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Award-winning novelist Andrew has turned his media experience behind the scenes in the political world of a devolved Scotland into the series of Scottish political thrillers featuring Edinburgh freelance journalist Willie Morton. Morton isn't really the fearless kind. He's a new man, considerate, ethical, not very macho. Prefers the easy life and a nice pint, but he has staying power, determined to get to the truth, even when he becomes the story and bullets start to fly...
A former freelance journalist and press officer who worked for more than ten years for politicians at Westminster and Holyrood, Andrew has had several encounters with 'spooks'. In 1982 London, his then 22 year old girlfriend was recruited by MI6. He visited her in Geneva but she'd been advised by her 'handler' to drop him. Then, in 1990, during the writing of a best-selling non fiction book titled Britain's Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo-American State, investigating the murky world of nationalist extremists, MI5 spooks and agent-provocateurs, he had another brief encounter with MI5 support agents in Scotland. So he has plenty of experience to draw upon.
Now his Willie Morton series, available in paperback and eBook editions, explores the uncertain terrain between a declining Britain and an emerging Scotland with unions of one kind or another being debated. The establishment that once ruled half the world is facing scrutiny from all sides and seeing threats on every corner. And a trouble-making journalist like Willie Morton is most certainly numbered among these.
DEADLY SECRECY. In the first of the Willie Morton Scottish espionage series, Morton investigates the suspicious death of an anti-nuclear activist in the Scottish Highlands in 2007 and uncovers a link to illegal convoys of radioactive material set to rumble north to Dounreay. It seems the UK government are in collusion with the plan and perhaps even in the death of Angus McBain. Morton puts himself at great risk to find out. [Feb 2019]
SUSPECT LOYALTIES is set in 2009 – Gordon Brown’s Labour Cabinet imploding, an expenses scandal rocking Westminster, a minority SNP government threatening the union. Morton is accosted by a man claiming a crucial by-election in Glenforgan, unexpectedly won by Labour, was rigged. He’s sceptical – until he learns the ballot papers have mysteriously been destroyed and cannot be checked. Then the Deputy Returning Officer is found dead. His investigations lead him into an underworld of fringe politics, the sinister and elusive Raymond Mearns and a derelict cottage at East Wemyss. Tracking Mearns into a coastal cave – a hidden entrance to disused mine workings – he's knocked unconscious in the absolute darkness and it seems he's heading for a dead end… [April 2024]
SCOTCHED NATION is set in 2015, five months after the Independence Referendum, Morton's chance discovery that he bear a resemblance to a man, Philip Gallimont, let off a drink-driving charge on Home Office Orders, unlocks the door to a secret plot. Gallimont is working for a pro-Union group run by members of MI5 and the old school tie network of the British State. Morton infiltrates the group to find out how far they will go to prevent Scotland leaving the Union. They have support in Whitehall. Is the Prime Minister involved? But some questions are just too dangerous and better left unasked. [Oct 2019] Scotched Nation is also an Audible audiobook, narrated by former BBC Radio Scotland presenter, David Sillars.
OBLIVION'S GHOST is the third in the series with Morton tasked with finding Luke Sangster, a hacker on the run from Britain's secret police. He’s tagged into a game of cat and mouse from the lunar landscapes of Assynt to Glasgow and across the North Sea illegally to Denmark. But Morton cannot work out where Sangster’s loyalties truly lie. He begins to suspect he is being entangled in an entrapment exercise to spread suspicion and distrust amongst the Independence movement. As they travel through Sweden’s remote forests, he learns the truth, but by then it is almost too late… Oblivion’s Ghost haunts a shadow world of ambivalent loyalties where spooks and support agents deploy ever more controversial tactics against Scottish dissidents. [29 May 2020]
SOVEREIGN CAUSE, the fourth in the series, sees Morton attempting to unravel a thirty-year-old conspiracy over the 1985 death of Treasury mandarin Matthew McConnacher nineteen days after his report, claiming an independent Scotland could be economically viable, was classified under the Thirty year rule. Intrigued by the state's reluctance to declassify the report and the misgivings of McConnacher's daughter, he begins to investigate and learns of a power-grab at the heart of the Cameron government led by Commander Neil Smyth, now chair of the National Security Committee -- whom Morton has reason to fear -- and a secret military deal with hardliners in Spain to crush Catalan nationalists. With his intern Ysabet Santanac arrested in Barcelona after a political rally, Morton is high on the hit list as deadly forces unleashed by London and Madrid converge to bury an inconvenient truth. [1 June 2021]
Morton will appear in future titles in the series.
Andrew is the author of ten non fiction book titles and four literary novels under his full name of Andrew Murray Scott.
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