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The Lubeck Diversion Book 5 of the intense Coulter Confessions series finds British Agent Edwin Coulter recuperating in Cyprus following the traumatic end to his mission in Donegal. Coulter struggles to cope as he is subjected to an intense debriefing and rehabilitaion programme. Just as Coulter starts to dream of a life outside the service, events take a dramatic turn that forces him back into action against enemies old and new. The novel carries the reader effortlessly from heat of Cyprus to the great Hanseatic city of Lubeck before coming to a dramatic climax in the Mosel and Rhine valleys.
Hidcote maintains his sharp dialogue and intensely drawn characters. The Lubeck Diversion introduces a swathe of vivid new characters and expands several familar ones as the complex plot presents the hero with a deluge of new challenges.
Titles in the series (5)
- The Bowling Five: The Coulter Confessions, #1
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During the autumn of 1983 Phil Featherstonehaugh's humdrum existence as an analyst in the lower reaches of the Security Services was changed dramatically when he volunteered to oversee a Strathclyde Police investigation into an alleged IRA plot to assassinate the Prince of Wales. Initially skeptical Phil finds himself trapped in a web of lies and deceit as his new friends in Glasgow's Special Branch reveal their own agenda for the investigation which threatens secrets his own organisation would do almost anything to protect! Torn between following orders and helping to bring a suspected War Criminal to Justice Phil struggles through an intense investigation with multiple suspects which culminates in a terrifying explosion of violence which changes Phil's life forever. Along the way he encounters a swathe of complex characters all with their own agendas, from the tough Glasgow Special Branch Inspector Chic Gordon to the enigmatic undercover cop Melanie Kerr plus hardline Loyalist Rueben Snodgrass and Polish World War Two veteran Franz Zuck.
- The Gortin Paradox: The Coulter Confessions, #2
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Its Autumn 1984 and hapless British Security Services analyst Phil Featherstonehaugh finds himself transferred to County Tyrone with a new identity. Surrounded by enemies old and new Phil struggles to come to grips with his new existence as Edwin Coulter 'travelling salesman and undercover agent'. Phil experiences a rollercoaster introduction to life in Ulster that brings him to the brink of death yet introduces him to some of the kindest people he has ever met. In a scenario reminiscent of A Fistful of Dollars he finds himself torn between two warring factions in a small town and forced to fight with every atom of his being to survive.
- The Downings Awakening: The Coulter Confessions, #3
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The Downings Awakening is the third novel in JP Hidcote's The Coulter Confessions series which tracks the chequered career of British Security Services operative Edwin Coulter from the early 80's to the end of the 20th century. The Downings Awakening finds Coulter operating undercover in the Irish Republic in the dying weeks of 1984 with the Ulster Troubles at their height. It is a furiously paced tale of intrigue and betrayal which builds to a chilling climax as Coulter battles to stay alive under pressure from both friends and foes.
- The Donegal Conversion: The Coulter Confessions, #4
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The Donegal Conversion is the fourth volume of J P Hidcote's Coulter Confessions series. It maintains the fierce pace of The Downings Awakening as hapless British Security Services operative Edwin Coulter tries desperately to survive the fallout from his mission. Alone and friendless in a foreign land Coulter struggles to cope with the pressure as he is swamped by a tidal wave of problems and threats that culminate in a terrifying ordeal. This time it seems that Coulter's luck has well and truly run out. In the Coulter Confessions series Hidcote has assembled a tremendous cast of complex characters and in this latest out the realistic, snappy dialogue drives the story on through some remarkable twists and turns to a ferocious climax with a deadly outcome
- The Lubeck Diversion: The Coulter Confessions, #5
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The Lubeck Diversion Book 5 of the intense Coulter Confessions series finds British Agent Edwin Coulter recuperating in Cyprus following the traumatic end to his mission in Donegal. Coulter struggles to cope as he is subjected to an intense debriefing and rehabilitaion programme. Just as Coulter starts to dream of a life outside the service, events take a dramatic turn that forces him back into action against enemies old and new. The novel carries the reader effortlessly from heat of Cyprus to the great Hanseatic city of Lubeck before coming to a dramatic climax in the Mosel and Rhine valleys. Hidcote maintains his sharp dialogue and intensely drawn characters. The Lubeck Diversion introduces a swathe of vivid new characters and expands several familar ones as the complex plot presents the hero with a deluge of new challenges.
J P Hidcote
J P Hidcote is a British author who has had a varied working life starting in the construction industry before joining the British Government Civil Service and moving to Technology Project management in the international banking sector. Born in South Wales of Irish parentage and educated in Scotland and England he believes that he grew up with a unique insight into the complexities of national identity in the British Isles. Hidcote cites his experience of trials and tribulations project management in the public and private sectors as an invaluable resource for a novelist. The Lubeck Diversion is the fifth of a series of novels based around the career of Edwin Coulter in the British Intelligence Services from the 1980's to the end of the 20th century. The Lubeck Diversion follows the rehabilitation of the hero after the near catastrophic end to his mission in Ireland. It is an exploration of way that a shared experience can affect each individual in a dramatically different manner. It takes Coulter from sun kissed Cyprus to winter in the old Hanseatic city of Lubeck before a dramatic conclusion in the Rhineland.
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