Rick Brindle

It's Not For Everyone  get its first review on  goodreads  It's always great to read first hand feedback from my readers, and I take on board everything that gets said. In fact, a reader review of We Are Cold Steel brought Angie Dale into the third Cold Steel book. People power! All four of my books are now getting readers reviews, please keep them coming!   Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone  

  It's Not For Everyone  picks up a cheeky advert in  Private Eye Magazine. 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 for Rick it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, he 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. So in 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment, though, 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 alo...

Download  Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard  for free for a limited time. Cold Steel are back!   Their new album has just been released.   Their previously cancelled Spanish tour dates have been rearranged, with the female trio and Spain’s biggest metal band, Damas Infernales, supporting.   Cold Steel’s biggest asset though, is Johnny Faslane, their brutally talented manager.   But even Johnny can’t fully eliminate Cold Steel’s innate ability to spectacularly destroy their prospects, and even before their second concert ends, the tour is scrapped after an ill-advised trip back to the eighties, and the band are put into creative deep freeze by their record company.   Only an unprecedented event and a lot of money can possibly turn their fortunes around.   Like a five hundred year old treasure hoard that a long dead pirate once offered in return for his life, treasure that has never been found.   Cold Steel find a vital clue that gives th...

Heavy Mag  is currently hosting a great banner ad for my three Cold Steel novels. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone  

That's a good question. Lucy Penhalligan, the hard as nails and utterly ruthless head of the European arm of Ozone Records, and widely seen as Randall Spitz's right hand, possibly even his successor. She's a minor character in terms of her page-presence, but when she turns up, you'd better watch out! And while I'm not a director or producer, or even anything to do with the film industry, if it was up to me, I'd narrow the final audition down to Alicia Vikander and Simone Ashley. Either one of them would totally rock the role! Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone