This crime thriller, based mainly in Tasmania, centers on Argo, a corrupt global network marketing corporation, and its outrageous underworld ally. Argo is laundering billions of heroin dollars but is tackled by heroic PI Blarney Pike. All seems lost when Argo frames Pike for murder and he is jailed, but with help from friends Pike counter-attacks.
Pike’s Pyramid reveals the clandestine inner workings of a particular US based network marketing organization, based on the author’s own experiences - and, will generate great interest from the worlds three million marketers as well as those who enjoy reading crime/thriller novels.
This is the first book in a series of 4 superb crime thrillers that take the reader to many parts of the world and feature hero and unique crime buster and family man, Blarney Pike, and his skilled friends, in the remote but extraordinary town of
Stanley, in Tasmania.
Forced to leave school in Tasmania aged 15 because of his father’s death, Michael Winston Tatlow worked trapping rabbits and snaring possums for their skins, then crewed a boat fishing for shark in the Southern Ocean.
The teenage state surf swimming champion, performing alone, saved five people from drowning.
After representing Tasmania in Sydney, Mike became a feature writer and book reviewer for Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph; then the paper’s foreign correspondent in seven countries. Back in Sydney he was Sunday Telegraph News Editor and Acting Editor . He was Chief-of-Staff of the Daily Telegraph before becoming Pictorial Editor.
After returning to Tasmania and as strategist for a top political party, then ABC Television’s senior journalist, Michael began writing books. Pike’s Pyramid was his first of a series of five crime thrillers. Four of them are written but have not yet been published. Six of his other books have been published. He has a son and daughter and six grandchildren.
Pike’s Pyramid reveals the pyramidic nature of some network marketing organisations, particularly one that was corrupt.
Pike’s Pyramid crime fighter Blarney Pike was not even a policeman. His big civilian helper, ex-German Otto Zelinski, was a former slaughterer of Soviet spies.
A feature of Pike’s Pyramid was the jailing and a dramatic court hearing of murder charges against hero Blarney Pike.
Gorgeous American CIA agent Barbara Stacey flew to Tasmania to combat criminal marketer Argo with Blarney, and later organised a mass shooting in Sicily.
