Intervention

by Mike Rothery

PLEASE NOTE: This novel was previously published as The Waiting Pool.

After witnessing the shooting of his girlfriend, and then left by drug-smugglers to die on a deserted Caribbean island, Patrick Redman is rescued by US forces on their way to invade Grenada. Arriving in the war-zone, and despite fierce fighting on the island, Patrick takes the first opportunity to get ashore to try and seek justice for his murdered lover and find out what happened to their yacht. This action-filled sequel to ‘Return to Africa’ is a fast-moving thriller set in the early 1980’s against a background of political unrest, revolution and war.

309 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2015

About the author

I divide my time between working at my home in Elgin, cycling around the Highlands, and cruising the Atlantic/Caribbean islands in my yacht, Island Spirit. In past lives, I served twenty-five years in the Royal Navy and then another twenty as Director of a computer software company in the Midlands. Although I have written several novels since retirement, I consider To Run Before the Sea my first quality work. I am currently (Oct 2020) completing the sequel, The Travel Agent, to be released in December 2020. Several more Rosie Winterbourne stories will follow.

Bio: Mike Rothery was born in 1949, in Yorkshire, England, and lived his first ten years at various military bases in France, Germany and Northern Ireland. The family returned to Yorkshire when his father retired from the RAF in 1960. Mike joined the Royal Navy in 1965 and served in various ships until 1990, when he embarked on a new career in software development. Retiring in 2010 he returned to the sea where he began his writing career. He now cruises the oceans in his yacht, Island Spirit.