Books with author Charles Bryce

The 'HolyPhone' is a smartphone placed in Catholic Church confessionals. These HolyPhones connect those seeking confession to the Vatican Confessional Call Centre, part of a major Church initiative to reduce the workload of priests and generate new income. That initiative has become an attractive criminal target.An alliance - of Inma (a female Spanish member of Opus Dei), Miriam (an American who funds her father's fundamentalist church), Noach (an Israeli pro-Settler technology genius) and Michele (an ex-banker-turned- priest, and past lover of Miriam) - conspire to cream-off their slice of the HolyPhone's confessional revenues Cardinal da Ferraz owns the responsibility for the HolyPhone’s success, or failure; he suspects the Church is being ripped offthe Cardinal locates Davide, the HolyPhone's originator, who brings in Conor (an Irish Interpol policeman) and Caterina (Conor's Australian computer crime colleague)their objective - to uncover any problem. They must succeed. The Church must not suffer. More than the its finances are at stake. [This is the first in Charles Brett's The Corruption Series of novels.]

Niall must leave his home and family behind after the murder of his father and travel to Ireland to find his grandfather King Mael Seachlinn and King Brian Boru. He becomes involved in the battle for Ireland being waged at that time between the pagan Norse and the Christian Irish, and feels loyaties in each camp. His story culminates in the Battle at Clontarf, a decisive Irish victory. A story full of valor and forgiveness, poetry and swordsmanship.

The legend of Robin Hood has been told many times. Now you can hear it from one who was there and can tell you the truth of it! Shamus O'Douilhe, a little man of Ireland, has been most everywhere and every when in the last five thousand years, and he likes to tell the truth of it in his own way! The drawings resemble the folks who play the parts in Sherwood Forest Faire, but never mind, for that is the fault of the author and illustrator C. R. Bryan. Shamus allows a few liberties from his amanuensis on occasion.

Letters To Alice details the adventures of the youngest trail driver each day on the trail as he becomes a cowboy in 1871. His sister could not go, so Frank McKay draws and writes about his experiences with the herd and the cowboys as they go up the Chisholm Trial from Buda, Texas to Dodge City, Kansas. A real boy of eleven years did this, but he wrote only a few words about his experience in later years. C. R. Bryan has filled in the missing parts of the story from experience and historical records.

35% off - Christmas and New Year Promotion... Beneath the surface calm of a divided Cyprus, ambition, lust, betrayal, greed and corruption fester:Kjersti, Norwegian extreme runner and infamous investigative journalist, arrives in Cyprus to run the 350 kilometres across the island in a fortnight Aris and Iphi, two ambitious but junior local journalists, must report on every stage of Kjersti and her ex-boyfriend's run, not knowing the scandal they will uncoverEleni is the architect niece of the head of the local Orthodox Church. Archbishop Ioannis has her constructing an immense building to dominate Nicosia and make his memory immortal. But he must find money to ensure completion Evdokia, wife of a humble parish priest, hates the Archbishop; she sees his 'monument' as wasteful self-aggrandisement when its cost could alleviate social suffering. She plots the building's downfall. Stephane designs systems for Dmitriy, an Armenian-Russian, to deliver an elaborate illegal money-laundering scheme hidden within legal sports betting; terrified of prosecution he seeks an escape - and ends up working for, and pursued by, Eleni. Once multiple unknown connections unravel, no one can predict what such a toxic mix will reveal. [This is the fourth in the Corruption Series of novels. It is set in Cyprus, Spain and France]

Experience the violence and intrigue of prohibition-era gangsters in a fun, interactive way. Meet Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, The Purple Gang and Murder, Inc. in a format that helps you learn the history of that period. Be there at the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the killing of Bugsy Siegal and the trial of Al Capone.This is a quiz book that helps you interact with history in a way that is a fun and exciting way to learn.