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Peter Watt
Peter Watt's life experiences have included time as a soldier, articled clerk to a solicitor, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and adviser to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He has lived and worked with Aborigines, Islanders, Vietnamese and Papua New Guineans.
He speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin - and has a reasonable grasp of the English language. He currently lives in Maclean, on the Clarence River in Northern NSW.
Good friends, fine food, fishing and the vast open spaces of outback Queensland are his main interests in life. He also enjoys SCUBA diving, military history, crosswords (but not the cryptic kind) and teaching.
He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management, the Australian Institute of Training and Development and the Australian Society of Authors.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (University of Tasmania), Post Graduate Diploma of Training & Development (University of New England) and an Associate Diploma of Justice Administration (Sturt University).
Available Books by Peter Watt
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The Pacific
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742611167
RRP: $19.99
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Eden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330421881
RRP: $19.95
A new war, a new generation and an old enemy meet in this thrilling and poignant novel of love, loss and hope written by the bestselling author of Papua.
Jack Kelly and Paul Mann are like brothers; the two old wartime enemies have been through blood and fire and must now face their greatest challenge. When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific they know that they must do everything in their...
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To Ride the Wind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330404150
RRP: $14.99
In 1916, the Duffys and Macintoshes are entangled in the horrors of World War I. From the deserts of the Middle East to the trenches of Europe, the hand of death is always present. But even those left behind are not safe, for the most dangerous of enemies is not the Germans or the Turks, but someone much closer to home...
To Ride the Wind continues the story begun in To Touch the Clouds, followin...
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To Touch the Clouds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330425827
RRP: $19.99
In 1914, the storm clouds of war are gathering. Matthew Duffy and his cousin Alexander Macintosh are sent by Colonel Patrick Duffy to conduct reconnaissance on German-controlled New Guinea. At the same time, Alexander's sister, Fenella, is making a name for herself in the burgeoning Australian film industry.
But someone close to them has an agenda of his own someone who would betray not onl...
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Frozen Circle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330425032
RRP: $19.99
In 1918, after the Great War, two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in northern Russia. Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View.
Following the Armistice, Sergeant Joshua Larkin is sent on a special mission deep into enemy territory in Russia. But when he is ordered to do the unthinkable, he mus...
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The Stone Dragon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330423984
RRP: $19.99
It is the turn of the 20th century an era of tumultuous change. What is it that draws Tung Chi, a former Shaolin priest in the service of the Chinese emperor, to the Australian colony of Queensland?
This mystery ensnares local businessman John Wong, who fears for his daughter, living across the world in Peking at a time when a revolutionary force known as the Boxers is on the rise. Together Tun...
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The Silent Frontier
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330422925
RRP: $19.95
Lachlan, John and Phoebe MacDonald, three young children tragically separated after the massacre at the Ballarat goldfields, try to make their way in a world filled with poverty and war.
John is determined to find his lost siblings and meanwhile works hard to make a name for himself. A business partnership leads to riches and rewards that he never dreamed of.
Lachlan has always known what it is ...
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To Chase The Storm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330364850
RRP: $19.95
Major Patrick Duffy is torn by conflicting duties: his oath to the Queen is unwavering as she gathers her armies together to march on the Boers of southern Africa, but his duty to his family is equally clear. But when his beautiful wife Catherine leaves him for another, returning to her native Ireland, Patrick's broken heart propels him out of the Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another blo...
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Papua
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330364225
RRP: $19.95
Two men, sworn enemies, come face to face on the battlefields of France . . .
When Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a brave and high-ranking German officer, an unexpected bond is formed. But neither could imagine how their pasts and futures would become inextricably linked by one place: Papua.
The Great War is finally over and both so...
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Flight Of The Eagle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330363648
RRP: $19.95
Sequel to 'Cry Of The Curlew and 'Shadow Of The Osprey'.
No one is left untouched by the dreadful curse which haunts two families, inextricably linking them together in love, death and revenge.
Captain Patrick Duffy is a man divided between the family of his father, Irish Catholic soldier-of-fortune Michael Duffy and his adoring, scheming maternal grandmother, Enid Macintosh. Visiti...
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Shadow Of The Osprey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330362771
RRP: $19.95
Sequel to 'Cry Of The Curlew'.
On a Yankee clipper bound for Sydney Harbour the mysterious Michael O'Flynn is watched closely by a man working undercover for Her Majesty's government. O'Flynn has a dangerous mission to undertake - and old scores to settle. Twelve years have passed since the murderous event which inextricably linked the destinies of two families, the Macintos...
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Cry Of The Curlew
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330362047
RRP: $19.95
A stark and vivid novel of Australia's brutal past. An epic tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property.
Their paths cross in love, death and revenge as both families fight to tame the wild frontier of Australia's north country....
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Cry Of The Curlew
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732909659
Australia's harsh history as you've never read it before . . .
Squatter Donald Macintosh little realises what chain of events he is setting in motion when he orders the violent dispersal of the Nerambura tribe on his property, Glen View. Unwitting witnesses to the barbaric exercise are bullock teamsters Patrick Duffy and his son Tom.
Meanwhile, in thriving Sydney Town, Michael Duffy and...
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Eden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405036153
A new war, a new generation and an old enemy meet in this thrilling and poignant novel of love, loss and hope written by the bestselling author of Papua.
Jack Kelly and Paul Mann have survived one world war will they survive another? When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific the two men know that they must do everything in their power to protect their country, and their loved ones from a...
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Flight Of The Eagle
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732911034
Sequel to 'Cry Of The Curlew and 'Shadow Of The Osprey'.
No one is left untouched by the dreadful curse which haunts two families, inextricably linking them together in love, death and revenge.
Captain Patrick Duffy is a man divided between the family of his father, Irish Catholic soldier-of-fortune Michael Duffy and his adoring, scheming maternal grandmother, Enid Macintosh. Visiti...
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Papua
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732911430
Two men, sworn enemies, come face to face on the battlefields of France . . .
When Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a brave and high-ranking German officer, an unexpected bond is formed. But neither could imagine how their pasts and futures would become inextricably linked by one place: Papua.
The Great War is finally over and both so...
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Shadow Of The Osprey
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780732910310
Sequel to 'Cry Of The Curlew'.
On a Yankee clipper bound for Sydney Harbour the mysterious Michael O'Flynn is watched closely by a man working undercover for Her Majesty's government. O'Flynn has a dangerous mission to undertake - and old scores to settle. Twelve years have passed since the murderous event which inextricably linked the destinies of two families, the Macintos...
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Stone Dragon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405037891
It is the turn of the 20th century an era of tumultuous change. What is it that draws Tung Chi, a former Shaolin priest in the service of the Chinese emperor, to the Australian colony of Queensland?
This mystery ensnares local businessman John Wong, who fears for his daughter, living across the world in Peking at a time when a revolutionary force known as the Boxers is on the rise. Together Tun...
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The Frozen Circle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405038546
In 1918, after the Great War, two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in northern Russia. Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View. Following the Armistice, Sergeant Joshua Larkin is sent on a special mission deep into enemy territory in Russia. But when he is ordered to do the unthinkable, he must...
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The Silent Frontier
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405037105
Lachlan, John and Phoebe MacDonald, three young children tragically separated after the massacre at the Ballarat goldfields, try to make their way in a world filled with poverty and war.
John is determined to find his lost siblings and meanwhile works hard to make a name for himself. A business partnership leads to riches and rewards that he never dreamed of.
Lachlan has always known what it is ...
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To Chase The Storm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732911874
A faraway war and an ancient curse shadow the Duffys and Macintoshes into the twentieth century . . .
When Major Patrick Duffy's beautiful wife Catherine leaves him for another, returning to her native Ireland, Patrick is propelled out of the Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another bloody war. However the battlefields of Africa, fighting the Boers, hold more than nightmarish terrors and un...
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To Ride The Wind
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405039994
In 1916, the Duffys and Macintoshes are entangled in the horrors of World War I. From the deserts of the Middle East to the trenches of Europe, the hand of death is always present. But even those left behind are not safe, for the most dangerous of enemies is not the Germans or the Turks, but someone much closer to home
'To Ride the Wind' continues the story begun in 'To Touch the Clo...
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To Touch The Clouds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405039406
They had all forgotten the curse... Except one... Until it touched them. I will tell you of those times when the whitefella touched the clouds and lightning came down on the earth for many years.
In 1914, the storm clouds of war are gathering. Matthew Duffy and his cousin Alexander Macintosh are sent by Colonel Patrick Duffy to conduct reconnaissance on German-controlled New Guinea. At the same t...
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