It is 1974 and a reluctant Jamie Raeburn (Archangel Michael Messenger) is brought back from the dead to save the life of an IRA informer and prevent a major terrorist attack on the UK Mainland. It is a job he cannot refuse - the informer is the man who saved his life on his last fateful mission less than a year earlier. That weighs heavily on him. And his task becomes more difficult when it is revealed that the life of a former lover hangs in the balance. That sets Jamie on a collision course with Ultra. Facing an intractable dilemma, he follows his conscience to save that life. The planned terrorist attack is the most serious ever contemplated on the United Kingdom Mainland but it is worse than even the men behind it realise. They are being manipulated and the consequences, if the attack is a success, will be cataclysmic. But who is behind it, and why? In a race against time, Jamie has to identify and eliminate the three IRA Active Service Units and their commander, the beautiful but dangerous Orlagh Duggan. And Orlagh might hold the key to an unsolved mystery – the identity of the mole behind Jamie’s betrayal. Can Jamie succeed?
What can I say and where do I start? Well, I suppose this is the place where you blow your own trumpet...but I'm a little uncomfortable with that, so let's just stick to facts.
Okay, I'm a "baby boomer", born in 1947, so I'm no spring chicken but I suppose the upside is that I've gained plenty, and I mean plenty, of experience. Various jobs...I started as a trainee metallurgist, became an engineer, production supervisor, stock control manager, and all before going to University to study Law at the tender age of 27. I then spent almost 30 years practising as a lawyer in Scotland before retiring. Add to all of that the fact that I have been a bus driver, beer salesman, book seller, double glazing salesman, taxi driver and wine merchant and you see where the experience comes from.
I see writing as a natural extension to my career as lawyer but I wish I had started writing earlier...it's much more fun!
My first novel, The Janus Complex, was published on Amazon in August 2013 and is the first book of a trilogy - Dark Secrets. The second book, Archangel, is well under way and I am hoping that it will be available on Amazon by January/February 2014. I am also working on another book, Web of Evil, and this too should be completed for publication in early 2014. The plan thereafter is to concentrate on book three of the Dark Secrets Trilogy which will be published under the working title of Redemption.
If you have paid me the compliment of reading this to the end, I thank you. Hopefully, you will like what my writing offers too.