Even more fun when accompanied by our grandchildren. Mind you at 6 and 4 their favourite is still MacDonalds !!

I recently gave a short talk at the inaugural Balfron Book Festival. The organisers had done a brilliant job with a wide range of events for all ages. Next year I expect it will be even better.

2 weeks ago Cheryl Peebles, a journalist from The Courier, came along to discuss the prostrate cancer treatment I had. We chatted about a number of things and she has written a very nice article. (click for link to online version)  

Finally I just want to draw your attention to a special offer Dorothy has put on the website : The first 3 Tears books for £16 inclusive of P&P..

Thanks for the nice messages re my health.  It is a slow business recovering from a stroke but I am improving each month with the help of Emma, my amazing physiotherapist.

Best wishes and enjoy the autumn sunshine.

Paul

Paul has resumed his role as Councillor at Stirling Council and hopes to be back at his regular Sunday book-signing at the Chatelherault Market in the Spring. Last week one of his readers told us that she had just watched Royals in Wartime on Channel 5 and was surprised to see Paul taking about his time serving with Prince Chales.

https://www.channel5.com/show/royals-in-wartime/season-1/episode-2-8020b9f8-7b81-46f1-8884-a2834714da40  and Paul is on from 4.30 min on episode 2.

Today and tomorrow (Sun, Mon)  we have both A Million Tears and the first Gumshoe as free Kindle downloads.

We are also participating in the Smashwords sale for other ebook formats. A number of my books will be available as part of a promotion on Smashwords from Dec 12^th to January 1 as part of their 2024 End of Year Sale!  Just click https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/

If you wish any signed and personalised books just call on 01360 316335 or email: henkepd@gmail.com or order online on www.henke.co.uk.  As always I am happy to gift wrap and send direct to your recipient.

We will include a free signed copy of The Tears of War and Peace with every order.

I thought it was about time I brought you all up to date with what’s been going on. I am delighted to let you know that Vendetta is now available as an e-book and will be available on Amazon from 28th August.

Also last year (May 2022) I decided to take a last tilt at windmills and stand in the local election. I won and became a councillor for Ward 2 Stirlingshire, an area stretching from Strathblane to Fintry. I hadn’t realised how much work was involved if the job was to be done properly nor how much I would enjoy it.

One of the most common comments I received whilst campaigning was the notion that out here in the rural areas of Stirlingshire we were ignored by the council. I agreed. It was one of the reasons I stood for election. There are a dozen delightful villages scattered across the area connected by country roads which leave much to be desired.

To walk, cycle or e-bike along them means risking injury or even death – which sounds melodramatic. The notion of cycling with my grandchildren from Balfron (where I live) to Killearn (where they live) fills me with dread! Yet think how pleasant it would be if we had cycle paths and walkways criss-crossing the whole area, connecting the villages. It would certainly encourage people to be out and about and enjoying our countryside instead of using their cars.

I am cognisant of a simple fact. When a problem is brought to me it may appear to be trivial but for the person involved that problem is of great importance. I always treat it as such and do all that I can to put matters write. The downside to being a Councillor is that I have no time to write. With 20 books I suspect it’s time to hang up my spurs. I am though, still doing a weekly book-signing. On a Sunday I pack up the car and head to the Chatelherault Market near Hamilton which showcases the best of hand-made products from designers and producers across Scotland! Please do drop by and say hello if you are in the area.

A Million Tears will be available as a FREE Kindle download from Friday 25th- Monday 28th August.

Recently I was asked the order in which the two series of my books should be read.

The “Tears” series should be read as follows:-

• A Million Tears
• The Tears of War and Peace
• Silent Tears
• Tears Until Dawn
• Shadow of a Tear.

All 5 novels are available in paperback as well as e-books. The first two are also available as audio books.

The TIFAT series (The International Force Against Terrorism) were written in the following order:-

• Debacle (x)
• Mayhem
• Chaos (x)
• Havoc
• Turmoil
• Corruption
• Anarchy
• Retribution

All the books are available as e-books and paperbacks apart from the 2 with (x) after them which  are not available in paperback.

Shortly the new TIFAT book, Vendetta, will be released. When it is I shall e-mail the information. There are other books available as e-books, independent of either series, as well as 4 audio books.

Vendetta will be my 20^th published novel – where have the years gone !!

I prefer llegitimi non carborundum which sounds like an ancient saying but in fact was first penned during WWII by British Intelligence.

Both sayings should be taken to heart. They will make us stronger and more able to deal with challenges we face throughout life. Now for a short anecdote about an event that really did change my life.

After I stopped offshore working I ended up, by a quirk of fate, in financial services. I was self employed, working for a Life Assurance company on a commission only basis.

Every month the company produced a ranked list of sales. One name was consistently at the top. His name was John Crossman who regularly earned over £100,000 pa. My personal target for my first year was £14,000. If I achieved that sum I would get to go to the company conference held in a first class hotel with an overnight stay and dinner. Having come from a Royal Naval background, I had never worked for a company that showered so much largesse on its workforce (sic). I was ambitious and was determined to qualify.

However, if I reached the next target of £22,500 we would get to go on a convention for 5 days in some exotic location. This was called The Falcon Club which nobody in Scotland had achieved in their first year. John Crossman was invited to our Glasgow office to share his sales techniques. Fifty of us were in the room to hear what he had to say.

He began, ‘I’m here to tell you the secret of how to succeed in this business”.

We all sat up. Here it was. The secret! What was he about to say?

What he said was, ‘There is no secret.’

Forty-nine people sunk back down despondently. Except for one. You guessed it. Me.

John explained what needed doing, giving the exact same message as management had for the three months I had been with the company. So I did as John said and reached Falcon Club level before the year end. Dorothy and I went on out first convention and had a great time.

But here’s the rub. I’d done it but then promptly forgot the lesson. I spent the first four or five months of the following year not doing what I needed to do to repeat my success. At some point I realised it and had to pull my finger out, get back to basics and do the required activity.

Both lessons were needed. The first to show me what I had to do, the second to show me I had to keep doing it.

This applies to everything in life, like starting to write a book but also continuing the process to the end.

I went on to be pretty successful in financial services which was just as well. Being an author not being the most lucrative occupation in the world.

Passion, commitment and focussed application will lead to success. It also helps the happiness quotient as the feeling of a job well done is good for our mental well being.

You probably heard recently about the couple who ordered a bottle of wine in a restaurant priced at £260 (the poor things) but were given one that sold at over £4,000 by mistake. That reminds me of what happened to me a few decades ago.

I was a sub-lieutenant on board a County Class Destroyer, HMS Antrim.

We were on a flag waving world tour and one of our ports of call was Massawa in Ethiopia.

We were holding a special dinner for Princess Anne (who had flown out for the event) and Emperor Haile Selassie. He stepped down as Emperor in 1974 and was assassinated in 1975.

It was February 10th 1973. I remember the date as it was the day before my birthday.

When the Princess arrived we stood on the flight deck and saluted. Then the Emperor arrived and we did it again. Surprisingly he proved to be a small man wearing a large pith helmet.

Myself and most of the other officers were considered too junior to mix with such exalted company and we were sent to a local hotel. The restaurant was on the roof and we had, courtesy of the RN, a meal of spaghetti bolognaise. The influence of Italy was still writ large across the country and we indulged in some robust red wine.

We returned to the ship just before midnight in accordance with orders.

I’m coming to the wine part.

The wardroom was immaculate except around the room were open bottles of wine. We helped ourselves. I remember nothing of the quality or taste. All I do know was that these were wines suitable for a Princess and an Emperor! A close friend on the ship was the wine officer and had been responsible for the wines. He knew what they cost. Each bottle was about what I earned in a month. However, it was the liquid equivalent of pearls before swine.

I thought it was about time I brought you up to date with what is going on in my life. That is, apart from my fictional activities of diving, parasailing, shooting terrorists and generally saving the world from the bad guys!

What a happy world I live in with such a vivid imagination! Although, like some readers have said, it’s a shame some of it isn’t true.

Yesterday evening I went to a workshop about using video to promote a business or in my case to expand my readership.

It was very interesting. As a result we will be establishing a YouTube channel where I intend launching videos on subjects as diverse as “How to do a book-signing” and “Writing descriptive text to paint a scene” and “How to use Kindle and ACX”.

Luckily Dorothy was with me as I only understood one in two words. That’s not to say I didn’t understand the words used I just didn’t understand what they meant!  It was a case of Morecombe playing the piano and Andre Previn telling him he wasn’t playing the right notes.  His famous reply, of course, was that he was playing the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. A brilliant quip from a brilliant comedian.

Phoenix Rising will shortly be available as an audio book, produced by narrator William Sturdevant. This is the third audio of mine that William has narrated – we have had great feedback re the audios of Gumshoe and the Seventh Circle.  I really enjoyed listening to Phoenix Rising (if that is not too boastful).  It is years since I wrote it and it made me think about doing another book about Stephen Yorke and his teenage stepson Dom. Watch this space.

Right now I am working on a new TIFAT thriller.  With our daughter due to give birth any day now I need the distraction!

I recently stayed somewhere and found:

• – the staff were wonderful
• – food was mediocre but plentiful
• – the beds were extremely uncomfortable

You won’t find it on TripAdvisor though. The name of the place? Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

I was in for a heart operation having my mitral valve fixed. The job seems to have gone well and I am now at home recovering. I hope to be out and about book-signing before Christmas.

I know the NHS gets criticised but I honestly belief we are so lucky to have this universal health care.  The dedication of our doctors and nurses is first-class.  At every stage of the process I felt I was treated as an individual and that nothing was too much trouble.

I have had many “Get Well” cards for which I am grateful. Then it occurred to me the message behind the cards. They weren’t aimed at me. They were for Dorothy. In effect telling her the sooner I stop being a pathetic invalid the better. And of course I’m milking it for all I its worth.

Seriously though I couldn’t ask for better care and in reality I have my own private nurse.

Just before I went into hospital we took delivery of the reprinted copies of MAYHEM.  This has been republished by Methuen and is available whenever you care to contact me. They have done a great job with the cover – very impacting. Don’t forget Christmas isn’t that far away. Dorothy also points out that Mayhem is her favourite Nick Hunter book.  I think the Nick/Ruth dynamic may influence this as action thrillers are not normally Dorothy’s preferred genre.

Anyway, hope to see some of you in the weeks leading up to Christmas.  Although I want to go Rock ‘n Rolling next weekend Dorothy says we can’t. She’s too tired from looking after me!

Isn’t this glorious.  As I was driving through the West Stirlingshire countryside this morning on my way to a book-signing event at Merchant Square in Glasgow, I thought how lucky we are to live in such breath-taking countryside.  The grass and trees are a beautiful rich green – verdant is the word that sprang to mind.  And of course that is because this current heatwave is the exception to our normal weather.  So when the Scottish summer drizzle returns (and it will!) just remember this is what keeps our gardens and landscape so lush.

But whilst we have the sunshine, enjoy it, relax and read or listen to a good book.  I have always loved listening to radio plays and comedies.  Old Harry’s Game with Andy Hamilton is one of the funniest radio programmes ever broadcast.  And for Father’s Day this year I received “Claire in the Community” another hilarious BBC comedy.  In the last year I have also discovered the pleasure of listening to my favourite books. We are very impressed with Audible – the Amazon company which specialises in audio books.  Great to hear that they now provide members with unlimited listening to original, short audio programmes, documentaries and serialised dramas.  I will definitely be making the most of these.

The GUMSHOE trilogy is now available via Audible as well as A MILLION TEARS.

I think you will really like listening to the Gumshoe narrator – William L. Sturdevant. I had listened to lots of actors who auditioned but as soon as we heard William, Dorothy and I said – “That is Frank O’Brian”!!  If you have not read the Gumshoe stories these are about a 1940’s private investigator in New York.  Different to my other genres but people seem to like the character.

To give the audience the best deal, we have put all 3 stories on one audio called THE GUMSHOE FILES.  If you sign up to Audible you can download this as your first free monthly download.  Ideal for taking on holiday or for relaxing in the garden. Mayhem and The Seventh Circle are also in production – I will let you know when these are available.

I am out and about during July, August and September and as always would be delighted to see you if you are at any of the events (full list on www.henke.co.uk).

Enjoy the summer!

Regards

Paul

First of all my new website will be up and running within the next fortnight. And for those who were wondering, yes, it will be mobile responsive. I would also rejoice at the news if I knew what it meant!

I don’t know about you guys but have you ever wondered how much our language has changed in the last few decades. New words and phrases have been showering down upon us since the world wide web and the digital age blanketed us. Bring back parchment and the quill I say – or at least a Parker 51 fountain pen like the one my parents gave me when I passed my 11 plus. I still use it today!

Also this weekend A Million Tears and  Gumshoe I, The Van Owen Case are free on Amazon.

A Million Tears is doing well as an audio book and we are in the middle of producing the Gumshoe stories (3 of them) as well as Mayhem as audio downloads on Amazon.

A very Happy Easter to you all and enjoy your chocolate.

My recommendation to all is to bunker down, have a coffee/tea/glass of wine/large whisky (whatever takes your fancy) but most importantly with a good book to read. Alternatively, a good book to listen to as A Million Tears is now available as an audio book from Audible. It’s narrated by yours truly though my dulcet Welsh tones don’t quite have the timbre and depth of Richard Burton!  Audible also have a special deal if you take out a subscription – I believe you get the first book free.  The book is unabridged and almost 20 hours of listening!

My latest novel, “Retribution”, a TIFAT thriller is also available from any good bookshop or directly from me.

Happy reading and stay safe and warm.

Regards

Paul

A MILLION TEARS has been produced as an audio book and is available on audible.co.uk as well as on Amazon.

The story is unabridged and is nearly 20 hours long! The narrator has a sophisticated and compelling voice albeit with a Welsh accent – ME!!!

I have found it is most peculiar to hear my voice reading an audio novel.   However other people have told me I come across well though I am certainly not in the Richard Burton league.  The whole process was quite labour intensive and surprisingly tiring. I doubt I would have persevered had it not been for the skill and tenacity of our producer Philip Marno.  Not to mention his patience when dealing with yours truly!

Also, RETRIBUTION, my new TIFAT thriller, has been published by Methuen Publishing Ltd. It will shortly be available on Amazon but in the meantime you can order signed copies directly from me. I hadn’t realised until I saw the book how big it was –  529 pages.

At Christmas Dorothy and I received a restaurant voucher for a meal plus taster wines at a restaurant called 6 by Nico from our children. So at the end of the second week in January we booked a night at the Radisson and enjoyed a superb meal at the restaurant. There were 6 courses each with a separate wine chosen by the restaurant to compliment the food. It was a most enjoyable evening. What better way to spend a dreich couple of January days in Scotland.

I am currently spending weekends at Merchant Square in Glasgow and will continue to do so whenever I am not at an Agricultural or Vintage Steam Engine Show. It is a beautiful building with a very extensive range of high quality crafts – I am delighted they accepted my application to be there.

If you enjoy audible books or if you are new to them but fancy giving them a try please check out A Million Tears and let me know what you think. Also I would appreciate if you spread the word to any audio book listeners that you know.   Paul

That’s the moan out of the way, now for some good news.

The new TIFAT book is being published by Methuen on 18^th December. It is titled Retribution and deals with the smuggling of people into Europe. As is the case with the other books in the series there are plenty of twists and turns and enough excitement to keep you page-turning.

Also A Million Tears is being launched as an audio book! It has been accepted by the organisation that puts these things up for downloading – what a contradiction in terms – and will be available in 10 to 14 days on Audible and iTunes. The reader has a soothing voice with a distinct Welsh accent – ME!!

So I hope those of you who listen to it will enjoy the story.

Thanks to the producer Philip Marno who has done an amazing job. It was a much bigger project than Dorothy or I thought. We will now be investigating making one of the Nick Hunter books into an audio book sometime in the New Year.

The Candidate was also published in October – KINDLE ONLY I am afraid at least for now.

There were two major events in the year. The first and happiest was our beautiful daughter Louise was married. Her husband David is a kind and generous guy and someone who makes an entertaining dinner guest! (The highest accolade I can think of).

The second major incident was on the weekend of the wedding, just as the festivities were over, I slipped and fractured my back at the 12^th vertebrae. All three bones protecting my spinal cord were broken and the doctors told me that in theory I should not be walking. However, my cord remained intact and I am back to normal apart from an odd ache if I carry heavy weights or walk too far.

The events could scarcely be more diametrically opposed – a strong reminder that life is unpredictable and we have to make the most of every day!

Thank to everyone who has given support and feedback over the year.  Also the very kind reviews I have received on Amazon.  I really appreciate the fact that readers have taken the time to do this.

Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy ‘reading’ New Year.

It means the fire is lit every evening and the central heating is on around 16.00 – I’m warm blooded, you see. Really I was meant for sunnier climes!

But the Scottish climate never fails to amaze – was a beautiful sunny day so Dorothy and I decided to do another stretch of the West Highland Way. This is a 96 mile walk from just north of Glasgow to Fort William. Lots of people walk it in a week.

Dorothy and I decided to do it in short bursts and started in 2011 !!. We may well get into the record books as the longest elapsed time to completion. And at the rate we are going the last part may be with zimmer frames for support.

As my excuse I tend to be book signing every weekend during the summer months. But the other reason is we only walk on sunny days when there are no midges. So yesterday was perfect.

We drove to Tarbet and took the ferry to Rowardennan.

The weather was warm and sunny, the ferry small and cosy, the free coffee more than acceptable. We met a very nice Scot called Peter. Peter now lives in New Zealand but had returned to Scotland to visit family and friends.  As we (i.e. Dorothy) had forgotten a camera, Peter kindly took our picture as we got off the ferry at Rowerdennan.

From there we walked to Inversnaid – 7 miles! It was a case of up hill and down dale, walking through the woods.The walk was exhilarating and at the end of the 7 miles we had a glow of achievement. I know, I know! Not much of an achievement, not when compared to my sister-in-law, Patricia who can climb a Munro (hill over 3,000ft) before breakfast. Or Nick and Ruth yomping 20 miles through the desert in Mayhem.

Still, Dorothy and I enjoyed the day, we are now over a third of the way with only 62 miles to go.

Anyway, I’m out and about most weekends from now to Christmas. Please take a look at my schedule on the website  and if you have the time, I hope to see you at one of the events.

The BBQ is lit, the meat is sizzling, the salad is ready oh, and you’ve got a good book to read.

You see what good fiction I am able to write when I can dream up such a scenario?

The reality? Freezing cold, shivering with a blanket over the shoulders, the BBQ alight under an umbrella (to prove what a hardy race we are), a hot toddy to hand, with only one redeeming feature in the whole scenario – a good book.

For those of us who are discombobulated by the weather (for those who don’t know the word is the antonym of combobulated) we have a special offer. To help you get through this long, dreich ( a great Scottish word) summer, we are giving a free copy of The Seventh Circle this weekend.  Just CLICK HERE to get your copy.

The story won’t help with the burnt meat, the lousy weather, the noisy and grumbling kids unable to go out and play but it will take you on a roller-coaster of a ride where the end is, as always, a happy one.

I’d be delighted to see you as I am out and about at events this summer. Over the next 6 weeks I will be in Banchory, Stranraer. Perth, Wigtown, Stewarty, Stonehaven, Keith, Peebles, Chipping and Shrewsbury.

Enjoy what’s left of your summer and remember. On the Continent the temperature has been soaring into the high thirties even the low forties. Which is far too hot. Damn, there’s no satisfying some people. Or is it that I am becoming a grumpy old(ish) man? Heaven forbid!

Extract from Mayhem. A Nick Hunter thriller

I guess there is still dare in the old (or is that oldish?) devil yet.

I’ve just been to Switzerland where I did a skydive. I leapt out of a perfectly sound airplane, plummeted for about 50 seconds – you know the position. Arms and legs extended, belly down, smile (or is that a grimace?) on the face. The chute opened, I dropped to a vertical position and sailed serenely towards the earth. I landed on my backside with my feet and legs in the air and slid along the ground to a halt.

Unlike Nick and Co, I did this in daylight, and was strapped to a professional skydiver.  Oh and I was not going to have to run 3 km on landing in order take out some deadly terrorists and rescue two hostages!

But since the jump, Dorothy insists on referring to me as “Nick”. If you are new to my books, Nick Hunter is the diving and bomb specialist in my TIFAT series of thrillers.

It was what I used to do. Except Nick Hunter is taller, tougher, better looking, traps the women a damn sight more easily than I did (before I met Dorothy – what did you think?) oh, and he’s also younger by about 3 decades.

Still, he’s the alter ego – in my head, that is.

Richard and I just before we set off

If skydiving is something you are considering then I can strongly recommend Skydive Switzerland.  The guys were professional, re-assuring and had a good sense of humour: “Hi Paul we’ve teamed you today with Dangerous Dave !!!”

As a 65^th birthday present from my sons Richard and Oliver, it was an exciting experience and great fun. Another objective ticked off my bucket list.

That’s all for now. Anarchy has just launched as a paperback and I have another thriller due pretty soon. When it’s published, I’ll be in touch. Hope to see you over the summer- I am out and about quite a bit. Next weekend (20th, 21st June) I am at the Bon Accord Steam Engine Club at Sauchen near Inverurie.  – Click here for my schedule

It also means wandering the UK appearing at events, doing the all important promotional work. So I’ll be travelling far and wide, from the north of Scotland to deepest South Wales and many places in between. My website shows where I will be and when. I have many more to add and should be finalising details by Easter.

The big news is that we are creating an audio book of A Million Tears. This is something Dorothy and I have been talking about for the last four years. Thanks to the incredible knowledge and ability of Philip Marno, the books producer, we should have the finished article in about 4 or 5 weeks. Philip has been amazing – without him we would have been lost.

The book is being narrated by …… ME ! Of course, like many people, I don’t like the sound of my own voice but I am told by the associate producer (Dorothy) that it works well.

When it’s available for download I’ll let you know.

Readers all over the world have been downloading my books via Kindle.  We have had a flurry of reviews on amazon.com for A Million Tears.  We plan to offer it as a FREE download over Easter. It is sitting at 98 reviews at the moment – we are wondering whether you could help us get this to over 100? Just click A Million Tears and write your comments. We would be very grateful. If you have already written a review then a huge thank you.  It makes a significant difference when we offer Kindle promotions

Anarchy is now typeset and the book cover has been designed. It should be available in paperback by the end of May at the latest.  I will do another blog when we are ready to take orders. 

I hope to see you sometime, somewhere, during my travels this Spring, Summer and Autumn. Just check the Book Signing schedule for dates and venues.

Happy Easter when it arrives.

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill was talking about the RAF and what we now know as the Battle of Britain, but it equally applies to our brave military across the ages. The First World War was so barbaric we thought it could never happen again in Europe. How wrong we were!

Two films I watch whenever they are on the television. The Longest Day and The Battle of Britain. There are moments in the films that I find incredibly moving. Such as when Lord Lovat and his Highlanders are marching to save a group of commandos who had captured an important bridge. The piper marching with the men is a sight that stirs my blood.

Then, in the Battle of Britain, the Polish squadron are in the air. They’re still undergoing training. German fighters appear and the Poles sheer off one by one to attack. They pretend their radio isn’t working so they ignore their instructor not to attack. What a moment!

I served 25 years as a Royal Naval officer between the RN and the RNR. I qualified as a Minewarfare and Clearance Diving Officer in the RN and over the years I met a number of Bomb Disposal Engineers from WW2. Their bravery was inspiring yet at the same time they showed humility for their achievements. When they told their stories – if you could get them to talk about them – it was always in an understated manner.

The field of poppies at the Tower of London is probably the finest tribute to our dead that I have seen. It is awesome as well as dreadful to think of the lives represented and the sacrifice made by men and women so that we are free today.

And what do politicians do? All words and no action when it comes to looking after the troops. But no surprise there.

On a totally different note we have put together some Christmas specials and also are offering a FREE download of A Million Tears today (16th Nov). Finally Dorothy has asked me to mention a great new book 60 Minute Business Transformation  by Martin Robertson.  Dorothy knows Martin and is so impressed by the book she is telling everyone about it.  If you are in business this is well worth a read.

In the run up to the referendum I diagnosed a new form of stress. We’ve all heard of PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, well Dorothy was suffering similar symptoms only not as severe.  It’s known as PRSD – Pre Referendum Stress Disorder. Luckily, now that the day has past, she is on the mend and should be back to her happy, jolly self quite soon. Hopefully, a week’s holiday in Switzerland will help.

As a celebration that the Union has been saved, this weekend we are offering free on Kindle both A Million Tears AND Mayhem.  The offer starts on Friday morning through to Sunday evening. Please tell your friends and contacts as it is a very special offer not to be repeated.

I’m frequently asked what’s coming next. Well, there’s a new Nick Hunter due out on e-books in about 3 weeks and in paperback in time for Christmas. We’ll let you know. I am also writing a new thriller. It’s different from my usual style as it is more political. I’m over halfway through and intend having it published before the next election.

That’s all folks. Happy reading and let’s hope for that this very pleasant autumn weather continues.