Born in South Wales he began training as a mining surveyor before moving from working under the ground to above the ground by joining the R.A.F. to train as an aircrew navigator. After completing his service, he joined an international company and worked in sales, training and marketing before being appointed managing director of a subsidiary company. With a wide range of experience, he then became self-employed as a management consultant before retiring to build walls, play tennis and begin writing novels.
Overnight Tom Hartley became a grieving widower after years of happy marriage and rebuilt his life by making new friends and taking up new interests. He moved house and set up a gardening club which also helped elderly residents and arranged walks and other social activities. After a number of close friendships with lonely ladies, he fell in love with neighbour Helen who had been working with him on the gardening club. Concerned about Tom’s over-friendly nature, Helen insisted on a one-year engagement and that they should continue to live in separate homes for Tom to prove that he could resist temptation. All went well until a glamorous widow moved in next door and began making advances.An unexpected event brought about a change in plans and Tom and Helen had to sell their homes and move to a rundown property requiring months of hard work and expense to restore. Despite their problems the couple have fun together and their love blossoms.
Tom Hartley retires and soon afterwards his wife dies. After years of happy marriage, he is left alone in the large family home. Realising that he has to build himself a new life, he moves into a smaller house, tries new activities and makes new friends amongst other lonely senior singles. He takes Spanish lessons, tries yoga, singles holidays, dancing, tennis and crosses America along Route 66, all with hilarious consequences as he throws himself into his new lifestyle. After gaining and losing one love, he finds another very unexpectedly.
Soldiers destroy a remote Romanian village and three die, which starts a trail of killing and vengeance spread across two countries. When his company and family are then threatened by the Russian Mafia in Liverpool, Jack Randil has to outwit his enemies at home and a murderous assassin stalking his niece and her fiancé in Hungary. In his battle with the ruthless foreigners, Jack finds himself an unwilling ally of local gangsters, until they also pose a threat. A Romanian government official is brutally killed and a soldier suffers a lingering death, which alerts the authorities and brings a clever detective to work with Jack to expose and arrest the killer. As they threaten him, the assassin sets a trap to save himself and kill Jack and his friends.
Thoroughly enjoyed the narration. Jenkins knows how to captivate readers with his incredible storytelling. Humour in the book was fantastic. I recommend this book to middle-aged readers because they ........
Retired, kids grown up, lost a partner? It can happen, but don’t lose heart and miss out on enjoying the years ahead of you. Why not build a new life by joining in new activities and making new friend ........
After writing four crime thrillers, when Covid 19 closed my local tennis courts and leisure centre I used the lockdown to change the genre of my books to humour. With so much free time I wrote t ........
The book was published by Austin Macauley on 31 August 2021 and is available in three formats : – E-B00k at £3.50, Paperback at £!0.99 and Hardback at £12.99. An audio version will follow if sal ........
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