Rising Blood

The final chapter in the astounding Charlie Doig trilogy: another installment of rip-roaring adventure and intrigue, as our hero escapes from Russia to the Orient.

A wonderful conclusion to a brilliant trilogy

At last, the right kind of hero: virile, ruthless and adventurous

James Fleming, nephew of Ian is a class act: a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style

James Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels, all of them good: The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, White Blood and Cold Blood. He writes in Scotland. 
 
Visit him online at www.jamesfleming.com

Welcome to the final volume of the Charlie Doig Trilogy… 
 
Lenin may have just seized power for the Bolsheviks, but Charlie Doig has just seized twenty-eight tonnes of Lenin’s gold. For two days he’s the richest man in Russia. However, on hearing that his escape route to the west has been cut off by the Red armies, he hides his gold and sets off along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Pacific, and freedom. 
 
Russia is in chaos and Charlie has to fight his way past refugees, bandits and murderers, only to find when he gets to Siberia that the Japanese have invaded. When he meets an old flame, Countess Cynthia von Zipf, and is sent to Japan to eliminate a deadly rival, Charlie realises that this adventure is only just beginning…

The Temple of Optimism

An astonishing, richly absorbing first novel, set in 18th Century Derbyshire, about greed, money and love.

Heart-stoppingly good.  One detects the hand of a master

Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe for 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar: out of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788 he has created a fiction that bears comparison with the great novelists of the nineteenth century.Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel of extraordinary richness, at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection of two of mankind's most powerful passions: greed and love

Cold Blood

A breathtaking, pacy, thrilling adventure, set during the Russian Revolution, from the nephew of the creator of James Bond.

Bitterly gruesome...Ultra-masculine...Mesmeric...James Fleming's text sings with finely tuned nature notes

Relentless energy and garrulous black humour ....An original and talented voice

Extraordinary use of plot and pace and language...this is a thriller, no bones about it. For anyone who feels that there aren't enough armoured trains in today's popular fiction, or enough murderous White Russians with God and destiny on their side - and I am one - this book is a must

Doig is the right kind of hero: virile, ruthless, adventurous

James Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels, all of them good: The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, White Blood and Blood Rising. He writes in Scotland. 
 
Visit him online at www.jamesfleming.com

The Russian Revolution is breaking out around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. He is determined to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who raped and tortured his wife, Elizaveta. Convinced that Glebov will sooner or later turn up at Lenin's side, he and Kobi, his Mongolian henchman, make their way to St. Petersburg. There, amidst the chaos of the Revolution, they discover that Glebov has been put in charge of the political re-education of the Tsar and his family. The chase begins... 
 
Having captured an armoured train, Charlie fights his way to Siberia with a motley army of recruits and a breathtaking adventure unfolds. With rumours of the Tsar's gold reserves nearby, Charlie resolves once he has revenged Elizaveta to attempt to seize a barge of gold from under the watchful eyes of four different armies.

White Blood

A compelling historical thriller set in Russia on the brink of the Revolution.

A meticulously researched act of reconstruction...The narrative, the dialogue and the intensity of Doig's emotions drive the story to a savage climax that reads like a modern thriller. It is the best sort of historical novel

Beautifully written, with baroque energy and style

Moves at a cracking pace with plenty of atmosphere and sympathy

Fleming finds an unencumbered, historically penetrating language in which the simplest expository sentences can bring prose, story and setting into a crisp and evocative alignment

This is a tense, thrilling and at times darkly comic novel with a complex central character who... bursts off the page

An extremely wintry and hard hitting adventure story...this is a historical evocation at times as powerful as the account of pre-1914 Berlin that the late great Sybille Bedford gave us in A Legacy..... readers will surely welcome its author to the ranks of our greatest storytellers

James Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels, all of them good: The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, Cold Blood and Rising Blood. He writes in Scotland. 
 
Visit him online at www.jamesfleming.com

The son of an English father and Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man - big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy of Sciences in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. Doig, however, has no intention of volunteering to be killed. He returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, adn to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta. 
 
At first the Pink House remains untouched by outside events, and the familiar ways continue as before. But Imperial Russia is doomed and with in all the old certainties. Trapped by the snow with Doig and Elizaveta are a motley collection of old aristocrats, their servants and hangers-on - and the two soldiers, one of whom Doig is convinced is a Bolshevik out to destroy them all.

James Fleming

Thomas Gage is a happy man. He has a fine house in Norfolk, two delightful children, a wife who brought with her a nice income from her father's paint firm, a Waterloo medal, and a painting on show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Then, a few months after Thomas Gage's fiftieth birthday, Julius Gooby enters his life. 
 
Mr Gooby is a man of the future, manager of the proposed North Norfolk Railway from Norwich to Cromer, and the route of the railway crosses Gage's land. With the railway comes tragedy, and Thomas Gage's life begins to unravel until, at the end, medal on his chest, he travels to London to watch the Duke of Wellington's funeral and to take his revenge. 
 
With Thomas Gage James Fleming has fashioned another historical fiction of the very first rank, a portrait of a good man undone by grief, by others' greed and, ultimately, by progress.

James Fleming

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