Rick Brindle

  What do you do when your dream job turns into a nightmare? Rick Brindle was a third generation military child. His father and grandfather served their whole lives in the Army, and all he wanted to do was join up. But it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, Rick wanted to keep hold of the sheltered lifestyle that he’d enjoyed all through his childhood. Having left school, and after three years of trying and failing to become an officer in the Army, Rick was still determined to pursue a career in the armed forces. In 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment was a world apart from being a forces dependent, and Rick’s dream quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, the privileged community he wanted to be a part of became more like a prison. Most people around him went along with the abuse, agreed with it, and some even joined in, while the chain of command routinely looked t

  Cold Steel on the Rocks , the first installment of the Cold Steel series is free to download from Amazon for a short time When the pirate Blackbeard buried his treasure, he could never have imagined that it would fall to the heavy metal band, Cold Steel, to come looking for it. Cold Steel, high-octane British rockers who came close to legendary status, until the release of their fourth album, when their excesses send them spiralling into terminal decline. Struggling small-time band manager Johnny Faslane, in the right place at the right time, lands the dream job of managing Cold Steel, and then has the seemingly impossible mission of turning the band around.   Cold Steel’s singer, Maxwell Diabolo, claims to have a treasure map that he thinks will lead him to Blackbeard’s lost riches. With the band bent on a terrifying path of self- destruction, Johnny wonders if they will even complete the tour, much less get to the Caribbean to embark on a treasure hunt.   Against all expe