No Defence

If in Heaven all truth does lie

And one has no choice but to die

So speed the day so I might see

All the love that’s been lost to me.

 

If love being lost is to close that door

And Heaven is not my answer nor my cure,

Then a shattered heart will never mend

And my decisions are ones I cannot defend.

 

In pain with desperation and disbelief.

I seek the Heavenly answer to bring me relief,

But will that relief bring an end

To a heart that’s broken with no chance to mend.

 

Because mend it must before time be

Completely over and closed to me.

 

© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.

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Spanish Edition

Courtesy of my publishing company The Desolate Garden is now available in Spanish.

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Win A $50 Amazon Gift Card

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A Chance To Win A $50 Amazon Gift Card.
There are several sections on this link of writers you may know. I’m in the Thrillers section. All of us are asking for followers of one description or another, or like greedy me; for followers on two social platforms, Amazon and BookBub.
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BESTSELLING NOVEL

What Happened In Vienna, Jack? is now a No 1 Bestselling novel on 4 Amazon sites: America, UK, Canada and Australia. Thanks to your generosity, coupled with other readers worldwide I now have this—

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From The Bow Street Society

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AMAZON AUTHOR CENTRAL PAGE

 

The Writers’ Wing would like to welcome its next inmate, espionage and mystery author, 

Daniel Kemp.

Daniel Kemp, ex-London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver never planned to be a writer, but after his first novel —The Desolate Garden — was under a paid option to become a $30 million film for five years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company what else could he do?

Nowadays he is a prolific storyteller, and although it’s true to say that he mainly concentrates on what he knows most about; murders laced by the intrigue involving spies, his diverse experience of life shows in the short stories he compiles both for adults and children.

He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication, been described as —the new Graham Green — by a managerial employee of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of signing events, and he has appeared on ‘live’ television.

Between 20th-24th May 2018, readers can enter a Kindle Giveaway for What happened in Vienna, Jack? 

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THE INTERROGATION

Who is your cellmate, and why? 

Winston Churchill….Why? Just to hear him speak.

Which four books would you choose to pass the time with, and why? 

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold—-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—-A Looking Glass War —-The Little Drummer Girl…. Why? To ask John le Carré how he wrote so many wonderful stories.

Which one of your own literary creations would you choose to visit you, and why? 

Jack Price from What Happened In Vienna, Jack?–Why? To apologise for killing him off!

 

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To Write Or Not To Write?

To have one book published is an achievement similar to have climbed a mountain, but after a while, it seems as though you are walking the street with only one shoe on your feet. To have two books published balances your step and the thought of stopping with that one can satisfy some ambition unless the insatiable desire to tell stories is too strong to stop; until—but is there ever an until?

© 2018 Danny Kemp All rights reserved

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To Your Heart or To Your Head?

If I were to compare the things that I’ve done right

To the things where I’ve failed

Then the failures would come out on top.

But there has been more I’ve attempted when the chances arose

Than those, I ignored and did not.

 

To look back, to assess, to judge what was I

Is an impossible task to attempt.

As decisions were based on only what I knew

Not prejudiced by future contempt.

 

To have assessed the future with only that present eye

Demanded wisdom beyond my grasp,

But I tell you truly as I stand here today

It would still be to my heart that I would I clasp.

 

© 2018 Danny Kemp All rights reserved

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A New Novella

A Mystery

THE STORY THAT HAD NO BEGINNING

Four to dinner in Chelsea—-Plus the ghost!

But how did he die?

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99p until midnight PST May 3

There is no morality to be found in evil.

But to recognise that which is truly evil

One must forget the rules of morality.

A STORY OF POWER

#Murder #Mystery #Espionage

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