Blue Wolf Reviews

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  • A Surfer’s Guide to Property Investing

    A Surfer’s Guide to Property Investing

    To invest or not to invest in property can be a serious question to ask and can have some very positive benefits to lifestyle when done with knowledge, a steady nerve and a desire to make a change in both your lifestyle and financial circumstances.

    Paul Glossop shares his journey to success through property development in A Surfers Guide to Property Investing, explaining the rules of successful property investing from a thought to a reality, based on his experiences throughout the years.

    Written in a comfortable and easy to understand style, he returns to the years of his childhood growing up in Liverpool, south-western Sydney, where unbeknown to him the seeds of his future were being sown by his mother.

    An early career flirting with architecture and then teaching saw him looking towards buying into the real estate market at a time when, in Australia, the country was booming, unemployment was low and property was attainable at reasonable prices.

    His first purchase, the research he and wife Kim put into where and what to buy, saw his passion solidify to a point where he gave a up a well-paying position with a pharmaceutical company to become a self-employed property developer; a decision which has over the years, paid off handsomely.

    He shares the highs, the lows, the traps created when research is not carried out extensively and when things do not always go according to plan due to unforeseen market influences, what to do next – to hold or fold!

    Based on his love of surfing he uses the analogy of heading out for a surf. Time is spent searching the waves, looking at the surrounding elements and so much more before the board is even put in the water, then applied these strategies to his love of real estate.

    The chapters of the book discuss all aspects of real estate development from where to begin and most importantly, developing the right mindset to finance, location, renovation, commercial property, risk assessment and just about everything needed to be known or understood about successful property investment.

    A Surfers Guide to Property Investing is the perfect book for people considering taking the first step in today’s challenging property marketplace, or for those who have been dabbling or have already begun to build their portfolios and may be seeking a fresh way forward.

  • Flight Risk

    Flight Risk

    Michael McGuire draws on his many years as a journalist to bring to life the very real scenario that unfolds in Flight Risk, his second gripping thriller, loosely based around the disappearance of Malaysia Airline Flight 370 which vanished from the skies in March 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard the aircraft. He broadens this out to an almost ‘what if’ situation, which could, in reality, happen.

    When Ted Anderson gets called in to the office to see the Boss, disrupting his Saturday morning lie in, he dresses in what he considers his usual uniform: shirt from K-Mart, blue jeans, worn Blundstones and faithful brown leather jacket. Classy, almost ‘stylistic’, but definitely him.

    Bob Sorensen talks to him about a new assignment; he is none too happy to be returning to the field as a government agent aka spy, possibly having to return to Indonesia on the track of what appears to be on the surface, nothing more than a simple, overdue Garuda Airlines passenger flight from Sydney to Jakarta.

    Somehow Ted discovers he has said yes to this assignment, which he considers is overreaction by the top brass, boards a Government plane to an airfield in the far reaches of Western Australia, and begins what turns out to be a decent into complete depravity, insanity and planned destruction on a world scale never before undertaken.

    After being pulled off the assignment in disgrace, after getting involved with the Americans in Jakarta, finding himself in New York, at their say so, he is waiting for a return flight to Australia, e when in the largely silent JFK airport, he notices a cleaner leave what appears to be a small phone or card on a bench. A pilot carrying a Tupperware container, walks past, casually collecting the item and putting it in his pocket.

    Making a spur of the minute he decides to follow what he considers as a set of very suspicious circumstances, given that there are now four planes missing, finding himself boarding a flight to Kiev with Ukraine International Airlines, in a first-class seat paid for on the Company Credit Card. His instinct’s, which have served him well in the past, are screaming that this is the next plane to go missing and he wants to find what or who or how this is going to happen.

    Riveting and totally suspenseful this a flight you will not want to join – the flight to hell and beyond as terrifyingly real revelations come to light in this engrossing thriller based around fanaticism, religion, hatred and the obsessive desire for world domination.

    Flight Risk, a gripping modern-day spy thriller with a storyline very easy to relate to in this modern world of technology and tragedy lives as an almost daily occurrence.

    Brilliantly conceived and created this is a storyline that will make you think twice before you board that next flight!