Ian Moffitt: 8 books

Nick Andrews uncovers a macabre secret when he moves into the house on the cliff - a mystery which draws him into Black Bay's crumbling community of eccentrics and the insane. He gropes into the distant past - lured from Black Bay's ruined fort, its rocks carved with records of smallpox and bubonic...

Quinn lives alone, scarred by personal tragedy and recollections of a wartime massacre near a remote monastery in China, the Retreat of Radiance. After thirty years he plots a suicidal revenge against the perpetrator of the massacre, Keh, a former Chinese Civil War general who has made secret millions...

"From the jungle's rich decay he is coaxing his own pale shoots of hope...Somewhere in there, waiting for him to discover it, lies the biochemical basis of happiness." These powerful stories tear the veil from a fascinating world which touches us all - although we often try to shut...

What really happened to Bomber Command navigator Brian Maxwell during the Second World War? Why is his widow so mysteriously silent on the subject of her late husband? To answer these questions, "Blue Angels" flashes back to the murderous kaleidoscopic days of the aerial battle over Europe....

Out there, suddenly pressed against a porthole, was Kolly. He wasn't swimming. He was dancing - a slow dance as the tide pushed him in. Around his neck was knotted cord. He was dead. Odd fish and Sometime Journalist Alexander Kolnachov disappears from his home,a bizarre wax museum in Cairns....

It is 1920 and two babies come into the world in very different circumstances: Grace born of a violent union, but destined for a golden future, and Mike, a country boy with a talent for boxing, whose determination to succeed on his own terms brings him into conflict when he starts to make a name for...

"He stepped down from the rocks onto the riverbed. Six minutes to live, but he didn't now it then. He loved - and feared - this place as it was, but its secret was going to come out now...He began crossing the riverbed...Four minutes."Why was part-Aboriginal lawyer Tony Grant brutally...

Great programmers aren't born--they're made. The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you...