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​Welcome to the official website of

ChriS Humphreys
(Also known as C.C.)

AUTHOR. ACTOR. SWORDSMAN.

​Hello All! Thanks for coming to my new site. Click any of the links above to find my books and how to get them.
BREAKING NEWS!!
I have started to write essays on the craft of writing:
the Humphreys' Method for getting going and keeping going.
Click HERE to be taken to Medium. You can read a few articles for free to inspire you and then subscribe. A couple of dollars a month to help you to finally write that novel? Steal!
And NOW... look what else is happening...
THE NEW NOVEL IS COMING!

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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

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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!


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  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...

https://shop.authors-direct.com/collections/chris-c-c-humphreys/products/the-birth-of-jack-absolute

REWRITTEN, REVISED WITH NEW FOREWORDS
JACK ABSOLUTE - the Entire Story

Click On Covers to buy

​ONE LONDON DAY is here!


"Humphreys has always thrilled - now he frightens!"
Robert Dugoni, Author of the Tracy Crosswhite series

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MURDER ON THE STREETS OF LONDON
July 30th 2018.
It’s the hottest Summer in fifty years and Joseph Severin, a respectable North London businessman, has taken on a lucrative side job. He’s doing the books, old school, (because these days the only trail you can’t trace is a paper one) for a rogue MI5 outfit, the Shadows, headed by clever, psychopathic Sebastien. When the game is rumbled, he sends their hitman, Mr Phipps, to kill Severin and get those books back.
            For a simple man, Severin has a complicated life. He’s developed a sudden and wild passion for Lottie – aka ‘chaos on two legs’. Who is in love with Patrick, the next hot young black actor. Who is obsessed by Sonya, a gorgeous Russian escort. Who has one night to make the final money she needs for her daughter’s cancer operation. With MI6 onto them, and the books missing, the Shadows panic. And a day that begins with a hit in Finchley ends in violence and betrayal on the steamy night streets of Portobello.
            ONE LONDON DAY is a daisy chain tale of characters and connections, a contemporary  London Noir. Like that genre’s 40’s origins, this story has its hood, its moll, its femme fatale, its fancy boy. Everyone is both protagonist and antagonist. No one gets out unharmed – and some don’t get out at all.


Click here to buy in print ebook or audio:
https://books2read.com/cchumphreysonelondonday


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  • About Chris (CC)
  • Books...
    • Fantasy Fiction >
      • The Immortal's Blood Series >
        • Smoke in the Glass
        • The Coming of the Dark
      • The Tapestry Trilogy >
        • The Hunt of the Unicorn
        • The Hunt of the Dragon
        • The Hunt of the Shapeshifters
      • The Runestone Saga >
        • The Fetch
        • Vendetta
        • Possession
    • Historical Fiction >
      • The French Executioner
      • The Jack Absolute Series
      • Vlad
      • A Place Called Armageddon
      • Plague
      • Fire
      • Shakespeare's Rebel
      • Chasing the Wind
      • One London Day
  • Contact
  • Audiobooks