Peter Watson Jenkins

A thrilling adventure by land and sea and....well...read it to find out!

I read this novel after meeting the very courteous Mr. Jenkins on twitter @KornerKaff. I must admit that halfway through the book, I could not put it down. I had to shoo the kids and wife away to continue reading uninterrupted.

My initial impression of Mr. Jenkins novel was that the main character, a 60 recent retiree named Duncan, was a coward. Duncan continually does the Chicken Little routine "The sky is falling". Duncan is driven by a personal conviction that a terrorist-fundamentalist group threatening to bring destruction to the heathen British will make good on their threats at any moment. He tries to convince friends and family to flee, but it's an inconvenient thing, they don't listen. Duncan goes it alone, and so begins his great escape adventure.

I found the pace a little slow at first. The author gives us a very detailed picture of Duncan's life and memories of his deceased wife. I don't want to give away too much, but I'll say that when the proverbial shit-hits-the-fan in the plot, I was hooked, and the pace rolled right along perfectly.

In the end, Duncan's metal is sorely tested, and he's found to be a far braver individual than he ever believed himself to be. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey discovering what kind of man he really is. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who wants an exceptionally written thrilling tale of adventure and perseverance through adversity.… (meer)

Thirty young adult children of foreign diplomats go to a lakeside summer camp in upstate New York. The YA adventure is a coming-of-age story with a strong romance between Kay, a native Canadian Mohawk girl and Thomas, the son of Kenya’s ambassador to Washington. They share a common passion for music. One of the young adults is a Saudi prince. The FBI has discovered a plot to capture him for a ransom, so FBI agents are assigned to guard him. With four new friends they are assigned a hut and tent. The 3 boys gather wood for the evening fire while the 3 girls spear fish in the lake for supper. They are having a great time then Hans, a racist, is nasty towards Thomas. During a a table tennis match the prince’s ornamental dagger is stolen: it turns up in Thomas’ bag. Kay reports all this to Suzy, a friend in New York where they both live. Tweeting is quite new in 2008, but Kay’s little TwitterBug does a great job. Tweets are fully explained. Two of their friends have sex together in a vacant hut while Kay and Thomas find they are falling in love. They decide to go for a walk down the road outside the camp. This is when trouble starts. They are in real danger, but Kay’s tweets are a lifeline in a tough situation.… (meer)

This book seeks to answer the question, “why do bad things happen to good people?” It is a mixture of narratives illustrating the difficult challenges met by the individual souls, and concise comments by a variety of senior souls.
The Masters of the Spirit World have recruited 40 souls who tackled difficult lessons during their past life, and 10 experts (including the Buddha) to comment on these experiences. This gives a clear understanding of how and why we freely choose, in advance of incarnating, negative lessons that will come to us as practical challenges throughout our life. This book goes to the very heart of our modern practice of spirituality.… (meer)

The title says it all. This book tells the story of what metaphysics calls "transition." This is the soul's passing through the moment of physical death to the next stage of its existence. Twenty eight souls, channeled by Toni Ann Winninger, face questions by the Editor, Peter Watson Jenkins. In the course of their answers they tell their own story. The twenty five chapters all have a different take on death: some are simple quiet deaths in sleep, others in dramatic, even brutal, circumstances. They include children, a girl drowned in a tsunami, twins burned to death in a house fire. There is the story of 9/11 from the viewpoint of an office worker who died in the North Tower. A drunk drives over the edge of a cliff; a woman dies in a back-street abortion. There are also wide differences in what happens afterwards: a woman dances with her deceased husband through a field of flowers, but a serial killer imagines himself in hell and experiences the torment. The editor allows the narratives to speak for themselves. This they do with such a punch that readers of the first copies have made the claim that their thinking about life and death has been changed forever.… (meer)