Nicolas Travers

 

   Welcome. This site offers six full length novels and a clutch of short stories written over the past three years – I used to be a financial journalist, but you will find more thrills here of various kinds than tips: I was a journalist to make my living, I write for pleasure.

   The six novels are titled Vast, Hunter, Freelance, Arrogance, The Corporate Executioner, and Wild Iris, in the order that I wrote them. Vast is the story of a man locked into a less than happy life who suddenly finds an escape through sexual fantasy and success. But his escape proves his downfall. I hope it gives you pleasure in the reading, I hope it gives you cause for thought.

   Hunter is about a financial journalist on a crusade. He wants to help expose a political plot by right wing forces to take power in Britain, but his employer has other targets. Hunter sees his crusade torpedoed, and his pockets filled with cash as compensation. But cash cannot replace self-esteem.

   Freelance is an adventure. A journalist flies to Berlin on a press trip, only to find himself entangled in international power politics that drive him back to Britain, on to New York, and down to the Bahamas in a series of fast-moving (and sometimes life-threatening) escapades.

   Arrogance is a tale of how evil sows the seeds of its own defeat and destruction. A man who has left his wife in England to live with a beautiful and wealthy Frenchwoman returns to Britain when he learns that his wife’s new partner has been arrested on the basis of fabricated evidence. He uncovers the truth and trounces arrogant bureaucracy.

   The Corporate Executioner centres on Harry Chapman, a wealthy and successful accountant. Harry helps out at a church hall fete, and a teenage girl picks him as a sugar daddy. Harry moves her into his London flat. He masterminds a takeover bid, but his target’s chairman tries to organise his murder. But fortunately a second girl saves him, and he meets a woman to fill his dreams.

   Wild Iris is both here, and in a site of her own, because I owe the original idea and much of the groundwork to Helen Chapman in America. The novel tells of a girl brought up in cruelty and poverty in turn of the century Tennessee, who is first traded for moonshine whisky, but then meets a good man and finds her way to happiness.

   The short stories are titled Blind Date, Charity, Chintz,  Daniel, Harrying Harry, Patricia, Peter, Punctuality, Sam, Seduction, Terror, and The Prisoners. I am also working on a series of stories about a malefactor named Nathaniel, and you can read these as follows (more are on the way):

   Nathaniel dines out, Nathaniel and the pop star,  Nathaniel goes fishing,  Nathaniel's split personality, Nathaniel and the majorettes, Nathaniel in show biz, Nathaniel glitters, Nathaniel tries spying, Nathaniel on the game, Nathaniel visits Japan, Nathaniel raves, Nathaniel's sting, Nathaniel's aristo badlad, Nathaniel is compromised, Nathaniel in judgment

   The Prisoners and Peter deal with man’s inhumanity towards fellow men, Sam, Charity, the Nathaniel stories, Seduction and Terror with differing aspects of sexual temptation and revenge. Punctuality and Blind Dates are tales of foolishness. Patricia is a girl who tries to make good on the streets of LA.

   Each novel has 24 chapters, and these are set out as links below, with each chapter linking back to a previous chapter and on to the next:

 

Arrogance 1 Arrogance 2 Arrogance 3 Arrogance 4 Arrogance 5 Arrogance 6 Arrogance 7

Arrogance 8 Arrogance 9 Arrogance 10 Arrogance 11 Arrogance 12 Arrogance 13 Arrogance 14 Arrogance 15 Arrogance 16 Arrogance 17 Arrogance 18 Arrogance 19 Arrogance 20 Arrogance 21 Arrogance 22 Arrogance 23 Arrogance 24

 

Freelance 1 Freelance 2 Freelance 3 Freelance 4 Freelance 5 Freelance 6 Freelance 7 Freelance 8 Freelance 9 Freelance 10 Freelance 11 Freelance 12 Freelance 13 Freelance 14 Freelance 15 Freelance 16 Freelance 17 Freelance 18 Freelance 19 Freelance 20

Freelance 21 Freelance 22 Freelance 23 Freelance 24

 

Hunter 1 Hunter 2 Hunter 3 Hunter 4 Hunter 5 Hunter 6 Hunter 7 Hunter 8 Hunter 9

Hunter 10 Hunter 11 Hunter 12 Hunter 13 Hunter 14 Hunter 15 Hunter 16 Hunter 17

Hunter 18 Hunter 19 Hunter 20 Hunter 21 Hunter 22 Hunter 23 Hunter 24

 

TCE 1 TCE 2 TCE 3 TCE 4 TCE 5 TCE 6 TCE 7 TCE 8 TCE 9 TCE 10 TCE 11 TCE 12 TCE 13 TCE 14 TCE 15 TCE 16 TCE 17 TCE 18 TCE 19 TCE 20 TCE 21 TCE 22

TCE 23 TCE 24

 

Vast 1 Vast 2 Vast 3 Vast 4 Vast 5 Vast 6 Vast 7 Vast 8 Vast 9 Vast 10 Vast 11 Vast 12

Vast 13 Vast 14 Vast 15 Vast 16 Vast 17 Vast 18 Vast 19 Vast 20 Vast 21 Vast 22 Vast 23 Vast 24

 

Wild Iris 1 Wild Iris 2 Wild Iris 3 Wild Iris 4 Wild Iris 5 Wild Iris 6 Wild Iris 7 Wild Iris 8 Wild Iris 9 Wild Iris 10 Wild Iris 11 Wild Iris 12 Wild Iris 13 Wild Iris 14 Wild Iris 15

Wild Iris 16 Wild Iris 17 Wild Iris 18 Wild Iris 19 Wild Iris 20 Wild Iris 21 Wild Iris 22

 

   In addition I have written a series of 20 tales about a group of kittens called the Mighty Mousers, who get together in a rather shaky sort of way, but then set out to do good deeds, and you can read these as follows: The Mighty Mousers, Timothy, Russell, Tabitha,

The Kittenmaster, Fluffy, The Invader Bunnies, Jemima Pussykins, Merlin, Oliver, Rudi, Poppy, Max Mole, Pike, Edward Tortoise, The Magpies, The Squirrel Cup,

Old Mother Growler, The picnic, Louise

 

   You may additionally be curious to know what kind of man I am. I have led a chequered life as a journalist in Britain and, briefly in South Africa. I have travelled the world. Now I have a little business selling recorded music on the Net, and I travel frequently to Belgium and France from my home just west of London to buy antiques and to stock up on food and wine. I also visit a lot of markets to look for coins – I now have a collection of more than 4,700. Other interests include writing poetry and cooking – I pride myself on my marinaded chicken (but it can be very spicey at times).

   Finally a disclaimer. None of the characters in anything I have written bears – or is intended to bear - any resemblance to a living person.

   Please also visit Helen Chapman. Helen is a rather bloodthirsty paralegal from Tennessee, but she has written a first-class murder thriller called 'Neutral Zone' set in the Deep South of the US, plus a sci-fi novel, a clutch of short stories set in legal surroundings and some tales for small children, as well as first thinking of Wild Iris, and providing much research and many helpful suggestions. I have dedicated some poems to her, and also written some other poems as well.