Adam Mann (Mike Lord)
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Mike Lord worked in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa for 25 years and then for another 25 years in South and East Asia before he retired. Mike has now written over twenty books including three historical novels, two thrillers and his autobiography. He has always been fascinated by personal relationships, and in real life is now enjoying his fourth marriage, after being widowed, divorced, and having had one marriage annulled as this ‘wife’ had forgotten to get divorced.
As a result he has extensive experience of social and sexual activities, which he brings into all his books in explicit detail. None of these books are a series, but Mike only writes about places he knows reasonably well. Underlying all these activities is a quest for a loving and ongoing relationship with his partner. Under the pen name Adam Mann, he has written another sixteen romance books, usually with a happy ending.
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Hanoi Heat: Even the Ants Are Drinking Water
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Romance
The story is set in modern day Ha Noi, told in the first person, with the two main characters resident there. Nicky is a Vietnamese woman, aged 28, still living with her mother who tells her her father was French, but she has only very limited and disappointing sexual experience. She works as an organiser in a fashion house, and is asked to represent them at an Embassy Reception. She dresses attractively and wears high heels to show off her legs, and has long black hair but worn in an unusual fashion. She meets Tony at the reception, who is immediately attracted to Nicky. Tony is older, is a widower, and is a ‘foreigner’ who has been living and working in Vietnam for some time. Tony is not a ‘professional’ seducer, but after the reception Tony and Nicky decide to have dinner together and coffee. The next day they meet again by chance, and this meeting results in dinner, some mutual seduction and unbridled sex. Tony lives and works in an hotel in downtown Ha Noi, which is his base for working in projects in provincial Vietnam. Nicky is surprised at her own reaction to naked sex with Tony, even wantonness, and allows herself to be undressed, stimulated and made love to by Tony, finding in him more than an attractive man, but exhilarating lover, and in a short space of time a ‘partner for life’, and the father of her daughter. 
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Red High Heels
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Romance
A research scientist books into a hotel before attending a conference on stem cell research, and whilst at the conference the hotel accidentally allows a young lady with a very similar name to move into his room. They find themselves facing one another wearing only towels wrapped around them! When they decide to have dinner together the lady wears her red high heels, and this prompts a joke about red high heels, and wild horses. The young lady had just run away from a potentially disastrous wedding, but has to make peace with her parents. Fortunately, she is introduced to other scientists as the man’s fiancée, and she allays fears in her parents with the same ruse, which then turns into reality when she is presented with an antique Victorian engagement ring! Please have a box of tissues handy as you read! 
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All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor
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Romance
Amelia is a competent and highly qualified professional First Officer on a small cruise ship that has been chartered for South China Sea trip, but she has essentially maintained her aloofness and independence until she meets the ship’s Captain when her resolves begin to crumble. The passengers on the ship are essentially there for a private business reorganisation session behind closed doors, but some of the younger passengers have other ideas about what can develop behind closed doors. 
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Singapore Heat
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Romance
The story is set in Singapore in the 1980s, when the young and dynamic country is still emerging towards social and economic independence. Six people, three men and three women, who live and work there, become involved in a series of meetings and/or their explicit sexual encounters over a four week period, between themselves, and other people from a wide ethnic range. Jealousy and violence enter the picture and the life of one character is lost, by accident, or design! The book is written in five chapters, with the first four chapters detailing the life style, work and experience of one or two of the six characters and their interaction with the other five people over a simultaneous time span of about four weeks. The final chapter ties together the results of the first four chapters. In one case romance unexpectedly follows, and those two persons can be regarded as the ‘happy ever after’ conclusion. One character dies, or is killed, which brings the six characters together in court. Three find themselves leaving Singapore, forever. 
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Kandy Heat
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Romance
She was prepared to give up everything for the man she met sitting on her kitchen doorstep! Harry is developing a dairy farm in Sri Lanka, and is an author of historical novels based mainly on Asian recorded history. Whilst visiting his agent in London, and waiting for his publisher’s cheque to clear, he decides to visit his family home of many years earlier. He meets the tenant, Makshi (55), an Indian lady nutritionist, but whilst they are enjoying a coffee together a man with a baseball bat attacks her car. He is confronted by Makshi and Harry, and attacks Harry in a drug induced rage, just missing his head with the baseball bat, but badly bruising his shoulder. The baseball bat has a mind of its own and breaks the attacker’s leg. Harry would have continued on his journey to childhood places and meeting old friends, but stays overnight with Makshi before she takes him to her hospital for x-rays and treatment. Harry agrees to stay with Makshi for several days, ostensibly to let his shoulder mend, but their relationship develops over those days, with several explicit sexual acts which surprises both of them. Their relationship matures and they decide to live together, sometimes feigning marriage, which many people assume they are. 
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West African Heat
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Romance anthology
One man meets five attractive ladies where he is working in the west coast of Africa, each of whom has a different background. With a farming background, he is attracted to horses and polo, which in turn captures the interests of three of the five heroines, but not at the same time. Mutual attraction is followed by explicit sex in each case. Just after Independence, Nigeria is a broad mix of individuals, many of whom are working to improve the lives and livelihoods of farmers. In the 1970s horses and polo were an integral part of life for both foreigners and locals, and went a long way to break down barriers. These are not stories of young male heart throbs, but of an ordinary middle-aged man who meets five ladies, and ends up in their beds. 
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Heat in the Tea Gardens
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Romance
Make sure you have a strong cup of black tea before you read this! Roger has been working in highland areas of Vietnam helping farmer families to grow and pick high quality fine flavour highland tea. Tuyet has been working in her family owned business to process and market high quality highland tea from Vietnam into European markets. One day they meet again, in her factory, and suddenly the spark of love unexpectedly enters into their lives which grows into amazing passion. After a season of trials and tribulations they both overcome the lack of divorce papers, and Tuyet manages to collect an engagement ring, a wedding ring, a new husband, but not always in the right order!
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A Body in the Laboratory
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Police action thriller
A cleaner finds a jacket lying on the floor of a top secret laboratory and then suddenly discovers there is a dead body inside the jacket. The police investigation is hampered by the secret research being conducted at the laboratory in the Fylde. Painstakingly the police review the suspects, but it becomes clear that the murderer probably came from overseas, prompted by the need for an organisation to find out what type of research has been achieved in the laboratory. One clue leads to an investigation amid the Vietnamese community in Nottingham, but the suspect appeared to have fled to Madrid where there are no extradition facilities for mere suspects. The police consider how they can lure the suspect back to the UK. A simple murder investigation becomes an international chase for the killer as the police forces in Germany and France become involved when it is discovered that the suspect was originally recruited by Stasi in East Germany before unification, but then fled to Marseilles and then on to England to escape custody following a murder conviction. A Body in the Laboratory Website
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His Third Wife
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Romance
Over 150 years ago, in fact in 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon published a book called Lady Audley’s Secret which went on the become a best seller at that time, and over the years the book has been serialized and films have been made based on this book. The literary fashion in those days was accidental bigamy, and in the book the heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two, and then sets fire to a hotel in which all her male acquaintances are residing. In Adam’s novella a man whose middle name is by coincidence Audley is happily married with three daughters, and in his travels he stays in various small quest houses. Over years he is seduced by daughters in each house, and when each becomes pregnant he “marries” each of them. The “scandal” does not become public until he loses his job, sues for unfair dismissal, and is awarded substantial damages. Sample Chapter
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The Showers
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Contemporary Romance
Bill Harrison meets Helen Roberts, a lovely farmer’s ex-wife at a farmhouse in the West Yorkshire Dales, as he guides a group of guests on a pony trekking holiday. Helen decides to take the lead and actually joins James in the shower! He soon finds himself helping out on more than a holiday romance, but also some of guests looking for ancestors in a local church registry; a young student couple running into their own romantic problems; and Amanda, her teenage daughter, who wants to learn to drive. In the midst of all this the wife’s belligerent former husband, Harry, turns up who had abandoned her and her unborn child nearly twenty years earlier. Harry Townsend is being pursued by the local constabulary on a murder enquiry, and might have been looking for a place to hide out, and reluctantly accepts a small cash handout from Bill. Then Helen finds that some elements of local society have a memory longer than the twenty years since she divorced her first husband for desertion, and the most spiteful can still remember his name. The police catch Harry; they overcome local spite and gossip, and Bill and Helen live happily ever after. This book is sexually explicit and is designed for adults and the over 18’s.
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Chocolates & Cyanide
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Murder, Action, Thriller
A box of milk chocolates is delivered to a man just before he leaves to fly to Botswana. He does not open it and just tucks it into his packed suitcase. His suitcase is delivered in error to a lady passenger in Johannesburg, who eats one of the chocolates and dies of acute cyanide poisoning! A concerted effort by the police in South Africa and England have to determine who was the intended victim, and who placed the cyanide in the chocolates, but the identities keep them mystified until they find who purchased the chocolates, and who stole the cyanide. The activities of a string quartette throws up several red herrings… Sample Chocolates & Cyanide |
