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JohnLWelsh
  • Name: [John Lawrie-Welsh]
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  • Location: Shropshire, UK
  • Member since: 26/07/2011 12:25
  • Currently reading: Held to Account
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Biography

John Lawrie-Welsh is a Scot, born on the Fife coast. After spells in banking, the RAF and teaching he returned to university for a Masters degree. After work as an economist and management lecturer in the UK and abroad, including Czechoslovakia, he eventually retired to Shropshire.

My first novel "Cuelsin" is based very much on experience but in a fictional setting. It deals with relationships between government, the security services and criminality. It will shortly be followed by "Held to Account", an imaginitive take on the EU's missing millions, reacquainting the reader with characters from Cuelsin.


Other Works

Held to Account

A new novel by J Lawrie-Welsh

Politics, love affairs, criminality and revenge make a powerful mix in this follow-up novel to Cuelsin.

Corrupt businessmen are siphoning millions out of EU budgets. Robert McAlister is engaged to invest the activities of one such group and liaises with ex-colleagues from British Intelligence. McAlister is compromised when a Frenchwoman with whom he becomes involved is abducted by the gang.

As the criminals become increasingly frustrated their violence calls for measures that go beyond both the agents’ instinct and training.

Cuelsin

A recently disgraced government minister has attracted the attention of British Intelligence. Rob McAlister follows a trail of business deals from Hungary to the UK accompanied by Cuelsin, his East European contact. In a remote Scottish university town the Politician's ruthless plan for a return to power is uncovered.

The outcome for both McAlister and his target is completely unexpected.

A few of my favourite things

His interests are walking, golf and fly-fishing, travelling abroad and, of course, writing.

Areas of Expertise

I believe there is no substitute for experience. I have travelled widely, from Iceland and Faroe to Hong Kong and Australia but mainly in northern and central Europe, driving down to Italy almost every year, sometimes to the Mediterranean. This provides me with a colourful choice of venues for my novels. Also several changes of career have brought me into contact with a diverse cross-section of people, professionals, politicians and businessmen, sometimes in quite unusual and even bizarre circumstances. It is from an amalgam of these encounters, honest men and women or rogues, that I draw my plots and characters.

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