Jim travels to London to meet Richard Finch MP, who is to reply in debate to Mrs Twaddle's denunciation of the Great Rat Hunt. The two men, who are both gay, hit it off and end up in bed together.
Norman is drawn further into Jim's unconventional world. From illegal wrestling matches to political scandal, it is starting to get slightly dangerous.
Norman, a young married businessman visits a distant antiques centre to buy a piece of furniture on which he had set his heart. He gets more than he bargains for. He loses his ass-cherry to the handsome, athletic owner, who seduces and fucks him. Strangely enough, it looks like the start of a beautiful friendship.
An early Richard Finch adventure set in Germany, soon after he joined the Parachute Regiment. Essential background, which explains a lot about Richard's later career.
This describes how Richard Finch and his long-term boyfriend James Graveney got together for the first time in Belize. Richard was on a recce in more senses than one. A bit of apocrypha, it was never included in any of the Richard Finch novels.
An extract from Max Markham's novel "Thirteen Clicks to Danger". This concerns an adventure of Richard Finch's irrepressible friend Lieutenant Vernon Scamp, a small, blunt and outrageous Yorkshireman in 4 Coy, 5 Para. On a visit to the Territorial Paras he gets drunk and and seduces a much bigger man, with dire consequences for Scamp.
A further extact from Max Markham's novel "Thirteen clicks to danger". Richard Finch, having a free afternoon, amuses himself by seducing a young man at Highgate Ponds in North London. This has unintended consequences.
Rory and Fergus have gone to bed after a long day. Not together, but in separate bedrooms in Castle Roy. Rory now schemes to ensure that this arrangement should be purely temporary and that eighteen year-old Fergus's time as a virgin should come to an end that very night. Now read on. To be continued. Part 3 to appear in due course.
A young man, between school and college, is on holiday in the Highlands. He meets a mysterious stranger, who is not quite what he seems. He is invited to visit and stay in a castle. To be continued.
The final episode of Retribution. Alex is rescued from Gary, but not before some more torture has been inflicted. But he has to think up a story to explain where he was the previous afternoon and evening. Happily, he has a vivid imagination. There is an unexpected postscript.
Continued from Part 3. Alex's punishment in Gary's private gym - torture chamber continues, but he finally learns why he is being punished and who Gary really is. To be continued.
Slightly amplified, an extract from Max Markham's next novel, "Thirteen Clicks to Danger," which is as yet unfinished and unpublished. As usual, it features Major Richard Finch; formerly of the Parachute Regiment and the SAS, now the proud owner of a Private Military Company (PMC: i.e. a mercenary). Richard is as politically-incorrect and over-sexed as ever. Both tend to get him into trouble. On this occasion Richard's fancy is tickled by a ...
Alex is still Gary's captive. Can things get any worse for him? Yes, they can. Gary has summoned his friend Bill, a frightening SAS soldier with serious military interrogation skills. He prepares to use them on Alex. Alex may finally be about to find out why he has been so brutally abused. But first things first... Part 4 to follow in due course.
Alex wakes up. He's still Gary's prisoner and Gary has not finished with him; not by any stretch of the imagination. Alex's vicious punishment by Gary goes on: he still has no idea what he's done to deserve this. The story - and Alex's nightmare - continue. Part 3 is to follow soon.
Alex, a young executive, walks into a sex shop in Soho for a browse one lunchtime. Unknowingly, he has also walked into a trap that was set for him years before. It is the start of a nightmare in which his past finally catches up on him and seems likely to prove lethal.
While Richard and James pursue their affair, a parallel romance grows between two Sergeants in their respective regiments (Kincaid and Usher). It starts at a drunken post-rugby-match dinner that gets out of hand. This is a further extract from Max Markham's novel "The Indigo Bird."
Stephen is on a gap year, travelling across Africa before joining the army. In Nairobi he meets Lawrence, a fully-fledged officer who has just been on a gruelling field survival course elsewhere in Kenya. In the event, he has a lot more to share than Stephen had foreseen. Neither has had sex for some time; you can guess the rest.
(From Max Markham's novel "The Vertical Land" which is published by Amazon Kindle)
This tells what happened after James Graveney and Cocky Sparow split up. James is posted to Belize, still a British colony and under threat from expansionist Guatemala. In Belize, James meets his fate, in the person of Lieutenant Richard Finch of the Parachute Regiment, a strong minded, charismatic younger man who wants a full and committed relationship with James and damn the consequences.