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Welcome to the official website of ChriS Humphreys
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When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler’s bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more – a spy in training. Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal and fall finally, fully, in love.
Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian-British Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite – which includes her beloved father – and send vital intelligence back to Britain.
They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive
– and that someday they find each other again.
From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism, and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.
Canadian Publication: June 6, 2023
PRE-ORDER? Click HERE
Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian-British Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite – which includes her beloved father – and send vital intelligence back to Britain.
They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive
– and that someday they find each other again.
From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism, and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.
Canadian Publication: June 6, 2023
PRE-ORDER? Click HERE
TWENTY YEARS! IMPOSSIBLE!
And yet it's true. My first novel was published in 2002.
I'd always thought I'd stop with one. You know, ticked that box in my life's journey. Now its 20 years later - and I've written 21 more novels!
Wild! But it is so wonderful to revisit my first child - commission new art from the amazing Robert Edmonds, do a new foreword... even correct some errors (who knew they didn't invent telescopes till 1608? Well, I didn't obviously!)
I hope I can welcome back some old readers for another journey - and some new ones for what is still, truly, the wildest of rides.
Click on the cover and begin!
And yet it's true. My first novel was published in 2002.
I'd always thought I'd stop with one. You know, ticked that box in my life's journey. Now its 20 years later - and I've written 21 more novels!
Wild! But it is so wonderful to revisit my first child - commission new art from the amazing Robert Edmonds, do a new foreword... even correct some errors (who knew they didn't invent telescopes till 1608? Well, I didn't obviously!)
I hope I can welcome back some old readers for another journey - and some new ones for what is still, truly, the wildest of rides.
Click on the cover and begin!
JACK'S BACK!
Read for the first time, or read again, what the Good Book Guide UK called:
“The finest series of historical novels since Patrick O’Brian.”
I've reissued all the Jack Absolute books. They've been unavailable (in some markets) for far too long. So I commissioned new covers, wrote new forewords - and I've even done some re-writing, because of all the changes Jack went through over three books. Such fun to be back with Jack!
Available in print and on Kindle right now Just click on the covers below to be taken to their page.
If you want to read in story order it goes:
The Birth Of Jack Absolute
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
Absolute Honour
Jack Absolute
Or if you'd like to ease into it, I can read the 'Birth' novella to you... HERE
Read for the first time, or read again, what the Good Book Guide UK called:
“The finest series of historical novels since Patrick O’Brian.”
I've reissued all the Jack Absolute books. They've been unavailable (in some markets) for far too long. So I commissioned new covers, wrote new forewords - and I've even done some re-writing, because of all the changes Jack went through over three books. Such fun to be back with Jack!
Available in print and on Kindle right now Just click on the covers below to be taken to their page.
If you want to read in story order it goes:
The Birth Of Jack Absolute
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
Absolute Honour
Jack Absolute
Or if you'd like to ease into it, I can read the 'Birth' novella to you... HERE
REWRITTEN, REVISED WITH NEW FOREWORDS
JACK ABSOLUTE - the Entire Story
Click On Covers to buy
Click On Covers to buy
