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Welcome to Morcan Books & Films, the blog devoted to providing a unique perspective and intelligent commentary on books and films. It includes commentary on our own books and films – i.e. novels and screenplays co-written by the Morcans, and feature films produced by, or in development with, Morcan Motion Pictures.
Lance & James
Life will never be the same for young Benjamin Thomas after Maoris abduct his identical twin brother in this moving historical fiction short story adventure set in Nineteenth Century New Zealand.
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This new release book is exclusive to Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082Z5FBVZ/
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Once Were Brothers will be exclusive to Amazon.
The Thomas family’s lives will never be the same again when seven-year-old Daniel Thomas is abducted from the family farm in New Zealand’s Far North by Maoris opposed to the presence of white settlers.
Daniel’s father devotes his remaining years to searching for his missing blue-eyed, blond-haired son. Until his death a decade later, he’s assisted in his search by Daniel’s identical twin brother Benjamin. Like his late father, Benjamin believes Daniel is still alive.
Twenty years later and now a family man himself with children of his own, Benjamin receives a tip-off that could confirm one way or another whether his brother is alive or dead.
ONCE WERE BROTHERS will be released before Christmas. Watch this space!
For other books by Lance Morcan go to: https://www.amazon.com/Lance-Morcan/e/B005ET3ZUO/
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In the new release book THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER, Charlie Truganini can’t believe his eyes when on a trip into Tasmania’s wilderness he sees a Tasmanian tiger – a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct.
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Charlie has a number of claims to fame – one of those being he’s a direct descendant of one Truganini, the woman considered to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian and whose name he inherited. A close second to that is he’s the great-grandson of one Dingo Truganini, the tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus – an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger.
It’s his admiration for his great-grandfather’s exploits that explains why 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 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.
THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082GGKR77/
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My next short story, A GLADIATOR’S LOVE, will be published soon… Watch this space!
In the soon-to-be-released short story A GLADIATOR’S LOVE, Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill.
Watch this space!
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Our first non-fiction book, The Orphan Conspiracies, is more conspiracy fact than fiction even if it was inspired by the 29 conspiracy theories featured in our international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy.
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More conspiracy fact than fiction.
The Orphan Conspiracies includes a foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha and an afterword by renowned historian Professor Richard Spence. In many ways, this exhaustively-researched work is the secret history of the 20th and 21st Centuries. But more than a history, it reveals what is happening right now behind the scenes – in underground bunkers, in the corridors of power, in prime banks and meetings of the world’s elite.
Topics covered in The Orphan Conspiracies (in order of chapters) include:
Foreword by Dr. Takaaki Musha
Introduction
1 False flag operations
2 The secret history of mind control
3 Puppet masters pulling strings
4 International banksters
5 Genius techniques of the elite
6 The multi-trillion dollar WW2 cover-up
7 Suppressed science
8 The Queen’s invisible riches
9 Elixir of life
10 Jonestown: suicides or mass murder?
11 Medical Industrial Complex
12 The Fourth Reich
13 The price of a free media
14 Above the President
15 The science of racism
16 Bankrupting the Third World
17 New World Order
18 Saddam Hussein: fabricated enemy?
19 Beneath the surface
20 Hidden messages
21 Real-life Manchurian Candidates
22 Blood minerals
23 Mysterious deaths
24 Secret prisons
25 Drug wars
26 Greenland aka Conspiracyland
27 The Catcher in the Rye enigma
28 Experiments on orphans
29 Area 51: human or alien technologies?
Connecting the dots
Afterword by Professor Richard Spence
The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J4MPFT6/
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DEBUNKING HOLOCAUST DENIAL THEORIES: Two Non-Jews Affirm the Historicity of the Nazi Genocide, with foreword by Holocaust survivor Hetty E. Verolme (author of The Children’s House of Belsen), aims to end the denial once and for all by tackling the bizarre phenomenon head-on. Written in close consultation with Holocaust survivors and World War Two historians, no stone is left unturned in meticulously verifying the historical facts of the genocide.
In researching and writing our historical adventure Into the Americas (A novel based on a true story) – a labor of love spanning 13 years – we first came across the centuries-old diary entries of young English seaman John Jewitt in early 2002. And we immediately became enamored with this intriguing slice of North American history.
However, it took untold drafts and careful study of the region – including consultation with the tribal peoples of the Pacific Northwest – before we finally felt confident we had developed the original bare bones historical account into the epic adventure novel it deserved to be in literary format.
As with writing any novel based on or inspired by a true story, we had a million agonizing decisions to make along the way. Decisions like what aspects of the historical events needed to be added to, fictionalized or given more layers, and what could be kept exactly as occurred but expanded upon or dramatized.
Even after all these years of focusing on the history we still feel John Jewitt’s story is one of the great true wilderness survival tales of all time.
Thankfully, readers seem to resonate with this novel and it continues to attract stellar reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.
If you enjoyed Into the Americas, you may enjoy our other adventure novels White Spirit (another novel based on a true story), The Dogon Initiative, World Odyssey and Fiji: A Novel.
-Lance & James Morcan
Book’s Amazon review rating = 4.4 out of 5 stars after 187 reviews.
★★★★★ “Extremely well researched, the main character’s ‘coming of age’ is told with detached and stark brutality.” -Award-winning author Lee Murray.
Into the Americas (A novel based on a true story) is available via Amazon as a paperback or Kindle ebook: http://www.amazon.com/Into-Americas-novel-based-story-ebook/dp/B00YJKM51E/
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Our adventure-romance epic Fiji: A Novel (The World Duology Book 2) appears to have resonated with this Fijian book blogger and reviewer…
★★★★★ “As a Fijian, I find the old traditions of our people fascinating and just as great as they are crude and gruesome. The novel touches on most of these now extinct practices, in mad detail and it’s AWESOME! … Racial prejudice, religion, culture and family were the underlying messages … The adventure, fast-paced and nail biting … The romance, sizzling, exciting, forbidden … I give it 5 stars because that’s the maximum amount of stars we’re allowed to give.” -Random Writings Book Reviews (Suva, Fiji)
As the pharaohs of ancient Egypt build their mighty pyramids, and Chinese civilization evolves under the Shang Dynasty, adventurous seafarers from South East Asia begin to settle the far-flung islands of the South Pacific. The exotic archipelago of Fiji is one of the last island groups to be discovered and will remain hidden from the outside world for many centuries to come. By the mid-1800’s, Fiji has become a melting pot of cannibals, warring native tribes, sailors, traders, prostitutes, escaped convicts and all manner of foreign undesirables. It’s in this hostile environment an innocent young Englishwoman and a worldly American adventurer find themselves.
Fiji: A Novel is available as a paperback and Kindle ebook via Amazon: http://amazon.com/Fiji-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B0057YCZM0/
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White Spirit and Into the Americas, our two historical fiction novels that are both based on true-life, wilderness survival tales, remain firm favorites with our followers, currently enjoying an average 4.5 star rating with Amazon book reviewers.
Two novels for lovers of true-life, wilderness survival tales.
To see what the critics are saying go to:
White Spirit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWIRH9J/
Into the Americas: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Americas-novel-based-story-ebook/dp/B00YJKM51E/
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In White Spirit (A novel based on a true story) escaped convict John Graham learns the Aboriginal First Nations people of Australia believe their loved-ones sometimes return from the Dreaming as a white spirit.
Excerpt from novel follows:
The villagers were shouting encouragement to the pair tasked with ridding the white spirit from their midst. If the Irishman had been in any doubt about what his captors had planned for him, he was in no doubt now. As he was lifted over the fire, he began screaming. “Please! Put me down!”
At the sound of John speaking in a foreign tongue, the Kabi fell silent. The pair holding him dropped him to the ground, startled.
Only now did Mamba have a clear view. Like the others of her clan, she’d been mesmerised by her first sighting of a white man. However, for no apparent reason, when she looked at…
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