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Concrete Jungle is out

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Armed with an MBA, geologist Sam Harris is storming the City.

But has she swapped one jungle for another?

Forging a new career was never going to be easy, and Sam Harris soon discovers she has not escaped from the culture of misogyny and corruption that blighted her field career.

When her heroic past is revealed at a mining drinks party, she finally achieves the acceptance she has always craved. But being one of the boys is not the panacea she expected. Her due diligence on a project uncovers a scam, and she is presented with the stark choice of compromising her principles to keep her new position, or exposing the truth behind the façade.

Will she finally get what she wants or was it all a mirage?

Concrete Jungle is the final book of the Sam Harris Adventures and completes the saga. It is not a standalone as it incorporates threads from all the other books. If you like strong female protagonists, international adventure and financial thrillers, and have followed the series, you’ll love Sam’s final hurrah.

No Cell Coverage

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  • ‘Backwoods Museum
  • Road to Work
  • Local Church
  • Shade from 100 Degrees
  • Parched land awaits rains
  • Village goat
  • Washing day
  • There’s no grass
  • Cactus garden
  • Cactus flowers
  • Gaucho (Cowboy)
  • Donkeys

Hi Gang,

Thought you would enjoy these photos from Northern Brazil while you are waiting for Concrete Jungle. Only six weeks now and I’m struggling to finish in time. This is due to taking a work contract in Brazil to keep the wolf from the door. So if you haven’t already, please review my books and help me get more sales. I’d really appreciate the leg up.

Meanwhile, feel free to comment on the photos or ask me questions. Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to all of you.

PJ Skinner

The End is Nigh

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No, this isn’t another Halloween advertisement.  I just wanted to let you know that I’m writing Concrete Jungle, the final book of the Sam Harris Adventure Series. You can get it on pre-order right here.
I will be finishing a standalone novel about Ireland during the troubles called Rebel Green next, followed by a new series, so please stay subscribed if you wish to hear about these books.

It’s almost time for Digging Deeper

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Digging Deeper is based on my experiences in north-eastern Angola in 1998-99. We worked beside a project that was attacked by UNITA who shot some of the white managers and used others to carry their booty. The whole contract was a nightmare, especially since it was six months long with no break. The only relief as the odd Sunday football or rugby game on the solitary television, and clandestine fishing trips (forbidden for security purposes).

Sam Harris has taken the job, as I did, out of desperation for money. Like Sam, I was supposed to be based in the Capital, Luanda, but I found myself sent out to the provinces, near the UNITA base. Why didn’t I leave? Because they thought they could force me out. It became a battle of wills. I did six months, and, bonuses included, it paid for me to do an MBA. For me, it was worth it. I know it was crazy, but being a woman in that industry was always a compromise between swallowing casual sexism and the odd physical assault, and doing the job I trained for.

  • Luanda Seafront
  • Oil rig in Luanda Bay
  • My house
  • Laundry Ladies
  • Cassava plantation
  • Tiger Fish
  • Edison and Pibe

Digging Deeper is on Pre-Order for 31st of August. First reviews are in. Here is one I am particularly proud of:

‘Your writing (especially in Digging Deeper) HAS REACHED MY HEART, MY SOUL, AND ALL THE REST OF ME. (My spirit guides capitalized that and I agree).

Especially adorable are Pibe and Edison Jr. and the way Sam feels about them, and the way they feel about her. The Beatles were right: All You Need Is Love.

Digging Deeper is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious times a million!! It could be (and I think it should be) made into a movie.’

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Travels in Senegal

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I took these photos during a year I spent working in Senegal. I am using the experience as background for one section of book 7, the Concrete Jungle, which I am writing now. It will be the last book in the Sam Harris Adventure Series.

  • Our car got stuck crossing a river
  • A random bicycle in the bush
  • Termite hills
  • Lioness peeps out from the Bamboo
  • Clothes in the trees to ward of monkeys
  • Eid outfits for end of Ramadan
  • 45 celsius (113F)
  • 7 inch black scorpion

The Bonita Protocol is on sale

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Out today! ARC readers love this thriller. You will too. Get it here

‘The Sam Harris series just keeps getting better!’
‘And what I can say, but wow, wow, wow. Yet again, PJ has delivered a great adventure for Sam.’
‘I absolutely adored this book!’

An enigmatic boss. Suspicious results. Stock market shenanigans. Can Sam Harris get to the bottom of it before they silence her?

Geologist Sam Harris has been round the block, but she’s prone to nostalgia, so she snatches the chance to work in Sierramar, her old stomping ground. But she never expected to be working for a company that seems to be breaking all the rules.

When the analysis results from drilling are suspiciously high, Sam makes a decision that puts her life in peril. Can she blow the lid on the conspiracy before they shut her up for good?

The Bonita Protocol is the fifth book in the Sam Harris Adventure series. If you like gutsy heroines, complex twists and turns, and heart pounding action, then you’ll love PJ Skinner’s thrilling novel.

Buy the Bonita Protocol and have your own gold rush today