The Last Viking: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Heist - Softcover

Dawson, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956173233 ISBN 13: 9780956173232

Publisher: Mulberry Tree Books, 2009

Synopsis

This is a new UK edtion of Ron Dawson's highly rated first novel. Revised and with more location photographs, the cover for this UK edition was designed by Infinite Wisdom film productions (see website under Feature Films)who have a contract to bring the novel to the silver screen. At the cost of his own life, the last surviving member of the Aston Villains tells the inside story of a daring robbery. Telling of sea crossings in the dead of night in amphibious vehicles, the destruction of a peaceful island s links with the outside world, the capture of its police force, shootings, horrific torture and deaths, high stake gambles, treachery, revenge, inter-gang rivalries, the unremitting merciless powers of Her Majesty's Secret Services, Nazi money laundering, impetuous and divisive sex, this is a fast moving story with unexpected twists and turns. But why was news of this massive and violent raid murderously suppressed by the British establishment Why did some of the gang walk free while others had to die And just what was Ronnie Wheeler's final deal, and why did he also have to die

About this title

About the Author

Ron Dawson was born in Birmingham's Dudley Road Hospital in 1940. At the age of two he was adopted by a canal boatman and his wife. He was brought up on the vast Kingstanding Council estate. He began work as a butcher's boy and for the next nine years had a succession of short-lived jobs, ranging from building site labourer, window cleaner, soft drinks delivery man, power-press operator to door-to-door salesman. A serious motorcycle accident led him to train as a teacher of maladjusted children. He went on to gain the degrees of BA., M.Sc., and PhD., mostly by part-time study. He became a Research and Chartered Psychologist, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He was principal lecturer for post-graduate awards and Head of Special Needs and Habilitation for ten years in what is now the University of Winchester. He has numerous academic and research based publications, many focused upon behavioural and emotional difficulties. His Teacher Information Pack (Tips), published by Macmillan Education, which embraced the whole range of Special Educational Needs, was described in a psychological Journal review as an Opus Magnum. He was the originator, author and co-developer of the Baby Progress Guides, a pack of materials designed to help parents assess their baby's development. He also had his own regular column, The Dawson File, in Special Children magazine. The Last Viking is his first novel. His next novel I, Oedipus, is underway and is told from the psychological perspective of a serial rapist and killer who is obsessed by the Oedipus myth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mulberry Tree Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956173233
• ISBN 13: 9780956173232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212