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Peter Thomas

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Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas is a retired principal lecturer, electronics design engineer and past President of the New Zealand Playwrights Association. Previous work includes fourteen stage plays and twelve text books. The Second Foot is his seventh novel.
Originally born in the UK he has spent half his life living with his wife and family on a small farm in the foothills of the Rimutaka Ranges. When they retired they lived aboard their cruising yacht based in the Marlborough Sounds for six years but have subsequently moved ashore and are now living in Waikawa Bay.
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Turn of the Tide Series

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Driftwood

A wounded family returns to the sanctuary of their ancestral whare. As family secrets become revealed seemingly unrelated events conspire to become a gathering storm. Dark secrets expose the scar tissue of human frailty. Like driftwood, emotions are swept in directions neither planned nor imagined but those that conspire have no concept of the tenacity of the new liaisons, nor of the influence of a tiny bronze mermaid on the minds of the social castaways.  As time runs out, the final conflict uses the whole of the pacific for its resolution.
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Tradewinds

Having refitted a one-hundred- year-old trading scow, a group of 3 men and 4 women operate the vessel as a sea-going hospital to supply simple medical services to remote Pacific Islands. While responding to an urgent call, they discover a ketch aground inside a coral reef. By offering assistance they begin to unravel the circumstances leading to the grounding and the disappearance of a female crew-member.
They become involved and a series of events are unleashed which threaten to overwhelm the scow. Meanwhile cracks are forming.
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 Turn of the Tide

Starting thousands of miles apart, two vessels converge in mid ocean. Aboard one vessel three fugitives are attempting to escape from the Indonesian police. The other boat crewed by two couples and a baby, caries medical supplies for a remote island hospital where hopeful refugees gather. But the Indonesian news is grim. Seamanship and intuitive cunning are the only tools available to turn the tide and restore hope to a new breed of Islanders.
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Forewarned

In the year 2063 chaotic world events are viewed from an undisturbed Pacific Island as tentacles of change probe the shoreline searching for a beach head. To counter the intrusion of sophisticated technology, sex is the primary weapon available in the island to uncover the abduction of children and the passage through the islands of shipments of cargo for ruthless racketeers.
But sex used as a weapon frequently backfires.


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Pushing Boundaries Trilogy

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A Step Too Far

I hope dear reader you’re not sitting on the bench being judgemental. If so, for a moment I’d like you to join me in the dock. Perhaps you’ll understand when I say the song of sun burnt days was so seductive it filled my brain and a compulsion stronger than me took control. But even as I took that route my subconscious told me the song would fade and too soon the days would shorten and in the evening I’d evolve into a loyal wife.
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The Dancing Gyspy

The “pub culture’ a 28 year old dairy farmer takes with him while he’s on the run from cows and a pregnant school-leaver equips him poorly when he becomes entangled with the sexual needs of three distinctly different women. Two are married and problems ricochet. Apart from the daunting tasks of understanding himself and working to carve a business out of native bush not the least of his additional problems is comprehending the emotional significance of a dancing gypsy tattooed on the arm of one of the women.
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The Second Foot

He replied with a question,'Have you ever watched someone walking?'
'Of course I have. What do you mean?'
'When we take a step, we're falling forward and the only reason we don't fall flat on our face is because we use the other foot. We regain our balance and take another step. If it's not progress, at least it's progression. In the natural world progression like that is called evolution. If we think the world's falling on its face it's because we don't know we have a second foot. Either that or we don't have the imagination to use it. To move forward we simply need to find our feet and walk into the future.'

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Driftwood
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A Step Too Far
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Forewarned
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The Dancing Gypsy
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The Second Foot
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Tradewinds
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Turn of the Tide
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