Thomas W. Devine

Thomas (Wayne) Devine was born in Marlborough, New Zealand, & educated at Marlborough College & Waikato University. He began writing in his teens but did not publish any fiction (that mainly thrillers) until after an early retirement from the public service.

He has 12 published novels to his credit and one book of poetry.

After working at locations in both the South and North Islands, he shifted to Wellington, where he has now lived among extended family, with his wife and pet tabby cat, for some years.

Genre:

  • Adult Fiction

Skills:

  • Corporate Writing
  • Freelance Writing

Branch:

Wellington

Location:

Wellington

Publications:

Political Secret

In a random incident on the Moscow Metro, Lee St John, a press attaché with the New Zealand embassy, gains access to an American secret with the potential to start World War III. On the run, he is tailed back to his own country by Russian agents. Attempting to keep the secret from getting into the wrong hands, he takes to the road from Christchurch, where he encounters New Zealand-born Natalie Voitenko. But is she friend or foe? She too has had dealings with the Russian secret police. Together they criss-cross the South Island. But it’s only a matter of time until pursuer catches up with pursued. www.createspace.com/7761719

Death on the Quay

Nurse Lora Spencer is stabbed to death by an unknown assailant during the morning rush hour on Wellington’s Lambton Quay. A freelance journalist, Adam Adair, finds himself holding the dying woman in his arms. Haunted by the experience, Adair decides to investigate. Lora’s relatives and associates can only tell him so much and, like her ex-boyfriend, may have something to hide. The task isn’t helped by the struggle Adair is having with his feelings for housemate Hailey Wilson, also a nurse at Wellington Hospital. Who has links to the crime, and will it be solved? Meanwhile, in fashionable Paraparaumu Beach, socialite Cynthia Blair is being stalked. Unwilling to reveal her ordeal to her husband, or anyone else, she fears her young son will be taken from her.