RAY SCOTT NOVELS
'Doubt of the Benefit' has just been released. His first book, 'The Fifth Identity', a mystery thriller, was published by Amazon as an e-book in 2012. The second book, 'Cut to the Chase', a thriller, was published in 2014 and was published as a paperback by Sid Harta Publishers of Melbourne and distributed through Dennis Jones & Associates of Bayswater.

IN COURSE OF PREPARATION

The Renegade

A Russian embassy official approaches an MI 5 building in London on a Sunday morning, wishing to defect, but is instructed to return the following day. Within hours, KGB operatives descend upon his London apartment.

Fortunately, the defector stayed overnight in an hotel and sought asylum the next day at a Guildford police station.  MI 5 has a problem…who turned him away that Sunday morning? Was he betrayed?

A team is appointed to investigate, is there a mole? If so, he or she must be located and apprehended before further damage is done. Then help comes from an unexpected quarter, from ASIO in Canberra.

Break-In to Danger

Stinger missiles are stolen from an Australian military establishment; shortly afterwards several wooden crates are deposited in a storage facility in Victoria. The facility’s receptionist wonders if the two events are linked and communicates her suspicions to the manager, who ridicules the idea.

Simultaneously a female university student enters a Melbourne police station to report the disappearance of a male student, police discover his flat-mate has also vanished. Detective Sergeant Griffiths, who is investigating a spate of burglaries in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, initially gives this report low priority, until he discovers a connection between the burglaries and the missing persons, then later detects a further link between these cases and the stolen Stinger missiles, which are also being investigated by ASIO.

The investigation gains pace as the authorities probe the three occurrences, with an exciting finale as they uncover a terror cell threatening death and destruction.