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MICHAEL JOHN KIKER
The Last Spartan
Follow the life of a young Spartan, Theron, from the brutal training regime of a Spartan Agoge to becoming a Royal Guard to Macedonian Kings.
Along the way he is forced to become a pit fighter in the deadly fighting pits of Macedonia, makes and loses friends and finds the love of his life.
While Theron and his friends fight overwhelming odds against vile enemies, three Macedonian Kings die or are killed. The Goddess Hera visits Theron throughout his life; to guide and help protect him so he can fulfil a destiny, the Gods have set in place for him.
This is my 6th book and I have
enjoyed the research into ancient Greece and writing this story in 1st person.
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My Books
The Last Spartan
Follow the life of a young Spartan, Theron, from the brutal training regime of a Spartan Agoge to becoming a Royal Guard to Macedonian Kings. Along the way he is forced to become a pit fighter in the deadly fighting pits of Macedonia, makes and loses friends and finds the love of his life.
While Theron and his friends fight overwhelming odds against vile enemies, three Macedonian Kings die or are killed. The Goddess Hera visits Theron throughout his life; to guide and help protect him so he can fulfil a destiny, the Gods have set in place for him.
The mike bennett TETRALOGY
For An Angel's Breath
Set in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War in 1968, a young soldier teams up with a group including Mercenaries and CIA Agents to search for a lost diamond 'The Angel's Breath'.
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He finds mateship and love in a jungle of hellish deathtraps and danger.
For an SS Treasure
Mike Bennett, our hero from For An Angel's Breath, returns to the deadly jungle of South Vietnam to search for a Nazi SS treasure of gold, smuggled out of Germany into Indochina at the end of the 2nd World War. He and his new team are not the only treasure hunters and the search soon becomes a deadly cat and mouse chase in the middle of the horror that was the Vietnam war.
For an Ancient Stone
Mike Bennett returns, this time to
visit an old friend in Sorrento Italy,
10 years after his last tour of duty.
He soon finds himself in a life and
death struggle against overwhelming
odds to find an Ancient Stone lost for
centuries, and to rescue the two people
he loves more than life itself.
With the help of two old comrades,
Bennett must find the Ancient Stone in
the time set by the evil leader of a
murderous group of fanatics to
save the ones he loves.
For an American P.O.W.
It is November 1969 and Corporal Mike Bennett returns to Vietnam to help a friend who has been captured by the North Vietnamese and is a Prisoner Of War in Hanoi, North Vietnam. It will take every ounce of Bennett's willpower, training and experience, and cost him almost everything, including his freedom, to help his friend. With a deadline set for an execution of his friend, Bennett has only days to get into Hanoi and escape again with his friend. He will need to draw on all his warfighting skills to complete this almost impossible mission.
From under a Kurrajong tree
Follow the life of Jack Jeffery, from his birth under a massive Kurrajong tree, that towered above his family home to the life and death struggle as a young soldier in the 39th Battalion fighting the Japanese on the infamous Kokoda Track. Along the way he becomes a shearer in western Queensland and a tent boxer in a traveling show.
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My Story
After serving over 30 years as a soldier in the Australian Army,
I turned my hand to writing and love the challenge of converting my many story ideas into exciting stories, I hope my readers will enjoy. Over many years I served with soldiers who had seen active service in many different conflicts. I picked up great stories, told to me over a beer or two, and I try to include many of these true life stories into my fiction writing. By doing this I hope it gives my readers a chance to experience the life and death situations many of my mates have been in.
For my 6th book I hope to take my readers back to 371 BC where they will become, Theron, The Last Spartan.
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