NEW ZEALAND: A NOVEL

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473728526

New Zealand: A Novel is a sweeping tale of discovery, destiny, and forbidden love in which the old and new worlds collide.

Spanning five centuries, this tale begins in the 1300’s when daring Pacific Islanders set sail from Hawaiki, chasing whispers of a bountiful land they believe awaits them far to the south. Those who survive the treacherous voyage discover a place they call Aotearoa – land of the long white cloud. Shrouded in mist, it’s a place of beauty, danger, and intrigue. The last sizeable slice of undiscovered land on Earth.

The new arrivals become Maori, forging a rich and complex culture spoiled only by the fierce and bloody intertribal conflicts that spread far and wide as the lust for land, food and influence increases. These herald an age of slavery and cannibalism.

Centuries later, Captain James Cook’s bark the Endeavour appears over the horizon. Maoris call the white intruders pakeha. Their arrival heralds a clash of two vastly different ideologies as European civilization collides head on with indigenous culture. As Cook begins his circumnavigation of the new land, he realises he has rediscovered a country Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovered 127 years earlier. A place called New Zealand.

Among the more engaging crewmembers aboard the Endeavour is Nicholas Young, the popular Surgeon’s Assistant whose willingness and thirst for adventure endear him to all. Nicholas soon finds himself caught between duty and desire when he meets Anika, a fiercely independent and captivating Maori princess whose world is about to be upended.

As Cook charts the unknown, Nicholas and Anika chart a course of their own – one fraught with peril, passion, and the weight of two civilizations at odds with each other. Their love defies the boundaries of culture and time, blooming in the shadow of misunderstanding, bloodshed, and upheaval.

This novel is a story of passion born in the eye of history’s storm. Adventure, romance, and the resilience of the human spirit converge in this unforgettable journey to the bottom of the known world.

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New Zealand: A Novel is available via Amazon as a hardcover, paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook...(Listening time: 11hrs. 25mins.)

https://www.amazon.com/New-Zealand-Novel-Lance-Morcan/dp/0473728524/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 7, 2024

ONE WITNESS TOO MANY

ASIN: ‎ B0HLVXQPDD

One glance. A face glimpsed through a store window. A killer who now knows exactly what she looks like.

Auckland IT specialist Nessa Carter has finally put her life back together. After being jilted by her fiancé on the eve of their wedding, she’s newly single, newly confident, and ready to face the world again.

Then an after-hours detour past a closed jewellery store changes everything. Through the store’s glass door, she witnesses a robbery that turns to murder — and in one heart-stopping moment, the killer's eyes lock on hers.

He flees, leaving no fingerprints, no usable CCTV footage, no other witnesses. Only Nessa.

As the police investigation stalls, Nessa realises a terrifying truth: being the sole witness, she's the only person alive who can identify the killer. Worse, he saw her clearly so she knows it’s likely he will be searching for her.

Her fears are well grounded.

With no leads, no suspects, and a professional killer who doesn't leave loose ends, Nessa must decide how far she'll go to stop him — before he decides to silence the one witness who can put him away.

Because in this case, being the only witness is one witness too many.

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One Witness Too Many is available via Amazon as a Kindle eBook and audiobook. (Listening time 5hrs. 8mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/One-Witness-Many-Lance-Morcan-ebook/dp/B0HLVXQPDD/

Paperback to come.

Published by Sterling Gate Books, October 9, 2026

5 SHORT STORY GEMS: Once Were Brothers / Mr. 100% / A Gladiator's Love / The Last Tasmanian Tiger / Brooklyn Bankster

ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-0473519308

This compendium of short stories is aimed at lovers of thrillers, adventure, romance and historical fiction, and comprises the following:

ONCE WERE BROTHERS – Life will never be the same for young Benjamin Thomas after disaffected Maori abduct his identical twin brother in this moving short story adventure set in Nineteenth Century New Zealand.

Mr. 100% – When New York defense lawyer Madison ‘Mr. 100%’ Harley secures a Not Guilty verdict for a client who confides that he is guilty of the ghastly crimes he was accused of, he sets out to ensure that justice is done.

A GLADIATOR’S LOVE – In this short story set in Ancient Rome, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas is one fight away from winning his freedom. Throughout his trials he is sustained by the love of Fatuma, a beautiful gladiatrix.

THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER – Outdoorsman Charlie Truganini can’t believe his eyes when on a trip into Tasmania’s wilderness he sees a Tasmanian tiger – a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct.

BROOKLYN BANKSTER – After ageing hippy Bill Hogan is taken hostage during a bank heist in Brooklyn, his captors demand a million-dollar ransom for his safe return. The problem is no-one knows who the hell Bill Hogan is. Does he even exist?

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5 Short Story Gems is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle eBook and audiobook. (Listening time: 5hrs. 53 mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Short-Story-Gems-Gladiators-Tasmanian-ebook/dp/B086JZSK2T

Published by Sterling Gate Books March 29, 2020

GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ

ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-0473318499

GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ is Book 1 in the controversial The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It includes a Foreword by leading Japanese scientist Takaaki Musha.

In his Foreword Dr. Musha, who was formerly senior research scientist at the Technical Research and Development Institute of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, writes: “This book contains a wide range of genius methods – all of which have the potential to increase your IQ” and he believes “this is a much needed book for those who sense there are faster and easier ways to learn and study than the methods currently being taught in mainstream education systems.”

Genius Intelligence shatters the myth that geniuses are born not developed, and it reveals how most instances of above-the-ordinary intelligences are acquired thru superior cognitive techniques or brain enhancing technologies.

From the outset we, the authors, question whether there are faster and easier ways to learn and study than the modi operandi currently being taught in the mainstream.

Among the discoveries shared with readers are brain waves common to geniuses and the various ways to induce those brain waves; mental techniques the world's elite and A-List celebrities are quietly using to help them process information while they're asleep or in virtual worlds; chemical substances students and academics the world over employ to kick-start the brain into overdrive; and cutting-edge technologies business tycoons and professional athletes employ to gain a cerebral edge over their competitors.

Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, Genius Intelligence lists dozens of practical methods to increase IQ and speed-learn any subject.

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Genius Intelligence is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 3hrs. 9mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/GENIUS-INTELLIGENCE-Techniques-Technologies-Underground/dp/0473318490/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 11, 2014

WHITE SPIRIT (A novel based on a true story)

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0473372262

White Spirit is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia and based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham. Co-authored by James Morcan, it’s a sweeping tale that encapsulates all the nuances of the southern continent's unique history and provides readers with detailed insights into the tribal life of First Australian (Aboriginal) peoples.

After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own.

The Kabi, who had never seen a European before, believed departed loved ones sometimes returned as white spirits; they considered Graham a white spirit – hence this novel’s title. In fact, he was “recognised” by Mamba, a solo mother who believed the Irishman to be her departed husband Moilow who had been killed by warriors of another tribe. In an instant, Graham acquired an Aboriginal wife and her two teenage sons. Theirs was a happy union.

Over the years, attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire.

When Scottish woman Eliza Fraser is found shipwrecked and close to death in Kabi territory, Graham’s pursuers along with his adopted Aboriginal family are all forced to navigate a dangerous rescue mission. At stake are the lives of Eliza Fraser and John Graham.

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White Spirit is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 32 hrs. 46mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/White-Spirit-novel-based-story/dp/0473372266/   

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books September 12, 2016

ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies?

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0473312336

ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies? is Book 2 in the controversial The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It includes a Foreword by advanced interstellar propulsion systems expert Grant Hayman and an Afterword by leading scientist and space industry veteran Dr. Takaaki Musha.

A far-reaching exploration into the UFO phenomenon that covers all possible scenarios and discounts nothing, this book includes never-before-mentioned accounts of popular UFO topics like Area 51, Roswell and alien abduction claims, as well as tackling less reported subjects such as Nazi and Japanese antigravity experiments and even rarer theories involving quantum physics and lost civilizations of the Ancients.

We, the authors, ask: What do all the sightings of UFO’s around the world reveal? Who is covering up the existence of these strange craft in our skies? And are the technologies manmade or extraterrestrial in origin?

The answers may surprise you.

Marcha Fox, sci-fi author and ex-NASA engineer/manager (employee of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX) has this to say about Antigravity Propulsion: "I was particularly impressed by the unbiased, objective, journalistic views presented in this interesting book. The authors look at all angles and possibilities, allowing the reader to digest them on his or her own merits… The authors do an excellent job of staying on topic as expressed by the title versus going off on tangents, which is so easy to do in a field where there are so many unanswered questions."

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Antigravity Propulsion is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 2hrs. 1min.).

https://www.amazon.com/ANTIGRAVITY-PROPULSION-Technologies-Underground-Knowledge-ebook/dp/B00RSF22SI/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books January 3, 2015

SILENT FEAR (A novel inspired by true crimes)

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0473408121

When you can’t hear…death comes silently.

That’s the tagline my co-author James Morcan and I use to promote this mystery crime thriller. Silent Fear was inspired by the murders of Deaf students at Gallaudet University, one of the world's most prestigious learning institutions for the Deaf, between 1980 and the early 2000's. The investigating authorities didn't know if the killings were 'inside jobs' and for a time nearly everyone connected to Gallaudet was under suspicion.

Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world.

When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives.

Within the book is a commentary by Deaf filmmaker Brent Macpherson on the unique aspects of Deaf culture the story covers. Together, we and Macpherson are developing a feature film adaptation of Silent Fear.

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Silent Fear is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 21hrs. 26 mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Fear-novel-inspired-crimes/dp/0473408120/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books October 31, 2017

MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 979-8664292114

MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures is Book 3 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It includes a Foreword by retired pharmacist and author Denis Toovey.

This explosive book explores the contention that Big Pharma and other participants in the healthcare sector put profits ahead of patients’ wellbeing and dollars ahead of lives. It leaves readers in no doubt that something has run amuck in the medical field, and what should be the noblest profession has been severely compromised by the various conflicting interests.

While readers are reminded there are many honorable people within the medical establishment who are doing incredible things for their fellow Man, their attention is also drawn to the rampant commercialism, political selfishness and dogmatic academia that plagues the industry.

We, the authors, refer to the doctors, hospitals, medical academia, pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment suppliers, health insurers et al who make their money from sick people, not healthy people. It’s indisputable that if everyone was healthy many of the aforementioned would be out of business – so it’s hardly in their financial interests to cure illnesses and ailments.

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Medical Industrial Complex is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 4hrs. 49mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX-Suppressed-Underground/dp/B08CJR21HQ/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 24, 2015

INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story)

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-0473361280

INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) co-authored by James Morcan, is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805.

It’s a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization – colliding head on.

John Jewitt (19) is one of only two survivors after his crewmates clash with the fierce Mowachaht tribe in the Pacific Northwest. A life of slavery awaits John and his fellow survivor, a belligerent American sailmaker, in a village ruled by the iron fist of Maquina, the all-powerful chief.

Desperate to taste freedom again, they make several doomed escape attempts over mountains and sea. Only their value to the tribe and John’s relationship with Maquina prevents their captors from killing them. As the seasons pass, John ‘goes Indian’ after falling in love with Eu-stochee, a beautiful maiden.

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Into the Americas is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 14hrs. 2mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Into-Americas-novel-based-story/dp/0473361280/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 24, 2015

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA: J.D. Salinger's Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?

ISBN-13‏: ‎ 978-0473380496

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA: J.D. Salinger's Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?) is Book 4 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan.

This contentious book unearths the mysteries surrounding the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger – arguably the most controversial book of all time. Nicknamed the 'Bible of teenage angst', the classic novel, which is frequently labeled immoral by different groups, has been banned in various parts of America over the decades.

However, the main controversy, and indeed the most common reason for it being banned, was that it either inspired or was associated with some of the most infamous crimes of the 20th Century. These crimes include the murder of John Lennon and the attempted assassination of President Reagan.

The allegation directed at Salinger is that he (and/or his publisher) craftily implanted into the book neurolinguistic passages, or coded messages, that act as post-hypnotic suggestions or mind control “triggers”. In turn, these triggers enabled CIA handlers to activate Manchurian Candidates for assassinations.

Some conspiracy theorists also believe the novel was part of the CIA’s now mostly declassified mind control program MK-Ultra, and that while assassins were being brainwashed they were forced to read the book over and over until it was embedded in their minds.

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The Catcher in the Rye Enigma is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 1hr. 39mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Coincidental-Underground/dp/0473380498/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 22, 2016

THE DOGON INITIATIVE (The Deniables Book 1)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473519728

The Dogon Initiative is a political thriller set in Mali, West Africa. Co-authored by James Morcan, it follows the fortunes of a group of foreign mercenaries hired as deniable assets by a new division of the CIA. They are tasked with saving Mali’s persecuted Dogon people from genocide. The operation must be carried out in stealth while journeying across some of West Africa’s most hostile terrain. At the same time, they must help solve an ancient astronomical mystery linked to the pyramids of Egypt.

Nicknamed the Deniables because their existence isn’t officially acknowledged by the CIA, the mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for their lives when they get caught in the middle of warring ethnic factions in Mali. Their only way to survive is to join with the Dogon in a race against the clock.

The stakes are so high that not only could an entire indigenous group be wiped off the face of the Earth, but all evidence that supports advanced ancient technology theories surrounding the Dogon and a lost civilization thesis may be destroyed in the process.

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The Dogon Initiative is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 10hrs. 45mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Dogon-Initiative-Deniables-Lance-Morcan/dp/0473519720/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books June 20, 2025

INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism

ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8664359459

INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$ is Book 5 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. Aimed at those who want to know who is covertly manipulating the financial markets behind the scenes, it identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%.

The financial overlords illuminated in this book include the powerbrokers at Wall Street banks, European central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Vatican Bank, as well as elite banking dynasties such as the Rothschild and Rockefeller families.

Though the subjects covered may be monetary issues, that’s on the surface only. In reality, they are humanitarian issues. As we state in the book’s opening pages, “Starving the masses of financial opportunities, sinking them in debt and cheating them out of various services their taxes should pay for, are among the greatest sins those in power can commit.”

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INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$ is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 3hrs. 43mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/INTERNATIONAL-BANKSTER-Restructuring-Capitalism-Underground/dp/B08CJXDMCP/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books July 7, 2020

WORLD ODYSSEY (The World Duology Book 1)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473363734

WORLD ODYSSEY (The World Duology Book 1) is the first of a two-book adventure series co-authored by James Morcan. It precedes Fiji: A Novel, Book 2 in the duology.

Set in the 19^th Century, it follows the fortunes of three young travellers as each embarks on an epic journey. Their dramatic adventures span 16 years and see them engage with Native Americans, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world – from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa.

Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson decides to visit Fiji to trade muskets to the Fijians. Sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake's agrees to accompany her clergyman father to Fiji to help him run a mission station there. And irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday escapes to Fiji only to be tracked down by a bounty hunter employed to round up escaped convicts.

The lives of all three eventually intersect.

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WORLD ODYSSEY (The World Duology Book 1) is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 8hrs. 19mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/World-Odyssey-Duology-1/dp/0473363739/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books July 14, 2016

THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V (Genius Intelligence / Antigravity Propulsion / Medical Industrial Complex / The Catcher in the Rye Enigma / International Banksters)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473340322

THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V contains the first five books in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. Garnering evidence from court cases, declassified government files and media reports, this series discloses little-known facts on a wide range of topics.

We, the authors, define underground knowledge as the news behind the news – i.e. those concepts, decisions and events that are ignored, misreported or at best under-reported in Mainstream Media (MSM).

We have avoided speculation wherever possible in this series and have, for the most part, written about subjects that can be backed with facts. Where we might briefly deviate into pure speculation, we highlight that so the dividing line between fact and rumor is always clear.

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THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 13hrs. 35mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-Intelligence-Antigravity-Propulsion-International-ebook/dp/B0175CSWGY/  

Published by Sterling Gate Books October 24, 2015

FIJI: A NOVEL (The World Duology Book 2)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473194710

FIJI: A NOVEL (The World Duology Book 2) is the second of a two-book adventure series co-authored by James Morcan. It follows World Odyssey, Book 1 in the duology.

By the mid-1800's, Fiji has become a melting pot of cannibals, warring native tribes, sailors, traders, prostitutes, escaped convicts and all manner of foreign undesirables. It's in this hostile environment an innocent young Englishwoman and a worldly American adventurer find themselves. Susannah Drake, a missionary, questions her calling to spread God's Word as she's torn between her spiritual and sexual selves. As her forbidden desires intensify, she turns to the scriptures and prayer to quash the sinful thoughts - without success.

Nathan Johnson arrives to trade muskets to the Fijians and immediately finds himself at odds with Susannah. She despises him for introducing the white man's weapons to the very people she is trying to convert and he pities her for her naivety. Despite their differences, there's an undeniable chemistry between them. When their lives are suddenly endangered by marauding cannibals, Susannah and Nathan are forced to rely on each other for their very survival.

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FIJI: A NOVEL (The World Duology Book 2) is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 9hrs. 26mins.)

https://www.amazon.com/Fiji-Novel-Lance-Morcan/dp/0473194716/  

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books September 15, 2011

BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt

ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8656941174

BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt is Book 6 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It is dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world.

This book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world’s poorest people. It also questions whether the aid packages provided are genuine or whether they are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries.

We, the authors, expose the culture of corruption within the aforementioned aid organizations and the arrogance with which they treat their Third World ‘clients.’ We also reveal there’s a nefarious hidden agenda at play whereby the ‘generosity’ extended by international aid organisations in assisting the development of the Third World and providing relief in the event of natural disasters comes with serious strings attached. Strings designed to fleece vulnerable nations.

The reader is reminded the economic hit men popularized in John Perkins’ 2004 bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man are still alive and well – in Africa in particular.

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BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 2hrs. 19mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/BANKRUPTING-THIRD-WORLD-Underground-Knowledge/dp/B08CJNJRQK/  

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books June 25, 2020

THE ME TOO GIRL

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473519735

THE ME TOO GIRL is a crime thriller co-authored by James Morcan. It was sparked by the rise of the “Me Too” movement following major news reports exposing serial sexual assault allegations against certain Hollywood film producers.

Young Los Angeles public relations exec Suzie Fox is being blackmailed for sex by a bad cop, a senior officer of the LAPD no less. Suzie fights back the only way she knows how, and, in the process, unwittingly becomes a beacon, a shining light, for America's “Me Too” movement and for abused women everywhere. But will justice be served?

This novel’s themes seem to resonate with readers. Amazon’s summary of what “Customers say” about it states: “Customers find the book's story engaging... The content receives positive feedback for its topical relevance and message, with one customer highlighting its thought-provoking themes."

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THE ME TOO GIRL is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 2hrs. 54mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Me-Too-Girl-Lance-Morcan/dp/0473519739/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books April 24, 2020

UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473365400

UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet is Book 7 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It asks what the world’s superpowers get up to in their secret underground bunkers, and it details confirmed and rumored underground facilities around the world and in the United States in particular.

We, the authors, make a compelling case – supported by rare photographic evidence throughout as well as little-known quotes from key government figures – for the existence of an enormous hidden world under the Earth's surface. Our sources include declassified files, university reports, WikiLeaks’ documents and interviews with ex-military personnel-turned-whistleblowers who claim to have worked in “cities below ground”.

The exposé covers everything from the US Department of Defense’s verified evacuation areas beneath the White House and the Pentagon to underground facilities around the world including Russia’s sprawling Mezhgorye complex and Australia’s CIA-managed Pine Gap.

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UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 2hrs. 34mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-BASES-Subterranean-Facilities-Underground/dp/0473365405/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books September 15, 2016

THE NINTH ORPHAN (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473193133‎

In the international thriller novel THE NINTH ORPHAN (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1), co-authored by James Morcan, an orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with.

On the run, the mysterious man's life becomes entwined with his beautiful French African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed.

Readers are taken on a tumultuous journey around the globe to such far-flung locations as China, France, the Philippines, Andorra, America, England, Germany and French Polynesia. The frenetic cat-and-mouse chase moves from airports to train stations and clandestine torture prisons, culminating in a shocking, nail-biting ride into the world's closet of skeletons that goes beyond conspiracy theories to painful reality.

Merging fact with fiction, this novel illuminates shadow organizations rumored to actually exist in our world.

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THE NINTH ORPHAN is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 8hrs. 32mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Ninth-Orphan-Trilogy/dp/0473193132/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books August 19, 2011

VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed?

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473521592

VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed? is Book 8 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan with Foreword by U.S. medical laboratory scientist Elísabet Norris.

This exhaustively researched book is an unbiased, neutral, fact-based investigation that simply allows the science to do the talking on childhood vaccinations. We, the authors, avoid all rumor, conjecture and anecdotal evidence, and steadfastly focus on what the latest medical studies actually reveal about vaccines listed on the immunization schedule.

By collaborating with a professional medical advisory team and utilizing investigative journalism methods, we have painstakingly sifted through the world’s best scientific research papers.

Readers are warned they should be prepared to be surprised by many of the medical research findings (links to sources supplied) within this book.

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VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed? is available via Amazon as a hardcover, paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 13hrs. 47mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/VACCINE-SCIENCE-REVISITED-Immunizations-Underground/dp/0473521598/

The print versions are also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books June 5, 2020

THE ORPHAN FACTORY (The Orphan Trilogy Book 2)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473519742

THE ORPHAN FACTORY (The Orphan Trilogy Book 2), co-authored by James Morcan, is the prequel to The Ninth Orphan. It’s an epic, atmospheric story that begins with 23 genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle.

In the late 1970's, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont Project - a radical experiment utilizing genetic engineering technologies - to create 23 orphan babies with the plan to turn them into the world's most effective assassins.

One of the prodigies will rebel: meet Number Nine, an orphan with a mind of his own. Nine is forced to draw upon all of his advanced training just to stay alive.

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THE ORPHAN FACTORY is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 11hrs. 59mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Factory-Trilogy/dp/0473519747/

The paperback is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books April 19, 2020

UNIT 731: The Japanese Auschwitz

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473775933

UNIT 731: The Japanese Auschwitz is Book 9 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. It exposes one of the darkest and least acknowledged chapters of the 20th Century – a covert Japanese concentration camp disguised as a military complex in Northeast China during World War Two. A place where science, ambition, and cruelty fused into industrialized murder.

In the aftermath of that war, and indeed all wars before and since, few names evoke as much horror as Unit 731. Within its walls, prisoners were burnt, frozen, infected, dissected alive, and used as expendable test subjects in the pursuit of military supremacy. The atrocities committed within rivaled those of Nazi Germany’s most infamous concentration camps – hence this book’s subtitle: The Japanese Auschwitz.

The collapse of Unit 731, the frantic cover‑up that followed, and the postwar silence – fueled in part by geopolitical deals that shielded perpetrators – underscore a moral failure that still reverberates today.

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UNIT 731: The Japanese Auschwitz is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 1hr. 49mins.).

Published by Sterling Gate Books March 6, 2026

THE ORPHAN UPRISING (The Orphan Trilogy Book 3)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473521042

THE ORPHAN UPRISING (The Orphan Trilogy Book 3), co-authored by James Morcan, resumes five years after book one, The Ninth Orphan, ends. In this explosive conclusion to the series, the ninth-born orphan's dramatic story continues.

Nine has married his soul mate Isabelle, having eluded his former masters at the Omega Agency and escaped his past life as an operative. They've carved out a new life for themselves off the grid in the remote islands of French Polynesia. The contented couple have a five-year-old son, Francis, who is a chip off the old block and who has inherited his father's unique DNA.

Their idyllic lifestyle is shattered when Francis is abducted by operatives in the employ of the Omega Agency, the shadowy organization that brought Nine into the world and once controlled every aspect of his life. The terrified boy with the unique DNA is dispatched to one of Omega's underground medical laboratories for scientific testing and experimentation. Nine is desperate to find Francis before Omega can harm him.

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THE ORPHAN UPRISING is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 11hrs. 16mins.).

The paperback is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books April 24, 2020

MYSTERIOUS GREENLAND: Frontier of the Breakaway Civilization

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473796433

MYSTERIOUS GREENLAND: Frontier of the Breakaway Civilization is Book 10 in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan. We, the authors, peel back the layers of history, geopolitics, secrecy, and myth to reveal why the icy frontier that is Greenland has become one of the most coveted and contested regions on Earth.

We also journey into the world’s biggest and most enigmatic island at the very moment it steps onto the global stage courtesy of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Blending documented events with underreported facts and provocative analysis, we explore Greenland as a laboratory of the Elites, an Arctic battleground, and a potential launchpad for what some researchers call a Breakaway Civilization — an advanced, clandestine offshoot of humanity operating beyond public oversight.

From Cold War-era projects such as Operation Blue Jay, Thulegate, and Project Iceworm to modern battles over rare earth minerals, Arctic shipping lanes, and the ambitions of global powers, this book uncovers the hidden forces shaping Greenland’s past, present, and future. Along the way, it investigates Inuit mysteries, disappearing Norse settlements, Ancient Civilization theories, extraterrestrial claims, WW2 enigmas and the growing belief that Greenland may hold secrets capable of reshaping our understanding of human history.

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MYSTERIOUS GREENLAND is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 5hrs. 39mins.).

Published by Sterling Gate Books July 12, 2026

THE ORPHAN TRILOGY (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising)

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473239466

THE ORPHAN TRILOGY (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising), co-authored by James Morcan, is an international thriller series that has periodically dominated Amazon’s bestseller lists.

Twenty-three orphans with numbers for names from 1 to 23. Meet Number Nine – an orphan, a spy, a lover...a master of disguise, an assassin, a shapeshifter...a freedom fighter, a human chameleon, a reformed contract killer. He's all of the above.

Nine is enslaved by the Omega Agency, a shadowy organization seeking to create a New World Order. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, Nine is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with.

On the run, his life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past is revealed...A past that involves the mysterious Pedemont Orphanage in Chicago, Illinois. Standing in the way of Nine's freedom are his fellow orphans - all elite operatives like himself - who are under orders to terminate him.

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THE ORPHAN TRILOGY (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising) is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 31hrs. 52mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Trilogy-Ninth-Factory-Uprising-ebook/dp/B00BGGM05U/

Published by Sterling Gate Books February 14, 2013

THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES VI-X (Bankrupting the Third World / Underground Bases / Vaccine Science Revisited / Unit 731 / Mysterious Greenland)

ISBN-13: 978-0473799236

THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES VI-X (Bankrupting the Third World / Underground Bases / Vaccine Science Revisited / Unit 731 / Mysterious Greenland) contains the latest five books in The Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James Morcan.

This series plunges readers deeper into the shadows of global power, exposing the hidden forces shaping society in ways most people never imagine. In this controversial and explosive box set we, the authors, continue our relentless investigation into the world’s most secretive institutions, controversial subjects, and suppressed truths.

We have avoided speculation wherever possible in this series. Where we might briefly deviate into pure speculation, we highlight that so the dividing line between fact and rumor is always clear.

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THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES VI-X is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 24hrs. 10mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-KNOWLEDGE-Bankrupting-Underground-Mysterious-ebook/dp/B0HCJK2V7Q/

Published by Sterling Gate Books August 1, 2026

DEBUNKING HOLOCAUST DENIAL THEORIES: Two Non-Jews Affirm the Historicity of the Nazi Genocide

ISBN-13: 978-0473362287

DEBUNKING HOLOCAUST DENIAL THEORIES: Two Non-Jews Affirm the Historicity of the Nazi Genocide, co-authored by James Morcan, was written in close consultation with Holocaust survivors and WW2 historians. It includes a Foreword by Holocaust survivor Hetty E. Verolme, author of The Children's House of Belsen.

No stone is left unturned in meticulously verifying the historical facts of the genocide. We, the authors, present a wide array of sources including Nazi documentation, eyewitness accounts, scientific reports and shocking photographic evidence to shut down the debate deniers wish to create. One by one, the various arguments Holocaust deniers use to try to discredit wartime records are carefully scrutinized and then systematically disproven.

Theories debunked include: the six million death toll figure being an exaggeration; gas chamber exterminations being fictitious; Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich being wrongly vilified; the analysis of Holocaust records being a taboo due to specific laws in Europe criminalizing deniers; “Evil Zionists” and Israel being so powerful that they can censor history.

The Holocaust is shown in this book’s pages to be one of the most well-documented and most historically and forensically proven crimes of the 20th Century.

Holocaust survivor Peter Kubicek, author of Memories of Evil: A World War II Childhood, says, "First-rate contribution to an important topic. This book is the result of prodigious research. I recommend to everyone who has an open mind and wishes to learn more."

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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 5hrs. 3mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/DEBUNKING-HOLOCAUST-DENIAL-THEORIES-Historicity/dp/0473362287/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books July 15, 2016

THE HEATHROW AFFAIR

ISBN-13: 979-8643409298

THE HEATHROW AFFAIR, co-authored by James Morcan, is an aviation thriller novel set at Heathrow International Airport near London. It that was inspired by a narrowly avoided tragedy which saw the captain of a British Airways flight being partially sucked out of the aircraft after it suffered an explosive decompression over Oxfordshire.

That event, which occurred on June 10, 1990, involved BA Flight 5390. It was caused by an improperly installed windscreen panel, which separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ejected. He was held in place through the window frame for 20 minutes until the plane successfully landed. The captain miraculously survived and made a full recovery.

In this novel, young Heathrow Airport employee John Woods seems to have it all – a career he loves and the girl of his dreams. But all is not what it seems in this aviation love triangle... John’s life is turned upside down when his beloved Sandra announces she’s leaving him for a dashing pilot employed by the same international airline John works for. When John is blamed for a mid-air incident that has catastrophic consequences for one of the airline’s aircraft, he and Sandra are reunited in a way neither could ever have imagined.

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The Heathrow Affair is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 2hrs. 40mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Heathrow-Affair-Lance-Morcan/dp/B088BG397V/

The paperback version is also available from via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 5, 2020

THE ORPHAN CONSPIRACIES: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

ISBN-13: 979-8656918534

THE ORPHAN CONSPIRACIES: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy is co-authored by James Morcan and includes a Foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha and an afterword by renowned historian Professor Richard Spence.

This non-fiction book contains hard to find knowledge. It is based on the political, scientific and financial insights in our bestselling international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy recognized for merging fact with fiction by incorporating real-world theories on public figures and major organizations.

In many ways, this exhaustively researched work is the secret history of the 20th and 21st Centuries. But more than a historical record, it reveals what is happening right now behind the scenes – in underground bunkers, in the corridors of power, in prime banks and meetings of the world's elite.

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The Orphan Conspiracies is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 13hrs. 34mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Conspiracies-Conspiracy-Theories-Trilogy/dp/B08BWGPM6K/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books June 25, 2020

HIGH COUNTRY CONTRACT

ISBN-13: 979-8648659315

HIGH COUNTRY CONTRACT, a crime-based adventure novel co-authored by James Morcan, is set in New Zealand’s Southern Alps.

Young Kiwi drifter Arch Quaid thinks he has landed the contract of his life when he’s hired to cull deer on a high country property in the South Island of New Zealand. He quickly changes his mind when he discovers he’s the hunted, not the hunter.

Caught up in the middle of it all is his new love Janine, a beautiful Maori girl who will likely be the killer’s next target if Arch doesn’t overcome the most daunting of odds.

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High Country Contract is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 3hrs. 43mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/High-Country-Contract-Lance-Morcan/dp/B0892HSZTQ/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 25, 2020

ONCE WERE BROTHERS

ISBN-13: 978-0473508074

ONCE WERE BROTHERS is a short-story-length historical adventure set in 19^th Century New Zealand. It was inspired by the true-life ordeal of one Caroline “Queenie” Perrett, a young white girl who was abducted by Maori in the Taranaki district. The girl’s bereft father spent years unsuccessfully searching for his missing daughter. That true story had a happy ending many years later after a chance sighting in Wellington.  

In Once Were Brothers, the Thomas family’s lives will never be the same again when seven-year-old Daniel Thomas is abducted from their farm by Maoris angered by the desecration of land that is tapu, or sacred. The land contains the bones of their iwi's ancestors. The culprit, Daniel’s father, devotes his remaining years to searching for his missing blue-eyed, blond-haired son. Until his death a decade later, he’s assisted in his search by Daniel’s identical twin brother Benjamin. Like his father, Benjamin believes Daniel is still alive. Twenty years later and now a family man himself with children of his own, Benjamin receives a tip-off that could confirm one way or another whether his brother is alive or dead.

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Once Were Brothers is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 1hr. 12mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Once-Were-Brothers-Lance-Morcan-ebook/dp/B082Z5FBVZ

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 20, 2019

Mr. 100%

ISBN-13: 979-8647044327

Mr. 100% is a legal thriller novella inspired by the introduction of DNA profiling now utilized every day worldwide in criminal investigations.

New York defense lawyer Madison Harley only takes on clients he believes innocent. He’s known as ‘Mr. 100%’ because he has never lost a case, and consequently he is Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the NYPD, the District Attorney’s Office and the media.

It’s 1987 and groundbreaking developments in the field of forensic science sees DNA profiling used for the first time in criminal investigations in America. This has major repercussions for Harley. Estranged from his wife and children, he feels suicidal. Then he meets beautiful prosecution lawyer Kate Marshall. The attraction is immediate – and mutual.

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Mr. 100% is available via Amazon as a paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 1hr. 32mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Mr-100-Lance-Morcan/dp/B0892DP4SW/

The paperback version is also available via Harvard Book Store, Mighty Ape NZ, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Kete Books NZ, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 22, 2020

A GLADIATOR’S LOVE

ISBN-13: 978-047350747

A GLADIATOR’S LOVE is an action-romance short story inspired by the fact that there were gladiatrices, or female gladiators, in Rome. And there’s evidence to suggest they were honored as highly as their male counterparts.

Women of all classes participated in spectacles hosted by emperors Nero, Titus and Domitian, and history suggests many gladiatrices were ‘high born’ women of means. Affluent women could afford the training and had leisure time to work out. Professional gladiator troupe managers encouraged these women, offering money and glamour. Popular gladiators were revered as sex symbols and feted by Roman citizens, and no doubt it was the same for gladiatrices.

In this tale, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First, he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill. The year is 83AD and it’s nine years since Roman soldiers killed a young Leonidas’s family in their farmhouse outside Athens and consigned him to the life of a gladiator at Ludus Magnus, one of the biggest and best ludi gladiatori, or gladiator schools, in Rome. Since then, he remains undefeated after 25 fights and has risen to the top of the gladiator rankings.

The Greek gladiator craves freedom. The one good thing in his life is Fatuma, an Ethiopian beauty who is a gladiatrix, or female gladiator, and who has stolen his heart.

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A Gladiator’s Love is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 50mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Gladiators-Love-Lance-Morcan-ebook/dp/B082S2MKN3/

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 14, 2019

THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER

ISBN-13: 978-0473506711

THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER is a short story and a work of pure fiction. Set in Tasmania, Australia, it was inspired by the true-life figure of Dingo Truganini, the Aboriginal tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus – an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger courtesy of its stripes and the fact that it was a carnivorous marsupial. That was in 1933. They named him Benjamin, and he resided at the Hobart Zoo until his death in 1936.

Charlie Truganini can’t believe his eyes when on a trip into Tasmania’s wilderness he sees a Tasmanian tiger – a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct. Charlie has a number of claims to fame – one of those being he’s a direct descendant of one Truganini, the woman considered to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian and whose name he inherited. A close second to that is he’s the great-grandson of one Dingo Truganini, the tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus – an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger.

When Charlie sees a Tasmanian tiger with his own eyes, he realises he doesn’t want his tiger meeting the same fate as the last one. And so he makes a decision. A decision that will have life-and-death consequences.

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The Last Tasmanian Tiger is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 33mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Tasmanian-Tiger-Lance-Morcan-ebook/dp/B082GGKR77

Published by Sterling Gate Books December 6, 2019

BROOKLYN BANKSTER

ISBN-13: 978-0473502515

BROOKLYN BANKSTER is a mystery thriller short story that begins when ageing hippy Bill Hogan is taken hostage during a bank heist in Brooklyn, New York City. His captors demand a million-dollar ransom for his safe return. The problem is no-one knows who the hell Bill Hogan is. Does he even exist?

All is not what it seems in this fast-paced short story.

As one Amazon reviewer (Sherie A. Wilkinson) says, “It starts as an ordinary day in New York City, until a bank gets held up and Bill Hogan gets kidnapped. Bill is from a wealthy family and the ransom demand is high. But things turn a bit odd when no one seems to know who Bill is. A fast paced original compelling story. Although short, it is not short on suspense, action and thrills. It grabs your attention and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end!

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Brooklyn Bankster is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 50mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Bankster-Lance-Morcan-ebook/dp/B07ZTT23YK/

Published by Sterling Gate Books October 30, 2019

THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN JEWITT: The true story that inspired Into the Americas (Illustrated)

ISBN-13: 978-0473434618

THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN JEWITT by John Rodgers Jewitt – published by Sterling Gate Books with Foreword by Lance and James Morcan – was, as this nonfiction book’s subtitle suggests, the inspiration for our bestselling historical adventure novel.

In our Foreword, we state: “Formatting aside, Sterling Gate Books has retained Jewitt’s writings verbatim – typos, Olde English and more. We have also retained the original editor’s introduction and annotations throughout.”

Readers will be impressed, as we were, by John Jewitt’s command of the English language considering his tradesman’s background (blacksmith), youthfulness (early twenties) and the year (early 1800s).

John’s adventures in the Pacific Northwest must surely rank as one of history’s greatest wilderness survival stories. Jewitt was one of only two survivors when fierce Mowachaht warriors slaughtered 25 crew members aboard the brig The Boston. He and his fellow survivor had to endure more than two years as slaves of the First Nations people of Nootka.

Thanks to Jewitt’s fondness for the written word and his diligence in maintaining his diary entries throughout his captivity, we have been left with an intriguing insight into his life, and into the lives of First Nations people.

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THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN JEWITT: The true story that inspired Into the Americas (Illustrated) is available via Amazon as a paperback and Kindle eBook.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4VS8HB 

Published by Sterling Gate Books April 9, 2018

FOUR HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVELS (White Spirit / Into the Americas / World Odyssey / Fiji: A Novel)

ISBN-13: 978-0473494520

FOUR HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVELS is a compendium of critically-acclaimed novels co-authored by James Morcan. Collectively, they span over 2,000 action-packed pages. Each epic tale is set in the 19th Century and each has strong romantic themes.

The four novels are:

White Spirit (A novel based on a true story): This epic novel is based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham who escapes the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement on Australia’s east coast to find sanctuary with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines.

Into the Americas (A novel based on a true story): A gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest wilderness survival stories. It’s a tale of two vastly different cultures – North America’s First Nations people and European civilization – colliding head on.

World Odyssey (The World Duology, Book 1): This novel follows the fortunes of three young travelers. Their adventures span 16 years and see them engage with Native Americans, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world.

Fiji: A Novel (The World Duology, Book 2): A continuation of the dramatic adventures of the travelers who feature in book one in the duology. English missionary Susannah Drake wants to convert the Fijians while American adventurer Nathan Johnson wants to trade muskets.

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FOUR HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVELS is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook.

https://www.amazon.com/Historical-Adventures-Spirit-Americas-Odyssey-ebook/dp/B07X49D17B/

Published by Sterling Gate Books August 28, 2019

THE OCEANIA FICTION COLLECTION: White Spirit / High Country Contract / Fiji: A Novel / New Zealand: A Novel / The Last Tasmanian Tiger / Once were Brothers

ISBN-13: 978-0473783815

THE OCEANIA FICTION COLLECTION is a compendium of tales by the Morcans. It spans over 2,000 pages and comprise an intriguing mix of historical fiction and contemporary thrillers. The first three books are novels co-authored by James; the last three include one novel and two short stories all solo-authored by Lance. All are set in that place known as Oceania – a vast geographical region spanning the Pacific Ocean.

The selections include:

White Spirit (A novel based on a true story): An epic novel based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham who escapes the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement.

High Country Contract: A crime-based adventure novel set in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Kiwi deer culler Arch Quaid discovers he’s the hunted, not the hunter.

Fiji: A Novel (The World Duology, Book 2): Missionary Susannah Drake wants to convert the Fijians while American adventurer Nathan Johnson wants to trade muskets. Uh oh.Trouble's ahead.

New Zealand: A Novel: Spanning five centuries, this is a sweeping tale of discovery, destiny, and forbidden love in which the old and new worlds collide.

The Last Tasmanian Tiger: When Charlie Truganini sees a Tasmanian tiger he realises he doesn’t want his tiger meeting the same fate as the last one. And so he makes a difficult decision.

Once were Brothers: The Thomas family’s lives will never be the same after seven-year-old Daniel is abducted by Maori angered by the desecration of land deemed tapu or sacred.

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THE OCEANIA FICTION COLLECTION is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and audiobook. (Listening time: 58hrs. 50mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Oceania-Fiction-Collection-Contract-Tasmanian-ebook/dp/B0GX336TS1/

Published by Sterling Gate Books May 16, 2026

ANNO 2020 – by James Morcan / Story consultant Lance Morcan

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0473749682

Anno 2020 is a global kaleidoscope of interconnected characters seeking redemption, answers and justice amidst the chaos of Anno MMXX (Year 2020).

(Now an independent feature film written and directed by James Morcan. Anno 2020 the movie is an epic mystery-drama out now as a streaming release).

The novel and its subsequent feature film adaptation provide readers and viewers with a memorable albeit fictional snapshot of the cataclysmic year that was 2020. The storyline reveals the challenges interconnected characters face as they deal with separation and other problems during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

James’s feature film adaptation of Anno 2020 was shot against all odds in 17 cities on four continents during the lockdowns of 2020-21 on a micro budget of US$6,000. This award-winning movie was produced by Sydneysider Gil Ben-Moshe, of MoneyShot Productions, and helmed by James. They both act in it as well.

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Anno 2020 is available via Amazon as a hardcover, paperback, Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 4hrs. 43mins.).

https://www.amazon.com/Anno-2020-James-Morcan/dp/0473749688/

The print versions are also available via Harvard Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, and via public libraries.

Published by Sterling Gate Books July 18, 2025