivid details bringing me deep into the past, if only as a spectator…A memorable read. I highly recommend to all.” -Sheri A. Wilkinson, Amazon Reviews.

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For those who prefer the printed word, the paperback version of ‘A GLADIATOR’S LOVE’ is available from Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and via public libraries.

‘A GLADIATOR’S LOVE’ also features alongside four other tales in Morcan’s box set ‘5 Short Story Gems’ which is also available via the above-mentioned outlets and via Harvard Book Store, USA.

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‘UNDERGROUND BASES’ now also available as an audiobook!

Posted: July 14, 2025 in Audiobooks, Underground Bases
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‘UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet’ co-authored by James & Lance Morcan, is available as an audiobook via Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 2hrs. 34mins). To listen to the Foreword, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://amazon.com/dp/B0FH4FDP8X/

In this, Book 7 in our ‘Underground Knowledge Series’, we make a compelling case for there being an enormous hidden world under the Earth’s surface; and we speculate whether the covert underground infrastructure may be far bigger than anyone has previously supposed and is likely used for the development of suppressed technologies. Our sources include declassified files, university reports, WikiLeaks’ documents and interviews with ex-military personnel turned whistleblowers who claim to have worked in cities below ground.

UNDERGROUND BASES delivers a vast array of facts and theories that ultimately allows readers to form their own conclusions.

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For those who prefer the printed word, the paperback version of ‘UNDERGROUND BASES’ is available from Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Historical fiction box set THE WORLD DUOLOGY now available as audiobook!

Posted: July 13, 2025 in Audiobooks, The World Duology
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‘THE WORLD DUOLOGY (World Odyssey / Fiji: A Novel)’ – co-authored by Lance & James Morcan – is now available as an audiobook courtesy of Amazon’s Audible initiative.  (Listening time 19hrs. 8mins). To listen to the Introduction, click on “Virtual voice sample” at: https://www.amazon.com/World-Duology-Odyssey-Fiji-Novel/dp/B0FDKRM3NN/

★★★★★ “I was immediately drawn into the story, and the fast-paced action kept me turning the pages until the end. The historical and cultural details made it a highly interesting book offering an insight into the anthropological issues at a time when conflicts between different ethnic groups were solved by brutal violence. Between romance, action and historical accuracy, this story has all the elements of great entertainment. I would highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy historical fiction or epic adventures.” -Karine Brégeon (author of ‘Francette and the Mystery of the Deaf Soldier’)

★★★★★ “Great adventure!” -Lynelle Clark (author of ‘A Pirate’s Wife’)

★★★★★ “Historic fiction at its best.” -J.B. DiNizo (author of ‘Comings and Goings’)

★★★★★ “Read this and you will NOT be sorry!” -A Bit Of Everything Reviews

★★★★★ “Exciting adventure, exotic ports of call, and terrific characters.” -Lee Jordan (author of ‘A Whisper from Eden’)

★★★★★ “A spectacular journey by sea and through land you don’t want to miss!” -Remy Benoit (historian and author of ‘Peace, Now’)

★★★★★ “A truly gripping epic James Michener style!” -Historical Novel Review

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For those who prefer the printed word, the paperback version of Books 1 and 2 in ‘THE WORLD DUOLOGY’ are both available from Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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Adventure-romance novel ‘WORLD ODYSSEY’ now an audiobook!

Posted: July 12, 2025 in Audiobooks, World Odyssey
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‘WORLD ODYSSEY (The World Duology Book 1)’ – co-authored by Lance & James Morcan – is now available as audiobook courtesy of Amazon’s Audible initiative. (Listening time 8hrs. 19mins). To listen to the Introduction, click on “Virtual voice sample” at:  https://www.amazon.com/ITEM_NAME/dp/B0FH4DPJP6/

World Odyssey now an audiobook.

WORLD ODYSSEY precedes FIJI: A NOVEL in ‘The World Duology’ box set. Set (earlier) in the Nineteenth Century, this tale follows the fortunes of three young travelers as each embarks on an epic journey. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with Native American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world – from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, and finally Fiji.

Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson’s journey begins when he runs away to sea to escape a violent father.

Susannah Drake’s journey begins after she agrees to accompany her clergyman father to Fiji to help him run a mission station there.

Irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday’s journey begins when he steals hemp from an unscrupulous employer who owes him outstanding wages.

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For those who prefer the printed word, the paperback version of ‘WORLD ODYSSEY’ is available from Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Amazon and via public libraries.

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