Jim Burk: 9 books

Del Burk farmed, ranched and guided big-game hunters in some of the richest wild-life areas of Canada.  The biography covers a recent patch of history, but a patch already gone.  The farm equipment he knew now belong in museums, and the ranching practices of the fifties and sixties have...

In a previous novel Russell Stonechild saves the Earl of Gall's son from Nazi saboteurs.  He receives an invitatiion to the earl's manor and attends a formal banquest in the company of several interesting guests.  These include Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador to England, and Alan Turing, a...

Action begins in Khartoum, Sudan where Russell Stonechild faces the complexities of service to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.  The year 1940.  Following a failed mission into the emperor's homeland (Stonechild, Emperor's Messenger) Russell receives new orders from the Emperor. ...

Near death, Russell Stonechild recuperates in a Scottish hospital and becomes recipient of a new antibiotic, penicillin.  He recovers sufficiently in a debriefing process where he describes his insertion into a German military complex and his retrieval of a German encrypting machine .  The...

In the first major victory of World War 2, Britain helps drive Mussolini’s fascists from Ethiopia.  The aftermath of victory leaves a great deal of war material in the hands of the conquerors.  A British officer, Colonel Adams, gains the privilege of repurposing these spoils of war and...

Stonechild: Emperor’s Messenger: It is early July, 1940. In a single month the Germans have defeated the combined armies of Britain and France. After a desperate escape in which he leads a small group including a Polish cryptanalyst carrying a package destined to change the nature of the conflict,...

Stonechild Volunteers:  In mid-March 1939 Russell Stonechild a temporary attendee at the Fort QuAppelle Indian Industrial School is presented with a recruitment ad for a private Scots Battalion.  He leaves for the recruitment office in Halifax, and, with no papers is assigned a birthplace...

This book is an autobiography motivated by the need to document and pass on my life experiences not just to my children but to many around and those to come. Coming from a culture that was mainly oral in passing on information from one generation to the next, it has become increasingly clear...

This novel begins with Russell Stonechild on his back in the British Military Hospital in Haifa, Palestine.  He has just experienced the traumatic burial of 800 slaughtered English troops in the remotest depths of the Egyptian Desert.  The burial is followed by a 400 mile journey, alone, across...