Books with author Chris Hawley

Unconventional warfare provides an indirect means to harass, undermine, and overthrow regimes through the use of surrogates. Recent examples in the Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, and Libya have changed the way we view this age old form of conflict.Global instantaneous communications, social media, and the application of precision munitions from conventional forces have radically altered our understanding of proxy warfare. The sustainment provided by external non-state actors has made these already chaotic conflicts even more so. Unconventional Warfare 2.0 describes how demographic trends, rapid technological changes, and an adaptive enemy will drive new and innovative UW approaches.3rd Edition - Updated with Case Study on UW in SyriaUW 2.0 has served as mandatory reading for soldiers at U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, and at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Security Studies masters program.

Bill Steadman and his friends may still be average teenagers, but now the grave responsibility of saving Planet Earth has landed squarely on their young shoulders.Operation Stargazer is the sequel to Secret of the Red Planet, and the second book in The Mars Series. It tells how Bill and Sonia, together with their friends, Ben and Tim, involve themselves in the battle to save Mars from Zigismo, the evil dictator of Zeronera, who is intent on enslaving the inhabitants of the Red Planet. And other challenges await them. The Zoggs, a race of strange beings from another solar system, aim to use Zigismo to conquer Mars and use it as a springboard to attack our own beautiful planet. And the ultimate adversity; a huge, dark and dreadful asteroid is reported to be on a collision course with the Earth. It is a race against time for Hermann Winke and the Russian scientists to perfect the technology, the only technology that is capable of dealing with the monster that threatens to blow the Earth to pieces.

Hermann Winke, the brilliant inventor of the Magnobile is dead, and the manner of his death is shrouded in mystery. In his will, he leaves his valuable papers to his only son, Ernst, who has just returned from years in the Amazon jungle. At Hermann’s funeral in London, Bill, Sonia, Ben and Tim meet the mysterious Ernst.Having helped the Martian people defeat Zigismo, the evil dictator of Zeronera, and having saved the world from annihilation by the massive asteroid, appropriately named Attila, Bill and his friends have been asked by Zeris, the Chief Elder of Similaria, to undertake a dangerous mission that involves travelling back in time, a mission that no Martian would dare to even contemplate. But things don’t go according to plan. An act of betrayal and a chapter of accidents befall the party, causing deep rifts in their togetherness, and casting doubt on their ability to return to the 21st Century. Would they be doomed to live out their lives in prehistory? It would seem so, but aid comes from an unexpected and scarcely believable source.Born and brought up in the UK, Chris took his young family to work in Nairobi, Kenya and later operated tourist hotels in Lamu on the Kenya coast. He also founded a charitable trust for destitute children and worked with Kenyan teachers to promote human values.In his spare time Chris has been a water colour artist, poet, short story writer and finally a novelist. Chris is married with three grownup children, four grandchildren and several adopted African children. He now lives in Shella Village on the island of Lamu.'Secret of the Red Planet is really interesting. You don't know what is coming next, so you want to read more and more. It gets more exciting as the book goes on. I can't wait for the second one.' Gianluca Albano Silva, aged 10 years.

Bill Steadman’s NGO, Youth for the World is gaining such fame that United Nations Environment Programme invites him to address a conference on Climate Change. The reaction to his speech is mixed, praise from developing countries but damnation from the powerful nations. Bill is obliged to watch his back, lest he be eliminated. The Russians have the Super Magnobile and want to get hold of bubble technology for their planned colonisation of Mars. And the Zoggs are watching for the right moment to take over the Earth, using their mysterious secret weapon, and subjecting the remnants of the human race to eternal slavery.In Land of the Pharaohs Bill meets two men with associations with ancient Egypt. With them and his close friends he bubbles back to Egypt to the year 2578 BC, a time when the Pharaoh Khufu is building the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only Seventh Wonder of the World still standing. They experience firsthand with amazement that advanced culture and unlock the secret of how the Great Pyramid was built, a topic hotly contested by Egyptologists. Standing close by is the magnificent Sphinx, the largest monolith ever built. But it does not appear as they expect. Other surprises await them. Ben goes astray again, as he did in The Lost World, and a terrible fate awaits one of them, which threatens to cut short the ancient Egyptian adventure.

After weeks of hair-raising experiences in the Amazon jungle, as narrated in The Quest of Captain Ernst, Bill and his five friends sail down the mighty river on the raft that Ernst and members of an African boat-building tribe had constructed, and which had brought them across the wild Atlantic Ocean in a vain search for a lost civilisation.The year is 11,995 BC, the year before the ancestors of Bill’s Martian friends escape the death sentence imposed upon them by the cruel and decadent rulers of their homeland, and survive to found a colony on the Red Planet. Bill had been entrusted by Zeris, the Chief Elder of Similaria with the task of bringing back to 21st Century Mars details of the history and cultural heritage of their Earthly ancestors that had been lost. The Lost World tells how he and his friends find the scientifically advanced society and become perilously involved in its politics, and how one of the party gets entangled in a potentially dangerous relationship. And it transpires that the valuable records they obtain cannot withstand rapid time travel. Read how the six intrepid time-travellers and seasoned space explorers strive to overcome a succession of life-threatening challenges, with some help from the Andromedans, who are never far away.

Bill Steadman is just an average teenager with dreams of interplanetary adventure.Then one day those dreams explode into reality as he is whisked off to Mars, where he is welcomed by a race of humans who have developed a unique and peaceful way of life. He is shown the wonders of The Red Planet and learns their deepest secrets, some terrible secrets that might just mean the end of their existence and perhaps even mankind’s existence on Planet Earth.When he returns to Earth with the help of his new Martian friends, he finds himself the victim of greed and betrayal. He also has to face the American secret service, who want him silenced – permanently, and the Russians, who want his secrets to achieve their cosmic ambitions. Will his Martian friends tune in to his pleas and arrive in time to save him?Secret of the Red Planet, races along with the imagination of Harry Potter and the high spirits of Escape to Witch Mountain. This is a series which will delight the younger reader in your life and the one in you.Secret of The Red Planet is the first book in The Mars Series.

Bill Steadman is just an average teenager with dreams of interplanetary adventure. Then one day those dreams explode into reality as he is whisked off to Mars, where he is welcomed by a race of humans who have developed a unique and peaceful way of life. He is shown the wonders of The Red Planet and learns their deepest secrets, some terrible secrets that might just mean the end of their existence and perhaps even mankind's existence on Planet Earth. When he returns to Earth with the help of his new Martian friends, he finds himself the victim of greed and betrayal. He also has to face the American secret service, who want him silenced - permanently, and the Russians, who want his secrets to achieve their cosmic ambitions. Will his Martian friends tune in to his pleas and arrive in time to save him? Secret of the Red Planet, races along with the imagination of Harry Potter and the high spirits of Escape to Witch Mountain. This is a series which will delight the younger reader in your life and the one in you. Secret of The Red Planet is the first book in The Mars Series.

Bill Steadman and his friends may still be average teenagers, but now the grave responsibility of saving Planet Earth has landed squarely on their young shoulders. Operation Stargazer is the sequel to Secret of the Red Planet, and the second book in The Mars Series. It tells how Bill and Sonia, together with their friends, Ben and Tim, involve themselves in the battle to save Mars from Zigismo, the evil dictator of Zeronera, who is intent on enslaving the inhabitants of the Red Planet. And other challenges await them. The Zoggs, a race of strange beings from another solar system, aim to use Zigismo to conquer Mars and use it as a springboard to attack our own beautiful planet. And the ultimate adversity; a huge, dark and dreadful asteroid is reported to be on a collision course with the Earth. It is a race against time for Hermann Winke and the Russian scientists to perfect the technology, the only technology that is capable of dealing with the monster that threatens to blow the Earth to pieces.

A quiet morning in the town of Havenbrook, sleepy workers dragging themselves out of bed on another glorious sunny day, everything is calm and sedate in the town, but all is not as it seems. Up above in the mountain river, something is stirring. Ellie and Rob, two rafting instructors are about to find out just what. Reader prepare to join them on the ride of your life!Danger Falls is an adrenaline filled adventure 'novella' for 7 - 13 year olds by author Chris Handley and marks his debut into the genre, it is the first in a series of books aimed at this age range. The series aims to capture the childhood magic of the 'Goosebumps' series which captivated the author throughout his school years and many lonely nights at boarding school hiding under the duvet with a torch. Ideal for reading together with your child or on their own the book contains situations of mild peril and whilst written in an easily understandable format aims to introduce new words to expand your child's vocabulary.

Secret of the Red Planet began as a short story and ended up a full length novel. The sequel, Operation Stargazer turned it into the first book in The Mars Series. The book you are about to read, The Quest of Captain Ernst is the third in the series... but not the last. Bill and his friends are destined to be involved in more exciting and dangerous adventures. Hermann Winke, the brilliant inventor of the Magnobile is dead, and the manner of his death is shrouded in mystery. In his will, he leaves his valuable papers to his only son, Ernst, who has just returned from years in the Amazon jungle. At Hermann's funeral in London, Bill, Sonia, Ben and Tim meet the mysterious Ernst. Having helped the Martian people defeat Zigismo, the evil dictator of Zeronera, and having saved the world from annihilation by the massive asteroid, appropriately named Attila, Bill and his friends have been asked by Zeris, the Chief Elder of Similaria, to undertake a dangerous mission that involves travelling back in time, a mission that no Martian would dare to even contemplate. But things don't go according to plan. An act of betrayal and a chapter of accidents befall the party, causing deep rifts in their togetherness, and casting doubt on their ability to return to the 21st Century. Would they be doomed to live out their lives in prehistory? It would seem so, but aid comes from an unexpected and scarcely believable source. Born and brought up in the UK, Chris took his young family to work in Nairobi, Kenya and later operated tourist hotels in Lamu on the Kenya coast. He also founded a charitable trust for destitute children and worked with Kenyan teachers to promote human values. In his spare time Chris has been a water colour artist, poet, short story writer and finally a novelist. Chris is married with three grownup children, four grandchildren and several adopted African children. He now lives in Shella Village on the island of Lamu. REVIEW - 'Secret of the Red Planet is really interesting. You don't know what is coming next, so you want to read more and more. It gets more exciting as the book goes on. I can't wait for the second one.' Gianluca Albano Silva, aged 10 years.

Bill Steadman's NGO, Youth for the World is gaining such fame that United Nations Environment Programme invites him to address a conference on Climate Change. The reaction to his speech is mixed, praise from developing countries but damnation from the powerful nations. Bill is obliged to watch his back, lest he be eliminated. The Russians have the Super Magnobile and want to get hold of bubble technology for their planned colonisation of Mars. And the Zoggs are watching for the right moment to take over the Earth, using their mysterious secret weapon, and subjecting the remnants of the human race to eternal slavery. In Land of the Pharaohs Bill meets two men with associations with ancient Egypt. With them and his close friends he bubbles back to Egypt to the year 2578 BC, a time when the Pharaoh Khufu is building the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only Seventh Wonder of the World still standing. They experience firsthand with amazement that advanced culture and unlock the secret of how the Great Pyramid was built, a topic hotly contested by Egyptologists. Standing close by is the magnificent Sphinx, the largest monolith ever built. But it does not appear as they expect. Other surprises await them. Ben goes astray again, as he did in The Lost World, and a terrible fate awaits one of them, which threatens to cut short the ancient Egyptian adventure. Chris is a long-term resident of Kenya. An accountant by profession he has expressed his creative talents through water colour painting, poetry and novel writing. He has also operated tourist hotels, worked with destitute children and helped train teachers to promote human values. Widowed in 2013 he has married again. He has three grownup children and four teenage grandchildren. He shares his time between Lamu and Nairobi.