Mud Mafia ebook | Ross Richdale | 9781877438370

The Mud Mafia are three ordinary teenagers; Kelsie, Laura and Jason who have two extraordinary adventures on offshore islands of New Zealand.

Abduction in the Pines

Kelsie, Laura and Jason are on a bike ride through a pine forest when a sudden summer storm arrives. A man arrives in a SUV and says he was sent to pick them up by Laura’s mother. However everything goes horribly wrong when they are abducted and held for ransom by environmental terrorists. They are flown to an offshore island in an ancient Catalina flying boat. There, unknown to the terrorists, a hermit Glenn lives with his dog, Blackie. Is his curiosity about the flying boat of any help to Kelsie and her friends?

White Water Overhead

In this second story Kelsie, Laura and Jason visit Glenn on his island the following Christmas holidays. He shows them an old World War 2 submarine base on the island in a huge ocean cave. However, it has been recently used. While they are exploring the base a submarine arrives and the trio, together with Blackie the dog are caught and forced onto it. Their capture is seen by Glenn but he is powerless to stop it.

After a teaching career, Ross Richdale now writes full time. He has completed 39 novels, both contemporary and science fiction novels, most of which are on line as ebooks . He lives in the small university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand and is married with three children. 

When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing and wandering in the countryside.. 

Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher. Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.