Lance Weber Series

"Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth." — John Braine, author of “Room at the Top”, in the Sunday Telegraph AFRICAN REVENGE by Andrew McCoy Lance Weber has a brilliant future in international rugby but he makes the dangerous mistake of running up a huge gambling debt. When the debt is called, and reinforced by the chilling threat of casual mutilation, Lance is in trouble. His only way out is to make a lot of money, and to make it fast. In desperation, Lance turns to his brother Ewart, an ex-mercenary with a reputation for ferocious efficiency. With his colleague, Colonel Roux, Ewart has acquired a concession to kill crocodiles along the Congo border and to market the skins. Lance, who harbors romantic notions of a hunting party on safari, agrees to go along. He is in for a series of shocks. To his horror, Lance finds himself embroiled in a ruthless operation that traverses the face of Africa like a mobile small-scale war. Throughout the brutal journey, Lance has to learn a series of new and frightening skills — or die. As the party fights to blast a fortune out of Africa, the continent exacts its own bitter revenge. Andrew McCoy’s two earlier novels, ATROCITY WEEK and THE INSURRECTIONIST, roused violent controversy. With a talent for narrative that moves at a scorching pace, McCoy matches his unique authority — expertise won from experience — to a profound appreciation of the beauty and cruelty of Africa itself. The blend is electrifying. — John Blackwell CoolMain Press will not only be reissuing the three previously published Lance Weber novels by Andrew McCoy, but has also commissioned two new full-length novels which will be published in chronological order in the LANCE WEBER series.

"Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth." John Braine, author of “Room at the Top”, in the Sunday Telegraph *** BLOOD IVORY by Andrew McCoy The equation is simple: on the day the last elephant in the world is shot, ivory will be more valuable than gold. Two men — one a merchant prince, the other a big-game hunter — are preparing for that day by acculumating vast hoards of the irreplaceable tusk. It is the hunter who makes the first mistake, and pays the price. His widow engages Lance Weber on the lethal brief of reclaiming her inheritance from the very heart of war-torn Africa. Lance is on the run from the ghost of Bruun, a man believed by every authority to be dead, who is still killing Lance's employees, friends, parents, drawing concentric circles of terror ever tighter around Lance himself. Lance wants no ivory but he is driven by the need to avenge the many innocent dead and to expunge the evil of Bruun from the face of the earth. Bruun has shown that he too lusts for the ivory, so Lance sets himself, the ivory — and the beautiful widow — as bait for the mad predator. Their violent duel carves a scar across the face of the globe, from Sydney to Kent to Macao, from the harsh red grit of Africa to the suppurating green lushness of the Opium Triangle. — dust-jacket blurb by John Blackwell, from the original hardcover edition *** It did not occur to Mpengi that men would die in Macao, the China Seas, Brussels, Tokyo, the Burmese jungles, Africa and the Kent countryside because the bellies of his children were empty. He did not know of these places. What Mpengi did that would have such disastrous effects around the world, what he did to relieve the gnawing mouse in the bellies of his children, was simplicity itself. He wenr to the camp of the Englishman with the red face and the luxuriant white moustache and told him where to find the last six elephants in the world. — from BLOOD IVORY by Andrew McCoy *** CoolMain Press will not only be reissuing the three previously published Lance Weber novels by Andrew McCoy, but has also commissioned two new full-length novels which will be published in chronological order in the LANCE WEBER series. The first volume, AFRICAN REVENGE, has already been published to critical acclaim.

CAIN’S COURAGE Andrew McCoy Stop the terrorists — dead! When three busloads of kibbutz children are blown up, one evil man is behind the outrage: diehard Nazi fanatic Max Spitz, alive and well, fabulously rich, and living in South America. Part-time kibbutznik Mark Bern resolves to fight fire with fire, but the Israelis don’t want to know. The days of the snatch squads are over. But Bern goes ahead anyway, kidnapping Spitz’s sex-mad teenage granddaughter for a ransom of gold. His aim: to attack the Germans’ heavily defended main gold vault and take the terrorists’ wealth away for good. Against him and his handful of hardened allies: not only ruthlessly bloodthirsty Nazis and the local secret police and army, but even, incredibly, Israeli Intelligence assassins... CAIN’S COURAGE is the shattering story of a thirst for vengeance that literally knows no limits — the brutally violent saga of the struggle to wipe out the most dangerous nest of criminals and terrorists the world has ever known. A famous bestseller comes to e-books for the first time! Jacket blurb by Nick Austin, from the Grafton/Collins print edition Publishers' Note: Lance Weber does not appear in CAIN'S COURAGE, but this novel sets the stage for a forthcoming Lance Weber novel, SMALL WAR, FAR AWAY.

SMALL WAR, FAR AWAY Andrew McCoy CoolMain Press proudly presents a brand new Lance Weber novel commissioned from Andrew McCoy to stand between his classic tales of violent adventure, CAIN’S COURAGE and LANCE OF GOD. Lance Webber is on trial for his life for the adventures recounted in BLOOD IVORY. Even if he escapes the hangman’s rope, he can’t stay in Africa. But his friend Tanner is already established in South America, so Lance goes ranching. However, Hernandez, the military governor of the State, wants Lance and Tanner’s land, and the Falklands War gives him the pretext to turn Lance and his party, including guests like Jimmy and Boo, into wanted criminals on the run. This explosive scenario is complicated by Jimmy’s girlfriend, the daughter of the French politician who has yes-power over delivery of the Exocets without which Argentina knows she will lose the Falklands war. Hernandez must take Jeanine alive or his military superiors will stand him up in front of a firing squad. To save his wife and child, and his friends and their women, Lance must run and fight like he has never run and fought before, several thousand miles down the spine of Argentina to the only safety a stone’s throw from the Antartic at Punta Arenas on Cape Horn. But first, his back to a bridge he has blown up himself, in front of him a single road guarded by several hundred vengeful Argentinian soldiers, he must break out of the forest on the slopes of the Andes in which he has hidden the party. SMALL WAR, FAR AWAY is another triumphant proof that no one excels Andrew McCoy in describing men and women in violent motion with their honor and lives as the prizes of failure. It is a tour de force by a writer at the peak of his form. "Like the unblinking eye of a cobra, it is fascinating and hard to look away from, powerful and unique." Edwin Corley/Good Books