Danny Rook

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Danny Rook is a radio operator.

He will also be described after a time as a mercenary. And someone who finds himself in the most unusual positions at what turn out to be incredibly important turning points in human history. At times this uncanny placement seems totally impossible and implausible but ... we was told at the beginning of these many adventures: "Studying history, we sometimes come to a point where the provable facts run out and then pick up again on the other side. The genre of Secret History - which is fiction, after all - invites readers to think about the previously untold story and perhaps to wonder whether it could be true. In the end, who can disprove a story that has never been recorded in the media or archive records, when all the other details appear to be established facts...?"

BOOKS

Number of Books:	5
First Appearance:	2021
Last Appearance:	2024


1			Bunkeya Written by A. P. Handler Copyright: 2021 Subtitled: How Danny Rook left home, acquired a history, and failed to stop Mao getting the H-bomb. "Danny Rook is only 17, rather shy and he has somehow arrived in the Congo as a mercenary. Nor is he alone. Cuba, China, Russia – they all want a hand in the post-colonial re-domination of Africa. Naturally, the USA has a different outcome in mind. When Danny’s training exercise turns nasty and then an RAF aircraft crashes nearby with something even more terrible in its bomb bay, it is China that seems to hold all the aces. As the song goes – ‘it’s the same the whole world over’ – government incompetence at the highest level, with nobody knowing really what the hell is going on, and the little people at ground level having to dig the powerful people out of the mess they have got themselves and their countries into. If they want to survive,,,

2			Pedro Miguel Written by A. P. Handler Copyright: 2022 Subtitled: How Danny Rook defused a bomb, broke a promise, and helped to end the Vietnam war. "Next to Mao, Lin Biao is the most powerful man in China, and the Russians have turned him. While Lin and President Richard Nixon might be on opposing sides, they agree on one thing – they both want to end the Vietnam War. But where Nixon’s plan is characteristically devious, Lin’s is drastic, secret and not just dangerous – but possibly apocalyptic. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there is a British freighter, and on board, two junior officers who don’t have the full picture but stand the best chance of preventing disaster. If only they can outwit their own captain and hoodwink a boatload of Chinese pirates. Meanwhile, Lin’s wife and son are plotting to overthrow Mao. And on board the ship, radio officer Danny Rook is working on encrypting the most important message of his life."

3			Kola Written by A. P. Handler Copyright: 2022 Subtitled: How Danny Rook got spirited away, found the coldest place in the Cold War, tried to stop everything hotting up, and discovered that he was expendable. It is now the summer of 1975 and, in the north of Finland, the forests are in trouble… trees, animals, bugs are dying off. And just across the border, inside Russia, a huge arrow-shaped structure has showed up on satellite imagery. But the photos are too oblique and too shaded by clouds for the photo-reconnaissance analysts to work out what’s going on. NATO needs to take a look at this weird arrow from ground level. But whom can they send? Someone resourceful… someone with the right knowledge… someone who isn’t on a government payroll… Someone expendable? It could just be time to send for Danny Rook. But where is he? Meanwhile, university arboriculturists think they know what’s causing the forests to die back, so they want to get a look inside Russia too…"

4			Tabarin Written by A. P. Handler Copyright: 2022 Subtitled: How Danny Rook ran into an old shipmate, got properly Shanghai-ed, continued to feel expendable – and finally quit. "Argentina has just invaded the Falkland Islands and Danny Rook is trawling through hundreds of half-crazy letters sent to the MoD by members of the British public, wanting to help. But one letter stands out as not so barmy. It suggests the Junta could employ chemical warfare, based on leftover stocks from a secret Nazi wartime operation… And the story stacks up pretty well. What’s worse – it could prove to be a big embarrassment for Britain. A few days later, Danny’s boss asks him to interrogate an Argentinian prisoner at Ascension Island – “There is nobody else!” But it’s a ruse to get him aboard the Task Force. Once again, it’s time for Danny Rook, unlikely crusader, to put his objections to one side and follow his nose…"

5			Kantubek Written by A. P. Handler Copyright: 2024 Subtitled: How Danny Rook met an obsessed man, lost a mentor (but gained a friend) and how, when his worst predictions just kept coming true, he quit again."The cost-cutters have arrived in Whitehall. Danny Rook’s job has gone for the chop, so they’ve transferred him to the Department of Trade to vet export licenses. But life is never simple for Danny. Why will nobody see the connection between a Russian germ warfare scientist who has defected in Paris, a Canadian artillery expert running a project in Iraq, and some high-grade steel tubes being machined in a factory near Birmingham? And oh yes – Danny has just rescued a damsel in distress..."

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