Simon Leighton-Porter
BOOKS by SIMON LEIGHTON-PORTER
Simon's passion for history, languages and archaeology came together to create Flora Kemble, Oxford University palaeographer and heroine of his first novel, The Seven Stars, a thriller that weaves a tale of deception and murder stretching from ancient Rome to the present day.
Simon's subsequent books are filled with mystery and intrigue, the most recent being Bomber Boys, a gripping ghost story.
Simon's subsequent books are filled with mystery and intrigue, the most recent being Bomber Boys, a gripping ghost story.
THE SEVEN STARS
A serial killer stalks the first-century Roman Empire: his victims, followers of the man they call The Christ. In 21st century Britain, former MI6 agent turned Oxford academic, Flora Kemble is invited to help at an archaeological dig in Pompeii. She stumbles onto a secret that could shake Western civilization to its roots. What follows show she's not the only one with an interest. The hunter becomes the hunted and very soon Flora is running for her life as a two thousand year-old conspiracy spreads its deadly tentacles into the modern age, unleashing a trail of deceit, violence and death reaching to the very soul of the American nation. The greatest deception of all time is about to be unmasked...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Stars-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B0096QIWCC
A serial killer stalks the first-century Roman Empire: his victims, followers of the man they call The Christ. In 21st century Britain, former MI6 agent turned Oxford academic, Flora Kemble is invited to help at an archaeological dig in Pompeii. She stumbles onto a secret that could shake Western civilization to its roots. What follows show she's not the only one with an interest. The hunter becomes the hunted and very soon Flora is running for her life as a two thousand year-old conspiracy spreads its deadly tentacles into the modern age, unleashing a trail of deceit, violence and death reaching to the very soul of the American nation. The greatest deception of all time is about to be unmasked...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Stars-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B0096QIWCC
THE MINERVA SYSTEM
Part one of the Death to Bankers series. Tom Mansell, City trader turned IT developer, has created Minerva, a world-leading electronic trading system. Its success attracts the wrong kind of attention and Mansell finds himself caught up in a battle for ownership, pitting an American Investment Bank against the sovereign wealth authority of the republic of Nashyastan, owner of the world's largest non-OPEC oil reserves and the West's new best friend in the darker side of The War Against Terror. Neither has a single scruple between them. As the bitter struggle intensifies, the stakes are raised and coercion gives way to violence. Betrayed by those he trusts to protect him, Mansell faces a race against time to save all he holds dear from destruction. In the City, no one cares if you scream...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Minerva-System-Death-Bankers-Book-ebook/dp/B00DO0KEXG
DEATH TO BANKERS
"Death to Bankers". Simple, brutal and horribly real – the three words that form the calling card of the gang murdering their way across the City of London.
Anarchists taking twisted revenge for the financial crisis or is their motive more complex? Will Stratton, City trader, is caught up in a fatal vortex of corruption, violence and terror. The clock is counting down the seconds of his life and time is running out…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Bankers-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00H0EIZCE
"Death to Bankers". Simple, brutal and horribly real – the three words that form the calling card of the gang murdering their way across the City of London.
Anarchists taking twisted revenge for the financial crisis or is their motive more complex? Will Stratton, City trader, is caught up in a fatal vortex of corruption, violence and terror. The clock is counting down the seconds of his life and time is running out…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Bankers-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00H0EIZCE
THE MANHATTAN DECEPTION
Strike a deal with the Devil or send one million men to their deaths? This is the choice facing Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in March 1945. The Manhattan Project is behind schedule and will not produce the A-Bomb until 1947. Without it, the invasion of mainland Japan will become a bloody reality. Two German scientists, the only men whose knowledge can deliver the doomsday weapon, are in Berlin and about to fall into the hands of the advancing Soviet armies. In their desperation, the Allied leaders agree to pay a terrible price. Their Faustian pact returns from the ashes to haunt the career of present-day US Presidential candidate, Eric Pauli. Someone, maybe Pauli himself, knows the awful truth and is willing to kill in order to ensure it never sees the light of day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manhattan-Deception-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00BU62C9A
Strike a deal with the Devil or send one million men to their deaths? This is the choice facing Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in March 1945. The Manhattan Project is behind schedule and will not produce the A-Bomb until 1947. Without it, the invasion of mainland Japan will become a bloody reality. Two German scientists, the only men whose knowledge can deliver the doomsday weapon, are in Berlin and about to fall into the hands of the advancing Soviet armies. In their desperation, the Allied leaders agree to pay a terrible price. Their Faustian pact returns from the ashes to haunt the career of present-day US Presidential candidate, Eric Pauli. Someone, maybe Pauli himself, knows the awful truth and is willing to kill in order to ensure it never sees the light of day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manhattan-Deception-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00BU62C9A
BOMBER BOYS
Bill Price, journalist and former RAF officer suffers
devastating head injuries in a car crash, causing him to experience vivid hallucinations. So when he sees signal flares and shadowy figures while out walking on the disused airfield at Leckonby in Lincolnshire, he believes them to be a product of his own mind.
The airfield is to be developed for housing, but work is disrupted by what appears to be paranormal activity. Ghostly airmen are seen and lights appear in the ruined control tower.
Bill investigates the story for his newspaper and despite his logic telling him that such things cannot happen, events take a nightmarish turn when he finds himself caught up in the life of a Bomber Command squadron in 1944.
In a cruel twist of fate, he realises that not only is the past haunting him, but he is haunting the past, and so begins his desperate struggle to return to the safety of the present day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Boys-Ghost-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00X1AQ8TI
The airfield is to be developed for housing, but work is disrupted by what appears to be paranormal activity. Ghostly airmen are seen and lights appear in the ruined control tower.
Bill investigates the story for his newspaper and despite his logic telling him that such things cannot happen, events take a nightmarish turn when he finds himself caught up in the life of a Bomber Command squadron in 1944.
In a cruel twist of fate, he realises that not only is the past haunting him, but he is haunting the past, and so begins his desperate struggle to return to the safety of the present day.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Boys-Ghost-Simon-Leighton-Porter-ebook/dp/B00X1AQ8TI
A cracking story from a talented writer - Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2015
As a writer of Bomber Command ghost stories myself ('Return Trip' and 'War Crime') I was delighted to find an example of this scarce genre by another author. Simon Leigh-Porter's background in the RAF shines through in the historical detail contained in the story. Not only does he know his stuff as an aviation writer but he has also, it would appear, done his homework on the many reported apparitions in and around the airfields of Bomber Command. It is a stroke of inspiration to bring together reports of ghostly airmen, strange lights, 40s music and lone bombers with the thread of a strong story line. The result, for readers of paranormal tales, is a spine-chilling tale that has the potential to be a classic.
It is great to discover a like-minded author, especially one with so much talent.
