Twenty Seconds of Madness

The David Thomas Adventures #1

by David Thomas

Relocating from Liverpool to a suburb of Glasgow is enough to turn the world of an 11-year-old boy upside down. He felt he’d lost everything but couldn’t have been more wrong – there was just one fly in the ointment; his step-father.The honeymoon period north of the border was relatively short lived and after a disastrous period in the Royal Navy, David and his mum found themselves back in Liverpool with nothing but each otherIn the midst of Thatcher’s England, life in the city was a struggle. The offer of illegal work enticed him into the adventurous and occasionally terrifying world of drug smuggling. Success in his first venture to Jamaica brought more offers of illicit jobs and a whole new world of opportunity opened up.An entrepreneur with a difference; money, adventure, risk-taking and triumph spurred him on until nothing else mattered; he was living the dream but embroiled in a life style that sucked him in to the point of no return.Tragedy, skulduggery, a passionate love affair in a foreign country, courage, stupidity and sex - this book tells the story of a young man’s rise to relative riches in 1980's England.

448 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2015

About the author

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David Thomas (2^): GR author, historical books about Camborne, Cornwall, England
David Thomas (3^): anthologies, mostly horror
David Thomas (4^): British professor specializing in Christian-Muslim relations
David Thomas (5^): GR author who collaborates on autobiographies
David Thomas (6^): art
David Thomas (7^): math and other educational books
David Thomas (8^): Director of Family Counseling at Daystar Counseling
David Thomas (9^): GR author, memoirs that are vastly different
David Thomas (10^): Theatre & Performance Studies
David Thomas (11^): French poetry
David Thomas (12^): Australian history professor
David Thomas (13^): Former name of Tom Cain, now Diana Thomas
David Thomas (14^): Poet who is a mental health worker from Ohio
David Thomas (15^): British archivist
David Thomas (16^): American, The Ethics of Human Development
David Thomas (17^): musician,lead singer of Pere Ubu
David Thomas (18^): Poet from Michigan, goes by “King David”
David Thomas (19^): cookbooks
David Thomas (20^): children’s books about animals from 1940s-1960s
David Thomas (21^): Welsh, non-fiction
David Thomas (22^): GR author of Worst Wizard
David Thomas (23^): GR author, “micro-fiction”
David Thomas (24^): GR author of the Michael Manners Dream Sequence series
David Thomas (25^): books about the tango
David Thomas (26^): GR author of Luna
David Thomas (27^): books about narcissism
David Thomas (28^): “The Art of Personal Spiritual Warfare” series of books
David Thomas (29^): Dutch children’s books
David Thomas (30^): bee keeping
David Thomas (31^): riddle books
David Thomas (32^): The Night Hunters series
David Thomas (33^): books from 1910s-1940s about typesetting
David Thomas (34^): Print on Demand books
David Thomas (35^): English to ... dictionaries
David Thomas (36^): American retired videogame critic
David Thomas (37^): adult