




From Wiki: Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional, or planned, residential community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital.
A total of 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed “revolutionary suicide” by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. This includes over 200 murdered children. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The victims included United States Congressman Leo Ryan. Four other Temple members died in Georgetown at Jones’s command.
To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass murder, it was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001.
Well, that’s the official story.
But there have always been rumors of CIA involvement with the cult prior to the massacre. Mind control experiments such as MK-Ultra have also regularly come up in conspiracy theories.
So what really happened in 1978 at Jonestown?
Mass suicide, mass murder, a CIA experiment, or what?
Find out in our book The Orphan Factory: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
After reading The Ninth Orphan, I was eagerly awaiting this instalment. It didn’t disappoint. This is not normally the sort of book I’d read, but I’ve enjoyed both books so much that I couldn’t put them down until they were finished.
This book gives us an even better insight into Nine’s life and his personality. As soon as I’d finished it I wanted to go back and read the previous book, so I could better understand his decisions/motives as an adult. The book has a good mix of both fast-paced action, and detailed background description – allowing the reader to really build a picture of the characters and settings.
I’m liking the fact this is part of a trilogy – I want more!!!!!
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If you’re a fan of international conspiracy thrillers in the vein of James Bond and James Bourne – and you like your action fast and furious – this latest offering from father and son writing team, James and Lance Morcan, is guaranteed not to disappoint.
The first of a trilogy, The Ninth Orphan follows the fate of Sebastian George Hannar, the ninth orphan of Chicago’s Pedemont Orphanage. We meet ‘Nine’ at the age of 31, a highly skilled assassin, trained since birth to be the perfect secret agent.
Increasingly frustrated with the life that he has been bred for – and the dark secrets it entails – our protagonist decides to make his next mission his last, and secure his freedom with the highly sensitive information he is privy to. But of course, our hero making a quick escape to the suburbs and settling into a life of quiet domesticity would not a satisfying thriller make. No rogue agent ever escaped from a covert, evil organization with designs to ‘take over the world’ so easily, and ours is no exception.
Just as it seems that Nine might achieve his goal of independence, a chance encounter with a beguiling photographer, Isabelle Alleget, causes his plans to unravel. And so begins a frenetically paced cat and mouse chase that takes us all over the world, from Paris to the Philippines.
Deftly weaving some fantastical twists and turns, flashbacks to our hero’s extraordinary childhood, and a series of impressive action sequences into a tense plot, the Morcans deliver a satisfying narrative that never lets up. And as he is hotly pursued by his mentor, Tommy Kentbridge, and various secret organizations, Nine’s intriguing, chameleon-like ability to disguise himself ensures that our attention never wavers.
What makes The Ninth Orphan stand out from other thrillers is its intelligent handling of its themes. Like Kazuo Ishiguro’s haunting novel, Never Let Me Go, The Ninth Orphan taps into our fascination with the possibilities of genetic selection, and the sinister consequences it may bring.
Throw in a pinch of romance and the suggestion of political shadow organizations that may or may not operate in the real world, and you have an exhilarating read that will keep the little grey cells ticking over long after you’ve reached the final page.
-The Flaneur http://flaneur.me.uk/09/the-ninth-orphan-by-james-and-lance-morcan-2/
Links for The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1):
Trade paperback – https://www.createspace.com/3642008
Kindle ebook- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0056I4FKC http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0056I4FKC
Here’s some favorite quotes from our international thriller The Ninth Orphan, Book #1 in The Orphan Trilogy:
Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials – elected or otherwise – were puppets who only had the illusion of power…
The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields…
Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired…
Japan had gained enormous wealth when it invaded China and a dozen or so other Asian countries during the Second World War. The Japanese looted bullion by the truckload. In addition to the incalculable amounts of gold, gigantic quantities of diamonds, silver and religious artifacts had also been stolen. These colossal treasure troves were shipped to the Philippines in preparation for transportation to Japan. However, as the war in the Pacific intensified, the ever-increasing presence of Allied ships made the transport of such treasure problematic for Japan. As a result, much of it was hidden in the Philippines…
Links for The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1):
Trade paperback – https://www.createspace.com/3642008
Kindle ebook- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0056I4FKC http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0056I4FKC

Some say the Queen is one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. Our thriller novel The Orphan Factory covers secret Royal assets and undeclared income… http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW
Also, here’s an excerpt from The Orphan Factory:
In fact, Lady Penelope was only distantly related to the Windsors, or British Royals, and that relationship was by marriage rather than blood. However, she was an influential figure as she represented many of Queen Elizabeth’s financial interests.
Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II’s name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor’s assets and income were mostly non-declared. Naylor himself claimed to have witnessed one offshore bank account of the Queen’s whose value was in the hundreds of billions.
Contrary to the myth that the British Royals were no longer all-powerful, it was common knowledge within Omega and other organizations in the know that they remained one of the most dominant forces on the planet. The Royals were totally comfortable with the mass populace believing they’d passed their heyday. That belief allowed them to control things behind the scenes with effortless ease. And control they did, in every way imaginable.
The reality was the Windsors had their fingers in many pies and had a huge say in global affairs. At home, they dictated to the British Parliament, and no elected Prime Minister could take up office without first pledging total allegiance to the Queen and future King. To Kentbridge’s way of thinking, that proved Britain was no more a democracy than was the United States.
The special agent had often told his orphans that in her capacity as the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth nations, the Queen had legitimate business interests in the pharmaceutical, banking and mineral industries in most or all of those countries. No small cheese considering those nations included mineral-rich Canada and Australia as well as India and numerous African states.
Kentbridge had also told the orphans it was a commonly held belief within Omega that the Queen bankrolled and reaped the rewards from other far more secretive ventures worldwide. As for the exact nature of those other ventures, nobody in the agency knew.
Lady Penelope’s active involvement in Omega proved beyond doubt to Kentbridge and his superiors that the British Royals considered the agency a likely way to expand its semisecret, global empire. The extremely intelligent and influential Omega founding members gave the Royals faith that the below-the-radar Omega Agency would eventually become the potent organization it strived to be.
Read more in The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW
“The only salvation for civilization lies in the creation of a world government”
–Albert Einstein.
Do you agree with Einstein? Or do you believe individual nations are still important?
These issues are explored in my new release thriller novel, The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/ as well as its predecessor The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

Below is the opening quote to our coming-of-age spy thriller novel The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
“A boy comes to me with a spark of interest.
I feed the spark and it becomes a flame.
I feed the flame and it becomes a fire.
I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.”
-Cus D’Amato (Trainer of World Heavyweight Champions Mike Tyson & Floyd Patterson)
The spirit of Cus D’Amato (who many boxing experts say is the greatest trainer who ever lived) is reflected in The Orphan Factory in that Cus knew how to get the very best out of his young proteges. Likewise, in the novel, the Omega fathers know how to get the best out of their orphans so that they eventually become the most ruthless assassins.
The relationship between the young Mike Tyson and the elderly Cus D’Amato was one of the inspirations for the novel’s father-son like relationship between lead character Nine (aka Sebastian) and Tommy Kentbridge, his mentor inside the orphange.


Now, we can see a new world
coming into view.
A world in which there is
the very real prospect of a
new world order.”
-President George H. W. Bush
(Speech to Congress – March 6, 1991)
That’s the question many are asking as WikiLeaks’ champion struts his stuff whilst holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in ‘Londontown’.
Without debating the rights and wrongs of Assange’s actions in publishing 90,000 or so sensitive US documents, we do share many of his concerns about ‘Big Brother’ and its role in today’s world – the morality of US foreign affairs, the banking system, Bilderberg, MK-Ultra and CIA-sanctioned mind control experiments to name but a few.
These and much more feature in our international thriller novels The Ninth Orphan and The Orphan Factory, Books #1 and #2 in The Orphan Trilogy.
Both novels are available as Kindle ebooks and trade paperbacks, and both feature in Amazon’s Top Rated Spy Books list.
Links for: The Ninth Orphan:
Trade paperback – https://www.createspace.com/3642008
Kindle ebook- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0056I4FKC http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0056I4FKC
Links for The Orphan Factory:
Kindle ebook – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Orphan-Factory-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/ http://www.amazon.de/The-Orphan-Factory-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/ http://www.amazon.fr/The-Orphan-Factory-ebook/dp/B008M9WWKW/