Walter Ellis ist ein Autor, dessen Werke sich oft mit komplexen Handlungssträngen und aufschlussreichen Erkundungen der menschlichen Natur befassen. Sein Schreiben ist bekannt für seine akribischen Details und die Fähigkeit, den Leser in sorgfältig konstruierte Welten einzutauchen. Ellis untersucht Themen wie Verschwörung und verborgene Motive mit scharfer Intelligenz. Sein literarischer Stil bietet eine ausgeprägte Mischung aus Spannung und tiefgründiger Beobachtung.
Caravaggio was the greatest artist since Titian, a favourite of Popes and wealthy bankers. But at a time when the resurgent Ottoman Empire was planning a second wave of conquest, he discovered a secret so dark that it threatened the very existence of the Catholic Church. The secret endures.
Madrid: 1940. The Spanish Civil War has been over less than a year. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, “answerable only to God and history,” is consolidating his power and meting out “justice” to his enemies. But with World War II raging, the Caudillo is presented with a fresh temptation: join the Axis powers and drive the British from their stronghold in Gibraltar – the key to the Mediterranean.MI6 sends a spy to assess the crisis. Charles Bramall, a young Army officer, whose ancestral home in Ireland was burned down by the IRA is appointed aide-de-camp to the exiled Prince of Wales, with entrée to the highest echelons of Spanish society. But with Germany pressing Franco to allow the Wehrmacht to enter Spain, time is running out. Bramall enlists help from two unlikely sources. Isabella Ortega is the beautiful, wilful daughter of a top Spanish official. She says she loathes Hitler and despises Franco. But she is also a proud patriot. Eddy Romero is a maverick, half-Spanish Dubliner who fought in the International Brigades but as an ex-IRA man burns with a hatred of the British Empire. Can Bramall trust either of them? The unlikely trio, natural enemies, face impossible odds. Can they overcome their backgrounds, including the legacy of a terrible murder, to stop Gibraltar falling to the Nazis and keep Britain in the fight?
A Jazz Fiction Inspired by the Music of Miles Davis
Inspired by the music of Miles Davis, this first,novel has as its central character a jazz,trumpeter (not unlike Miles Davis) who looks back,on his life with regret. Having sacrificed the,loves of his life to music he now finds it,difficult to come to terms with the choices he's,made. A compelling tale of the tragedy of love.