The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) top rated
The Orphan Factory, our prequel to The Ninth Orphan, has entered Amazon’s top rated spy books list only three weeks after its publication launch.
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The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) top rated
Posted: August 11, 2012 in The Orphan FactoryTags: assassins, cia, coming of age, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, genetic engineering, intelligence agencies, international thriller, jonestown, jonestown mass suicide, new world order, now, orphan assassins, orphanage, orphans, president, secret societies, spy mystery, spy thriller, techno thriller, white gold, young adult, young adult novel, young adult thriller
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News Release: Kiwi father and son guide their orphans to the spotlight
Posted: August 10, 2012 in The Orphan FactoryTags: assassins, cia, coming of age, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, genetic engineering, intelligence agencies, international thriller, jonestown, jonestown mass suicide, new world order, now, orphan assassins, orphanage, orphans, president, secret societies, spy mystery, spy thriller, techno thriller, white gold, young adult, young adult novel, young adult thriller
The Orphan Factory, the latest novel from prolific New Zealand father-and-son writing and filmmaking team Lance and James Morcan, has entered Amazon’s top rated spy books list only three weeks after its publication launch.
The new release espionage thriller has received excellent reviews from readers and book critics alike. It’s a prequel to the Morcans’ international thriller, The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1), which was published in 2011 by Sterling Gate Books.
Also published last year was their historical adventure Fiji: A Novel. It and The Ninth Orphan have been regular visitors to Amazon’s bestseller lists. The authors are adapting both these into feature film screenplays and have put them into development with their production company, Morcan Motion Pictures.
Meanwhile, the Morcans are currently writing the final novel in The Orphan Trilogy, a sequel titled The Orphan Uprising, for publication in 2013.
Lance, who is based in Papamoa, says their film and literary endeavours, which span more than a decade, haven’t been without their challenges.
“James, who is also an actor, is based in Sydney so we have had to do most of our writing long distance,” he says.
“Father-and-son novel writing teams are almost unheard of, and that does pose some interesting creative challenges. Add to that working in separate countries and it feels like mission impossible at times.
“However, with the success of our latest novel and creation of a viable thriller franchise, the colossal effort over so many years all suddenly seems worthwhile.”
Morcan Motion Pictures has produced two feature films. These are The Pawn, which was shot in Melbourne and has screened at film festivals in Australia and Italy, and the New Zealand thriller Desired, which premiered at Cannes last year.
The Morcans are currently seeking New Zealand Film Commission funding for Silent Fear, a chilling thriller which involves Auckland’s deaf community and will be helmed by rising Auckland director Amanda Phillips.
Supporting links:
The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC
The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
Fiji: A Novel: http://www.amazon.com/Fiji-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B0057YCZM0/
Amazon’s top rated Spy Books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/top-rated/digital-text/157322011/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_tr?pf_rd_p=1374969722&pf_rd_s=right-8&pf_rd_t=2101&pf_rd_i=list&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0EN7ADDFZTH5HRBGKAAS
Book #2 in The Orphan Trilogy launched!
Posted: July 29, 2012 in The Orphan FactoryTags: assassins, cia, coming of age, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, genetic engineering, intelligence agencies, international thriller, jonestown, jonestown mass suicide, new world order, now, orphan assassins, orphanage, orphans, president, secret societies, spy mystery, spy thriller, techno thriller, white gold, young adult, young adult novel, young adult thriller
Welcome to this, our first blog!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new release thriller novel The Orphan Factory – Book #2 in The Orphan Trilogy.
Published by Sterling Gate Books, it’s the prequel to The Ninth Orphan, which has been a regular visitor to Amazon’s bestseller lists and which we have adapted to a feature film screenplay. (Book #1 is now in development with Morcan Motion Pictures).
The Orphan Factory is coming-of-age spy thriller – an epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago’s Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle.
The storyline in brief:
In the late 1970’s, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont Project – a radical experiment utilizing genetic engineering technologies – to create twenty three orphan babies with the plan to turn them into the world’s most effective assassins.
One of the prodigies will rebel: meet Number Nine, an orphan with a mind of his own.
In 1998, when Nine reaches adulthood and graduates with honors from the Pedemont Orphanage, he is already an adept of the deadly espionage arts. Ordered by his Omega masters to assassinate a survivor of the Jonestown tragedy in Guyana’s Amazon rainforest, Nine is forced to draw upon all of his advanced training just to stay alive.
The Orphan Factory is selling now as an ebook via Amazon. The trade paperback version will be published later in 2012, and the sequel, The Orphan Uprising, will be published in 2013.
The Amazon link for the Kindle ebook version is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/
Happy reading! (Reviews are welcome).
The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1)
Posted: July 29, 2012 in The Ninth OrphanTags: action, action adventure, action and adventure, action thriller, adventure, Bilderberg, conspiracy theories, conspiracy thriller, contemporary fiction, contemporary romance, fiction, international thriller, jack reacher, james morcan, jason bourne, kindle, mens adventure, mk ultra, mystery, spy, spy mystery, spy thriller, the ninth orphan, the orphan trilogy, thriller, yamashita, yamashitas gold
How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice?
That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, our international thriller novel and Book #1 in The Orphan Trilogy…
An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, the mysterious man’s life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed.
Fast-paced, totally fresh and original, filled with deep and complex characters, The Ninth Orphan is a controversial, high-octane thriller with an edge. Merging fact with fiction, it illuminates shadow organizations rumored to exist in the real world.
Tackling genetic selection, mind control, secret societies and a chase around the globe, The Ninth Orphan also has a poignant, romantic sub-plot. The story contains the kind of intimate character portraits usually associated with psychological novels.
The Ninth Orphan, published in 2011 by Sterling Gate Books, is selling as an ebook via Amazon and as a trade paperback via Amazon and CreateSpace. The paperback is also available through most libraries and major book distributors.
A regular visitor to Amazon’s bestseller lists, we have also adapted the novel to a feature film screenplay and put it into development with Morcan Motion Pictures.
The Amazon link for the Kindle ebook version is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC
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