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    Sawdust and Prickly Pear: The Jack Riordan Stories, #2
    Wherever the Wind Blows: The Jack Riordan Stories, #6
    The Queen's Irishman: The Jack Riordan Stories, #1
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    The Jack Riordan Stories Series

    By Patrick Ford

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    About this series

    The continueing story of Jack and Susan Riordan as they raise a family and consolidate their farming business against a backdrop of terrorist threats , drought and collapsing markets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Ford
    Release dateApr 12, 2019
    Sawdust and Prickly Pear: The Jack Riordan Stories, #2
    Wherever the Wind Blows: The Jack Riordan Stories, #6
    The Queen's Irishman: The Jack Riordan Stories, #1

    Titles in the series (7)

    • 1

      The Queen's Irishman: The Jack Riordan Stories, #1
      The Queen's Irishman: The Jack Riordan Stories, #1

      The Queen's Irishman: The Jack Riordan Stories, #1

      Patrick Ford
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      Jack Riordan joins the British Army in Ireland in 1825 as a boy-soldier. It is either that or starve, His adventures are just beginning. He serves in Australia, India and New Zealand. In India, he becomes the Cplour Sergeant of his Regiment is decorated and wounded several times. Repatriated to the chaos of the Irish  potato famine, he rejoins a soldier-settlement detatchment and serves for seven years in New Zealand. He is discharged to Australia and, finding civilian life not to his liking, he joins the moounted police. He and his family will contribute in no small measure in the development of Australia from a penal colony to the proud and prosperous country of today. A story full of adventure, heroism and the pioneering spirit.

      Jack Riordan joins the British Army in Ireland in 1825 as a boy-soldier. It is either that or starve, His adventures are just beginning. He serves in Australia, India and New Zealand. In India, he becomes the Cplour Sergeant of his Regiment is decorated and wounded several times. Repatriated to the chaos of the Irish  potato famine, he rejoins a soldier-settlement detatchment and serves for seven years in New Zealand. He is discharged to Australia and, finding civilian life not to his liking, he joins the moounted police. He and his family will contribute in no small measure in the development of Australia from a penal colony to the proud and prosperous country of today. A story full of adventure, heroism and the pioneering spirit.

    • 2

      Sawdust and Prickly Pear: The Jack Riordan Stories, #2
      Sawdust and Prickly Pear: The Jack Riordan Stories, #2

      Sawdust and Prickly Pear: The Jack Riordan Stories, #2

      Patrick Ford
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      Jack Riordan grows up in the mountain country of New England in New South Wales. He is a skilled horseman and bushman. He craves adventure and sails off for the war in South Africa. Jack is promoted and decorated before a wound sees him go home, where he sets up a carrying business with a bullock team and wagon. Ettie, a nurse he met at the war comes home and the two marry. Ever looking for an opportunity to acquire land in Queensland, he moves his family there establishing a family business, logging and milling timber. Finally, he realises his ambition of owning land. His hard work and enterprise lay the foundation of the Riordan family farming dynasty.

      Jack Riordan grows up in the mountain country of New England in New South Wales. He is a skilled horseman and bushman. He craves adventure and sails off for the war in South Africa. Jack is promoted and decorated before a wound sees him go home, where he sets up a carrying business with a bullock team and wagon. Ettie, a nurse he met at the war comes home and the two marry. Ever looking for an opportunity to acquire land in Queensland, he moves his family there establishing a family business, logging and milling timber. Finally, he realises his ambition of owning land. His hard work and enterprise lay the foundation of the Riordan family farming dynasty.

    • 6

      Wherever the Wind Blows: The Jack Riordan Stories, #6
      Wherever the Wind Blows: The Jack Riordan Stories, #6

      Wherever the Wind Blows: The Jack Riordan Stories, #6

      Patrick Ford
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      Hans is an old soldier, a refugee from post-war Germany. Patrick Riordan befriends him and learns his story. When the old man is arrested and charged with war crimes in the camps of occupied Poland. Patrick and his father, Jack, set off for Europe to find Hans's missing sister, who can prove his identity. Meanwhile, the real criminal is living in Florida. He flees after being recognised by a camp survivor and goes to ground. In Europe, a group of old Nazis try to stop Jack and Patrick finding the truth and exposing the real perpetrator. They send men to kill them and the missing sister they have discovered. They have not bargained on a man like Jack Riordan, and their attempts fail, However, their actions bring them to the notice of the Mossad that had been hunting them since the war's end. Will they save their friend, or will the real criminal be brought to Justice?

      Hans is an old soldier, a refugee from post-war Germany. Patrick Riordan befriends him and learns his story. When the old man is arrested and charged with war crimes in the camps of occupied Poland. Patrick and his father, Jack, set off for Europe to find Hans's missing sister, who can prove his identity. Meanwhile, the real criminal is living in Florida. He flees after being recognised by a camp survivor and goes to ground. In Europe, a group of old Nazis try to stop Jack and Patrick finding the truth and exposing the real perpetrator. They send men to kill them and the missing sister they have discovered. They have not bargained on a man like Jack Riordan, and their attempts fail, However, their actions bring them to the notice of the Mossad that had been hunting them since the war's end. Will they save their friend, or will the real criminal be brought to Justice?

    • 3

      Into the Dark Night, Falling: The Jack Riordan Stories, #3
      Into the Dark Night, Falling: The Jack Riordan Stories, #3

      Into the Dark Night, Falling: The Jack Riordan Stories, #3

      Patrick Ford
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      Occupied France is under the rule of the Nazis, but some will not accept this state of affairs. Dominique is one of these. She helps downed airmen escape to Spain, until she meets Jack Riordan, an Australian bomber pilot. They fall in love but are separated by the war. Dominique searches for Jack without success. More than forty years later, Dominique's daughter discovers what had happened to her father. Finally, she comesto Australia to meet her relatives, who do not know of her existence, and in the process finds a true love of her own.

      Occupied France is under the rule of the Nazis, but some will not accept this state of affairs. Dominique is one of these. She helps downed airmen escape to Spain, until she meets Jack Riordan, an Australian bomber pilot. They fall in love but are separated by the war. Dominique searches for Jack without success. More than forty years later, Dominique's daughter discovers what had happened to her father. Finally, she comesto Australia to meet her relatives, who do not know of her existence, and in the process finds a true love of her own.

    • 7

      Invisible: The Jack Riordan Stories, #7
      Invisible: The Jack Riordan Stories, #7

      Invisible: The Jack Riordan Stories, #7

      Patrick Ford
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      Patrick and Michael (Young Jack) Riordan go on a hiking trip in Europe with their girl friends. They stumble upon a lost cache of WW2 gold and set in motion a chase across Germany, where they uncover a blackmail attempt on the USA by a former Stasi General. Pursued by a former SS sergeant and his gang of hitmen and crooks, they manage to escape capture more than once. Finally, they upset the villian's plans to extort the US with a secret electronic device that renders conventional ships and aircraft invisible to all means of electronic surveillance. Afast paced story of heros and villians.

      Patrick and Michael (Young Jack) Riordan go on a hiking trip in Europe with their girl friends. They stumble upon a lost cache of WW2 gold and set in motion a chase across Germany, where they uncover a blackmail attempt on the USA by a former Stasi General. Pursued by a former SS sergeant and his gang of hitmen and crooks, they manage to escape capture more than once. Finally, they upset the villian's plans to extort the US with a secret electronic device that renders conventional ships and aircraft invisible to all means of electronic surveillance. Afast paced story of heros and villians.

    • 8

      Flesh: The Jack Riordan Stories, #8
      Flesh: The Jack Riordan Stories, #8

      Flesh: The Jack Riordan Stories, #8

      Patrick Ford
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      #8 in the Jack Riordan series. Young Jack and Elsbeth find themselves involved in a nightmare web of sex trafficking and corruption in Croatia. Adventure plus!

      #8 in the Jack Riordan series. Young Jack and Elsbeth find themselves involved in a nightmare web of sex trafficking and corruption in Croatia. Adventure plus!

    • The House that Jack Built: The Jack Riordan Stories
      The House that Jack Built: The Jack Riordan Stories

      The House that Jack Built: The Jack Riordan Stories

      Patrick Ford
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      The continueing story of Jack and Susan Riordan as they raise a family and consolidate their farming business against a backdrop of terrorist threats , drought and collapsing markets.

      The continueing story of Jack and Susan Riordan as they raise a family and consolidate their farming business against a backdrop of terrorist threats , drought and collapsing markets.

    Author

    Patrick Ford

    Patrick has had an interesting life – student, soldier, farmer, accountant, teacher. He is widely travelled and loves history. His wide experiences have given him deep well of knowledge from which to draw inspiration for his stories. He writes from his home in rural Queensland and produces what Aussies call “a bloody good yarn”.

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