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
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.