1990. A young teacher volunteers for an aid mission and finds herself in the company of rogues - and the target of mercenaries.

Heartbreak the first novel in The Lenka Trilogy by John Righten.

The Lenka Trilogy completes my trio of trilogies that covers the most tumultuous century in our history. The second novel, Resilience, will be released in November 2020. The last novel in the trilogy, Reflection, will be released in November 2021. My final novel, The Englander, a separate novel based on one of the key characters in The Lenka Trilogy, will be released November 2022.

Rogues chronology:

2012: The Benevolence of Rogues, an outrageous autobiography covering the author’s encounters with numerous roguish characters

The Rogues Trilogy, 1930s pre-war epic adventure thrillers:

2013: Churchill’s Rogue, shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Inaugural Adventure Awards.

2014: The Gathering Storm

2015: The Darkest Hour

The Lochran Trilogy, 1960s adventure thrillers:

2016: Churchill’s Assassin

2017: The Last Rogue.

2018: The Alpha Wolves.

The Lenka Trilogy, 1990s adventure thrillers:

2019: Heartbreak

Resilience to be released 2020

Reflection to be released 2021

and the one-off explosive thriller, The Englander, to be released 2022

Oh, and let’s not forget, the cheeky little sibling to the Rogues novels,The ‘Pane’ of Rejection, a short play that takes a wry look at writing and publishing though an acerbic encounter between the author and a critic. Released in 2017.