Awards Winner : Best Military Thriller 2022 - Audiobookreview.com International Runner Up - Best Thriller 2021 - Indies Today. Deep in the jungles of Ghana lies one of the largest gold mines in the world. It’s well protected, but perhaps not well enough. Drone technology, so out of place it’s almost alien, crushes the hardened defences. What follows is a game of cat and mouse between old adversaries, through the depths of the jungle. The countries President, unable to trust his closest advisors, turns to Max and his team to help him solve the problem. But how can Max’s team succeed when corruption and greed will stop at nothing? Who else wants to seize the gold with the wealth and power it can bring? Jungle Heist - 5 Star Reviews “If you want to sink your teeth into a good military action thriller, take a bite at Jungle Heist!” “Anyone into reading character-driven action that doesn't let up, high crimes that drop your jaw, and drama that grabs your breath will love the visceral high stakes of Jungle Heist” "Vividly described... nail-biting moments." "This book with suspense, action, gore, and power-play is ready for the big screen." “Jungle Heist is the exciting and impressive follow-up to Ransom Drop.” “The award-winning Phayre is an exceptional talent.” Rob Phayre - Best New Author - 2021 - Audiobookreview.com Jungle Heist. A gipping tale of gold, guns and gallantry set in the deepest jungles of Africa. It's an explosive story showing how criminals really could use current technology to pull off the greatest physical robbery of all time. Jungle Heist is written by the guy who has spent his working life defending against them.

The Associate is at it again. His intent? To carry out the most daring raid ever against one of the largest gold mines in the world. Deep in the forests of Ghana, drone technology, so out of place its almost alien, crushes the hardened defences. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the jungle. The theft is so vast that the President can't ask even his most loyal allies to recover it. And so he turns to Max. Max and his team of highly trained specialists are people he thinks he can trust. Can Max and his 'A-team' of specialists respond in time and intercept the gold in a remote jungle? All the while a corrupt enemy tries to hold on to the value and power that it would bring. Is The Associate trying to topple The President because he wants to put a puppet in power, or does he have even grander aims? 5 Star Reviews - Readers Favourite: "An action-packed thriller that keeps you hooked from start to finish." "Vividly described... nail-biting moments." "This book with suspense, action, gore, and power-play is ready for the big screen." Jungle Heist is book 2 of The Response Files and is a gipping tale of gold, guns and gallantry set in the deepest jungles of Africa. Its an explosive story of how criminals really could use current technology to pull off the greatest physical robbery of all time. Jungle Heist is written by Rob Phayre the the award winning author of Ransom Drop.

A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller’s development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean’s Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after remake (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The Good Thief). Built around a series of case studies (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Getaway, the Ocean’s trilogy), this volume explores why directors of such varied backgrounds, from studio regulars (Siodmak, Crichton, Siegel, Walsh and Wise) to independents (Anderson, Fuller, Kubrick, Ritchie and Soderbergh), are so drawn to this popular genre.

There is enough oil in the world for human needs, but not for humans greed. The world’s largest oil refinery is opening in the middle of a remote paradise in Madagascar. Vast resources were discovered in an area plagued by corruption and a growing insurgency. The tinderbox of religious fundamentalism is being fuelled by The Associate. He’s sent Abdi, his Somali henchman with nine lives, to wreak havoc. To attack, to destroy, to kidnap and kill. Mike and Raj are there for the opening ceremony looking after their client, an oil Princess. When the storm comes, they find themselves under the ultimate test. Do they run? Do they hide? Or do they fight! The last time Mike and Raj crossed paths with Abdi they were the hunters. But now, in an extraordinary quirk of fate, the hunters have become the hunted. What the reviewers say about The Response Files: "Vividly described... nail-biting moments." – 5 Stars – Prairies Book Review “The award-winning Phayre is an exceptional talent.” – 5 Stars – Readers Favourite "A tight, heart pounding, page turner." - 5 Stars! - Jennifer Jackson, Indies Today Rob Phayre – Winner - Best New Author - 2021 - Audiobookreview.com Rob Phayre – Winner – Best Military Thriller – 2022 – Audiobookreview.com What the reviewers say about The Response Files by Rob Phayre: Winner - Best New Author - 2021 - Audiobookreview.com International Runner Up – Best Thriller 2021 – IndiesToday Best Military Thriller 2022 – ABR Award “The award-winning Phayre is an exceptional talent.” – 5 Stars – Readers Favourite "Vividly described... nail-biting moments." – 5 Stars – Prairies Book Review "A tight, heart pounding, page turner." - 5 Stars! - Jennifer Jackson, Indies Today.

Explores the significance of the heist film genre.

The Associate is at it again. His intent? To carry out the most daring raid ever against one of the largest gold mines in the world. Deep in the forests of Ghana, drone technology, so out of place its almost alien, crushes the hardened defences. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the jungle. The theft is so vast that the President can't ask even his most loyal allies to recover it. And so he turns to Max. Max and his team of highly trained specialists are people he thinks he can trust. Can Max and his 'A-team' of specialists respond in time and intercept the gold in a remote jungle? All the while a corrupt enemy tries to hold on to the value and power that it would bring. Is The Associate trying to topple The President because he wants to put a puppet in power, or does he have even grander aims? Jungle Heist. A gipping tale of gold, guns and gallantry set in the deepest jungles of Africa. Its an explosive story of how criminals really could use current technology to pull off the greatest physical robbery of all time. Jungle Heist is written by the guy who has spent his working life defending against them.

As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.