Ian Townsend: 6 books

An adventure based on real events, "No Going Back" begins with a getaway aboard a yacht Slipping out of Vancouver Harbour under cover of darkness, Ian Townsend escapes with his son David, fleeing barely ahead of the authorities who had seized his young son and put him into care after the...

On the run from an FBI air and sea search involving the US Navy, unable to clear himself as the victim for another man’s crime, Ian Townsend and his nine year old son David, secrete their yacht, Vixen, inside an uninhabited South Pacific atoll. Ian tells David they are avoiding a North Korean longliner...

Over the last few decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of a peaceful and stable South China Sea for Indo-Pacific security and development, a recognition that has been underlain, paradoxically, by the increasingly precarious situation in this body of water that straddles critical...

Shortlisted for the National Year of Reading 2012 Award January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. turner,...

A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel ... It is 1899, and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing - a hurricane named Mahina. to a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets, and a native policeman trying...

In Vietnam, the III Marine Amphibious Force used Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) as one part of its operational level counterinsurgency campaign. These platoons provided security assistance to the South Vietnamese Popular Forces and civic action to the village based population. To measure the operational...