Michael Parker: 83 books

When Charlie Picket was sent to Mexico by his boss, he didn't expect to end up with a thirteen year old girl in tow and be hunted by the FBI, the CIA and the Mexican police. But the hunters wanted the girl who was key to the theft of ten billion dollars and the overthrow of the Mexican government.

Michael Parker was born and raised in Norfolk, the county that he continues to call home. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he took a degree in agriculture (third class) in 1953. He is a keen naturalist and has travelled extensively for photographing wildlife, shooting and fishing. He is...

These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we’ll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we’ll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the...

Hidden, Vatican gold and three murdered soldiers is the secret Captain Miles Roselli thought he'd buried during the Second World War. Twenty years later the gold is uncovered, and Roselli finds himself in a life and death battle against those who would seek to destroy him and the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church.

Martin Quil is a killer; he hunts men down, but sometimes the tables get turned. When Quil is sent to Germany by his controller at MI6 to find the man responsible for the death of a British agent, he uncovers a Chechnyan plot to assassinate the Russian president, and as he gets closer to the killer,...

A savage struggle between good and evil in Africa's great Rift Valley. Ten thousand, armed Masai tribesmen threaten to overwhelm the sprawling railway camp at Nairobi in the year 1898. Left to defend the camp and its inhabitants, Major Kingsley Webb faces defeat with just 250 soldiers under his command....

It is 1943 and the battle of the Atlantic is being ferociously contested by the Allies and Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the storm-lashed waters off the north coast of Scotland a German commando group lands on the remote shores of North Cape Island. Bruno Schafer has personal orders from Admiral Dönitz...

Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen He controls an enormous industry that covers most aspects of everyday life. The key to controlling his organization is a week-old baby boy, and Franz Molke—leader of the People's Party in Germany—aims to control the Schiller empire...

The apparent suicide of a British Cabinet Minister is questioned by the former head of MI6, Sir Giles Cavendish. He asks private investigator, Marcus Blake to use his unusual talents in learning the truth. Marcus uncovers more than he believed possible as he comes up against a group of powerful Satanists...

Marcus Blake's ramshackle security agency has no clients to speak of until Susan Ellis walks into his office and asks him to help find her brother who has gone missing in Afghanistan. In that moment, Marcus' world is turned upside down and he is plunged into a covert war where arms and drugs are traded...

Hilarious and educational, Boogers Are Blessings will have your child counting and giggling along with its mischievous host, whose mission is to inform the world of all of the glorious qualities of boogers. This little boy knows the importance of counting his blessings, and he does so-in a way that...

Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and...

Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice provides a rich, case-based account of the ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory. By analysing a wide range of evocative and often arresting cases from practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world...

Parker is a savvy and charismatic promoter of his work and has many connections in the literary world. His reviews and poetry have appeared in, among other places, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Having published books with BOA and Tupelo Press (among others), the reps and some of their accounts should be familiar with Parker.