Canarian Conspiracy

Abduction

Cherry Aid

Deception

Cult of Bigots

Happenstance

Having qualified as a medic, David joins the army. Whilst there, based on experiments performed by Lord Seth in Genesis, he completes a PhD in naturally occurring cardio & neurotoxins.

The MI5 agent who noted David’s actions in Genesis, having moved to MI6, declares his thesis too dangerous to publish and MI6 agents visit him at Akrotiri, an RAF base in Cyprus, to tell him so. They offer him an opportunity to head his own research laboratory associated with Porton Down, the government’s bioweapons facility. If he can increase the toxins’ potency and manufacture them in-house, far better to eliminate those considered detrimental to British interests by stealth and ostensibly ‘natural’ causes, than by bullets and explosions.

David doesn’t trust the government and accepts only if he can deliver such ‘rough justice’ himself, after reviewing the evidence for its necessity. After three years, his research successful, he spends two years training with the SAS and in spy craft. He becomes a black-ops assassin, Night Owl, with the former M15 agent, now in MI6 and known as George W, as his ‘handler’. His first mission, in Tenerife, is not to kill but to gather information on an Egyptian buying arms for a terrorist attack. His objectives become blurred when he discovers other serious criminal activity in Tenerife. Can he deal with both?

Though it involves Night Owl, Judy’s Diary is mostly about Cinders, one of his two black-ops colleagues, whose code name results from her ability to play princess or pauper, just like Cinderella. She is just as lethal as Night Owl but – as in Treason – also uses her feminine wiles.

Judy, an old friend’s daughter, goes missing during Fresher’s Week at Bristol University. Due to her black-ops work, Cinders only has very infrequent contact with her friend and only finds out about this when, a year later, a body is found in Judy’s former hostel. The victim looks like Judy but isn’t. Why would someone replace Judy by a dead look-alike? Is Judy still alive?

Believing that Cinders works as an undercover investigator on her long trips abroad, her friend asks Cinders to investigate her daughter’s disappearance. She does so via Judy’s diary, which her mother could never bring herself to read.

Genesis is about David Wilkins as a medical student who, after falling in love with Jayne, discovers she is involved in a quasi-religious cult run by the self-proclaimed Lord Seth. He drugs and kidnaps her to force her to have his baby because she looks like his sister. David rescues her but, unable to have Lord Seth prosecuted, kills him during the rescue, ‘rough justice’, not realising his actions have been noted by an MI5 agent who subsequently follows his career.

Sadly, David is unable to save Jayne from her cult-induced drug addiction and, to spare him, Jayne chooses to disappear without telling him that she is expecting his child. This comes back to haunt him twenty-five years later in Shadows of the Past.

An ex-SAS colleague of David, who left due to an injury saving David’s life when in action years ago, contacts him. Now working as a security consultant, the colleague has discovered some information, important to national security, whilst installing security equipment in a foreign embassy. He won’t discuss it over the phone and arranges to meet David personally in Brighton.

Early the following morning, David, as FME, is called to an unexpected death, thought to be a suicide. It turns out to be his friend and not a suicide, though David initially has to treat it as such while he investigates.

The friend’s eighteen-year-old daughter is kidnapped to stop the investigation. The only way to ensure her release is for David to offer his life in exchange. He can try to fake his death while the kidnappers watch, but it’s very risky. Even if successful, can he learn enough to stop the bomb?

Nigel’s Nightmare

Red Wilson Blindness

In Genesis, unknown to David, Jayne gives birth. Twenty-five years later, David takes on a recently qualified medic as trainee FME without knowing it is his son. Only at the tragic end does David learn this. The ordeal suffered by David and his family in the interim, and how they deal with it, forms the basis of the book.

In his second appearance as an FME, David still has Night Owl’s skills and access to databases and advanced technology. He is asked by George W, his ex-handler at MI6, to keep an eye on the Spanish daughter of an asset in Barcelona. She is currently a student at Oxford University. He can hardly refuse, given the help that George W provided during Treason. Having just taken his wife, Saphir, to Paris for her birthday, she encourages him to take Toni, his other ‘wife’, on the trip. After all, it should be straightforward.

Once in Oxford, David encounters a Mossad agent of the Israeli intelligence services, guarding the son of an Israeli cabinet minister who is studying there. He unearths a terrorist plan to kill an Israeli professor whilst giving a lecture to a group of students, one of whom is the son of the cabinet minister. Only a twisted mind could conceive of the way the bomb would be smuggled into the group.

TNT

Web of Deceit

It’s Wednesday the 10th of March 1999; David Wilkins, ex black-ops assassin Night Owl and now a Forensic Medical Examiner with Sussex Police, has a regular lunch date with Saphir, his gorgeous girlfriend. It’s her 24th birthday and he plans, over lunch, to ask her to marry him and move into his just completed new residence. He’s bought her a Mercedes two-seater sports car as a present and they decide to go for lunch in that, rather than in his Porsche as they usually do.

This is very fortunate; it means they aren’t in his Porsche at one o’clock, when, left parked in the University car park, it is blown up by someone obviously trying to kill him.

The result is a tale of suspense, horror, death, personal sacrifice, psychological manipulation and romance. An emotional roller coaster of intense happiness, sadness, despair, helplessness and humour.

It involves:

• David: ex-army doctor, now forensic expert, capable of deep empathy and compassion but also cold, emotionless decision making. With an ultimate sense of justice but also some deep, dark secrets.
• Saphir: his young but mature, Goddess-like girlfriend. Intelligent, sensuous, capable.
• Juno: an ex-drug addict, prostitute. Now with decent future prospects.
• Psycho Sam: charming but damaged from early childhood. Fascinated by pain and fire.
• The Home Secretary: obsessed and depraved by power.
• The Prime Minister: torn between moral outrage and saving his government.
• Nigel: a detective sergeant and David’s liaison officer, with potentially divided loyalties.
• Toni: a university student on work experience. Changed from girl to woman.
• ‘Cinders’ and ‘Ghost’: two ex-colleagues of David, known only by their code names; the former outrageously permissive, the latter an obscure martial artist. Both devastatingly efficient.
• ‘Grandpa’: who wants to retire but can’t.

MI5, MI6, black-ops, a drugs cartel, specialist weapons, explosives, psychoactive drugs, Southern England, France, Spain, Greek islands. A fictional tale - but every detail could be occurring.
Right now. Somewhere not far away…

To tell more here would spoil the story. Suffice to say, it takes all of David’s expertise as an ex black-ops assassin, together with help from Cinders and Ghost, to find out who wanted him dead, and why – and to bring the perpetrator to justice.

About the Author, Osian Giles

The author, somewhat like Dr David Wilkins in the Night Owl books (though not a black-ops assassin!), uses an assumed name. He is qualified in medicine and surgery; has many years experience in night emergency medicine, general practice, occupational health and forensic medicine, and has worked as a Clinical Assistant in Psychiatry, delivering psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.

Doctors’ Lament

I have lived a thousand years through the eyes of other men,
wearied with their heartache, fears and pain.
Understood, more than I sought or cared to know.
Became, a wounded doctor, with broken heart, tormented brain.
One day, I’ll heal enough to put the scars on show,
begin to live my own life once again.

© Osian Giles - 2006

Osian obtained a BA first class honours degree in psychology, philosophy and creative writing; completed the first two years of a BSc (hons) in maths & chemistry and the first year of an MBA, the latter two regrettably unfinished due to time constraints. In addition to his medical career, Osian owned and ran several business enterprises, and was a Member of the Chartered Institute of Managers and the Institute of Directors.

Whilst all Osian’s novels are works of fiction, many contain fictionalised versions of real events occurring during his career and travels abroad. By necessity, in being ‘thrillers’, they concentrate on the darker side of life. Thankfully, most of Osian’s life has been blessed with trustworthy and altruistic people.

Osian wrote the first draft of his first novel, Treason, in about three months and thought that would be it. Within a month, he missed writing, wrote Shadows of the Past, a sequel, then Genesis, a prequel, to explain why his main character, David Wilkins a.k.a. Night Owl, turned out as portrayed. He wrote many more with David, as a forensic medical examiner, using his former ‘spy’ skills to achieve justice. First Mission followed as a bridge between Genesis and Treason. Whilst all Night Owl books can be read as stand-alone novels, they form a natural series relating to David’s exploits since his student days in 1973.

For the main characters, who appear in every novel, Osian attempted to adjust their personalities as they aged and endured (or enjoyed) more life experiences. He generally also tries to include some background for the nasty characters to enable the reader to understand the reasons for their behaviour.

David Wilkins, aka Night Owl

Though not my real name, everyone knows me as Dr David Wilkins. Born in South Wales January 1955, I enjoyed a happy and unremarkable childhood during which I decided on becoming a doctor. Whilst a medical student, I fell in love with Jayne. She joined a quasi-religious brainwashing cult which, I discovered, provided a range of dubious services, including a discrete high-class brothel catering to wealthy and influential clients.

In my attempt to save Jayne, I tracked down the cult leader and his ‘church’. Unable to have him prosecuted effectively by the judiciary, I tossed him over a cliff and burned his ‘church’ to the ground; rough justice ¹. Unknown to me at the time, an employee of MI5 took note of my actions.

After qualifying, I became an army medic and read the records retrieved from the cult prior to the fire. Captivating if decidedly repellent, they described the cult leader’s fascination with the effects of pharmacological substances extracted from global flora and fauna, and his monstrous experiments on animals, including humans (echoes of Mengele). They prompted me to undertake a PhD in naturally occurring cardio and neurotoxins.

Though awarded my doctorate, MI6 had taken an interest and classified my research as too dangerous to publish. Instead, they offered me a job developing it further in my own laboratory associated with Porton Down. Their belief I would simply hand over the resulting toxins proved delusional. I insisted they could only be used by me, only on ‘marks’ I considered deserving of rough justice: those unable to be stopped by normal judicial means. Under the code name Night Owl, I became an operative, trained in many specialities, including by the SAS. I obtained access to technology and databases you will never know exist.

Me. A paradox:
a caring, compassionate doctor
and a cold-hearted black-ops assassin.

During some eight years as Night Owl, I undertook many missions, some of which, together with other operatives I knew as Cinders and Ghost, have been documented as fictional stories by the author Osian Giles ². Eventually, I became disillusioned with increasing government immorality and quit to set up a private practice in Brighton, where I took on a side job as lecturer in Forensic Medicine and became a Forensic Medical Examiner (FME), using my expertise and equipment to help the local police to track down and nail criminals; some very nasty indeed.

I bought a disused café, overlooking the sea, on the coast road between Brighton and Peacehaven, and not just for the views. Underneath what was originally a row of fishermen’s cottages, I accidentally discovered rooms and passages once used by smugglers. I converted the property to become my home, with the rooms beneath equipped as my own forensic laboratory and workshops, housing state of the art computer systems, satellite communications equipment and weapons collected from around the world during my black-ops days. Fitted with air filtration and desalination units, a family could live there for years in isolation; a survivalist’s fantasy.

The conversion work took 4 years. When finished, I asked Saphir, my gorgeous girlfriend, to marry me. She said yes but our plans had to be put on hold because that very day, the 10th of March 1999, her 24th birthday, someone tried to kill me. So started a train of events requiring all my black-ops expertise, with the help of my old black-ops colleagues Cinders and Ghost, to identify and bring to justice the perpetrator.

Treason is available either as an eBook or as a paperback book

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