“Taken back to Singapore’s beginnings” – P Thompson
“Intriguing historical jaunt through Germany to Norway and back” – Musto

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COFFIN CORNER

It's the dawn of a new decade: 1960. Archie, a young RAF pilot looking for pastures new, gets a job with an airline based in Singapore. His older colleagues are of the war-time generation, trained to complete the mission, almost regardless of cost. But it's now peacetime and the new mantra is maximum safety.

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Unfortunately, the tools of the aviation trade in the early 1960s were primitive by today's standards. Scarcely a week went by without the wreckage of an airliner appearing on the front pages. Archie's initial workplace was the Bristol Britannia, a sedate looking aircraft that hid some of the strangest designs ever to grace the skies. Add the constant threat of the tropical rainbelt and you have an environment that can hardly be described as friendly.

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This is a story of people who worked in the 'teenage years' of the airline industry: the pilots, engineers and cabin crew; the entrepreneur who got the airline off the ground; the ageing aviatrix, with progressive ideas, in charge of personnel. It's also a story of the struggle to rebuild Singapore after the ravages of war; and to navigate the thorny path from being a colony to independence.

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The action radiates from the airline's base at Singapore: to Calcutta, Karachi, Phuket, Darwin and Australian outback. Finally, Archie has to face a problem that still tests pilots 50 years on: Coffin Corner.

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"Rolf Richardson has written a high octane tale of adventure, love, excitement, exploration and danger which charges along at a rollicking pace!" - Matt

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THE LAST WEISS

In the final year of the Second World War, a Lancaster bomber is shot down over Nazi Germany. The tail gunner, a Norwegian named Per, is the only survivor. Tramping through Germany in a seemingly hopeless quest to avoid being sent to a POW camp, he happens to save the life of young Benni, the last son of a prominent family.

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Hailed as a hero, with Germany now desperate for labour, and his status uncertain, Per is put to work in the town's gasthof, where he quickly makes friends with the local people. Especially Siggy, Benni's mother.

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But in Nazi Germany death is never far away and soon Per's situation becomes precarious. When a top Nazi, Gauleiter Frunze, with his own mysterious agenda, offers Per a chance to return to Norway, he accepts. In spite of the extraordinary condition attached to this offer.

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Per's action thriller life resumes in Norway, amongst the top echelon of the occupying Nazis, who are desperately trying to salvage whatever they can in the last, losing days of the Second World War.

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As the Third Reich collapses in a welter of chaos and blood, Per finds both his personal life and that of his country heading towards a climax. An action thriller and historical romance with twists and turns that will keep you reading until the very last page, 'The Last Weiss' is a Second World War novel you will not want to miss.

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"Before reading this book I had an idea of life in wartime Germany but no idea of what was going on in Sweden and Norway. I like this easy to read history as it wends its way through a large cast of characters that you are not sure are heroes or villains." – Musto

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About the Author

After spending his life in the travel business, first for 25 years as an airline pilot before becoming a  travel photographer and a cruise lecturer, Rolf Richardson decided that the time had come to write about some of the hundred plus countries he has visited by using them as real settings for his fictional novels.

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All three of Rolf’s exciting stories include adventure with an element of romance.

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You can find details of his third novel, Bear Bugger Cruise here.

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"A superbly written book which I really enjoyed. Would recommend it to all and especially to anyone with an interest in aviation. The inclusion of some love and romance made it a wonderful read. - well done Rolf Richardson." – Amazon Customer