Ashley Stokes, consultant, The Literary Consultancy "It's a highly readable, affecting, dramatic, powerful and highly relevant story that's swollen with compassion and conviction..."
Russell James writing in Shots ezine Ex-Reuters bureau chief in Beirut, Fullerton is excellently placed to deliver this bitterly splendid read, his best to date.
Nicole de Weirdt, Essex libraries "I found it gripping, harrowing, moving and very disturbing."
John Pilger, postcard to author "It's a powerful, original work and I look forward to seeing in the shops."
Philip Oakes, writing in the Literary Review, July 1, 2004 "The real stuff, as always, from Fullerton, with no easy solutions, no false heroics."
Book Of The Month, Choice Magazine (July 2004) "With authentic settings and insights, this fast-paced thriller is a gripping read."
Morning Star, July 12 "Eschews both the unthinking, pro-establishment 'neutrality' of the mainstream thriller and the false, cool detachment of the noir trendies."

Reem is twenty, bright and strikingly attractive. Nick is twenty-seven and determined to do what he can to make the world a better place. But when they meet in a fashionable bar it is no accident. For Reem has completed her training as a so-called terrorist - under the tutelage of the myesterious Ustaz, or teacher, and Nicholas Lorimer is her first assignment.
The UN has sent Nick to Beirut to help trace thousands of Lebanese missing during the country's civil war and Nick has what Reem needs: access from the city's besieged western sector to the mainly Christian east, and to a notorious right-wing warlord with his sights set on the country's presidency. The Ustaz wants El-Hami killed before he aligns the Arab country with the United States and Israel, plunging the entire region into turmoil. For Reem, the fight is personal: she has lost her family and home. She volunteers for the ultimate mission - a suicide attack. Nick's love for Reem explodes the bubble of foreignness that has kept him insulated from the war. Once he realises the truth, he must choose between Reem and what his contacts at the British embassy insist is his duty...

John Fullerton worked for Reuters in the Middle East for several years. He was Beirut bureau chief during the Lebanon civil war, spent nearly three years in Cairo in the 1980s and was Middle East Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Nicosia. He has reported from 38 countries in all, including Iraq, Syria, Algeria and Yemen, and has covered twelve wars. He lives in London.

Coruscating and scintillating, SPIN is a novel that cuts behind the headlines and those who make them - a stiletto-sharp, hilarious satire that exposes just how the corridors of power are really at work. It's the year 2011. The Party in power, the New Project Party is on a moral revival campaign and Selwyn Knox, the recently appointed minister for the Department for Society, is at its helm. Sonya Mair, his political adviser, is helping him call the shots - as well as helping him with some more personal matters... Together they've selected the team. Very carefully. In fact, they've got dossiers on every last member... Sir Robert Nottridge, Permanent Secretary: Eton, Cambridge, married, no children - or so his wife thinks. Christopher Brody, director of policy: a helpless gambler with debts up to his eyeballs and two mortgages. Nigel Tonbridge, director of strategy and communications: ex-journo and keeper of some dark family secrets - as well as some disturbing political ones that might just taint Saint Selwyn... But for now, the team better do as they're told, and get down to administering morality. Meanwhile, back at Downing Street, PM Andy Sheen is suffering a few smears of his own, and his right hand man, Charlie McDonald, must quickly dispatch an official to Cambridge to "rescue data" and hunt down the man behind the allegations....