Books with author Mr Michael Smorenburg

You've discovered corroding iron cannons that mark an uncharted shipwreck. Lengths of chain that seem to be stirrups crumble to your touch. Amid them, a mysterious carving resists extraction.A book in two parts - now, and then.In 1985 two divers discovered an ancient uncharted shipwreck off the infamous Cape of Storms. Salvaged artifacts only inflame the enigma. Countless vessels, some crammed with bullion, have joined this ship graveyard over the centuries, and this could be one of them. But what sort of galleon was this trader in chains?Three decades pass before the Smithsonian of Washington solves the riddle.It's 1794 on the fever-coast of Mozambique the São José de Africa is loading cargo.Fate is about to change the destiny for generations of men and women who step aboard. It is about to test the mettle and character of a husband, desperate to save his wife from unspeakable misery.If you're a Wilbur Smith or Clive Cussler fan, you will be riveted by this fact-inspired fictionalized tale by Michael Smorenburg. The Praying Nun is based on personal experience, extensive research, and the legacy of artifacts salvaged from the

A secret NASA experiment gone wrong, the chaos that erupts, and one reporter seeking the truth who chases leads where she shouldn't.On a flight from Paris to Los Angeles Tegan Mulholland is intrigued & charmed by Pete, the mysterious stranger sitting beside her. But when their plane almost falls from the sky and other jets in her vicinity wink from the radar, the official explanations that follow reek to Tegan's retired investigative journalist mind of cover up.What is not declared:A secret NASA experiment has warped a column of time instead of space, plucking with it the planes out of our era, and a band of Norse warriors from the Vinland colony millennia ago into our epoch.Rowing eastward and back to Iceland, the contrail of Tegan's plane appearing after the strange aurora and moving westward high above, the Norsemen conclude are Odin's order to return to Vinland and unknowingly toward the modern day Canadian coast, where, just days--yet a thousand years before--the skraeling Indians had driven them out.As news reports flood Tegan's living room of bloodshed and massacre, speculating about which gang of roughly dressed bearded marauders are responsible for mass-murder around the quiet Canadian coast, Tegan develops a hunch that there is more to the story than it seems. She quits her Hollywood Exec job and embarks on an odyssey that leads inexorably ever closer toward the Norsemen's hidden lair.Only Pete, the Lockheed consultant she had steadily fallen in love with during the harrowing flight and since, has any hope of saving her.If you enjoy intrigue, conspiracy and romantic suspense, Ragnarok will grip your imagination and not let go.

You've gambled everything on the business-break of a lifetime. With no going back, the true cost of doing business emerges. The price is your soul.This is Catherine's dilemma. Six months ago, her Ad agency won a dream contract; to service trillion-dollar LifeGames Corporation.To tool up, she's hired mortgaged everything and is swimming in debt.Pressured into dinner with Ken, the founder, everything comes to a head; the underpinnings of what they're really doing and the true cost of doing business is plonked on the table. What she learns, she cannot un-learn. Her dream is about to become a nightmare.

A story in 2 parts, 'now' and 'then’ — come along on a gripping saga of adventure, intrigue and discovery of a shipwreck that has no identity; until 30 years pass and the Smithsonian fills in the missing pieces — then leap back two centuries to witness a tale of disturbing brutality and exhilerating human courage… The Praying Nun will leave you shocked to the core and pondering human nature in all its forms. Part I - A True Story of Discovery and Excavation, 1985 In 1985 an uncharted shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Two divers, the author and his friend, salvage artefacts from the ocean floor and try to identify the ship’s identity and cargo. In 2015 the mystery was finally solved by the Smithsonian Museum of Washington. The ship was the São José de Africa, a slaver that ran aground in 1794 with 400 slaves aboard, half lost on that day, the other half salvaged and sold the next day to defray costs. At this time, the recovered artefacts reside in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the US, in 2027 they will be returned to the Iziko museum in Cape Town. Part II – A Love Story of Terror and Tragedy, 1794 Naked and shackled, Chikunda, and his new wife Mkiwa are heaved aboard the slaver São José off the coast of Mozambique, bound for the slave markets of Brazil. Once below decks, down in the stinking holds with 400 other captives, Chikunda instinctively knows that it will all be over. When the Captain discovers that Chikunda and his wife are Christians, the couple are spared a horrific fate below decks, but this reprieve does not protect them from what fate has in store. The story of Chikunda and Mkiwa, though fictional, is based on the best known facts about the ship and the slave trade in general as contained in records, news reports, and journals available at the maratime archives, through accounts reported by the Captain, crew and from others who witnessed the disaster and its aftermath.

Former investigative journalist, Tegan Mulholland, now a Hollywood Exec, is flying Paris to Los Angeles. Seated beside her is Pete, a charming stranger with a persistent intention to distract Tegan from her work. As the plane approaches Canada’s east coast, a top secret NASA experiment rips a hole in space-time, and through that portal sail a band of the most feared warriors in history. The seismic events and recriminations that follow will change Tegan's life and make Pete invaluable to her.

LifeGames Corporation will immerse you into a storm of unscrupulous business shenanigans, emotional manipulation, rising paranormal terror and a view into a world of unfathomable capacity and unknown motives. Catherine Kaplan owns the ad agency that has just landed a contract with LifeGames Corporation, a company that dominates high technology and much more. LifeGames operates Immersive Virtual Reality simulation systems that are run by Artificial Intelligence. Each candidate begins their simulation with an automated hypnosis sequence that makes them believe that the simulation is reality. Governments, militaries and businesses have become so reliant on LifeGames to train their executives that the company is said to control the very future of mankind. The training technique has been fabulously profitable and Kenneth Torrington, founder and CEO of LifeGames, has become wealthy beyond imagining and powerful beyond grasp. But something sinister lies deep and hidden within the system that Torrington has built, something even beyond his imagining. When Torrington makes his play to levy the real price for granting Catherine her lucrative contract, they are plunged into a new realm of mutual destruction that threatens to pull everything down with it.