Rick Brindle

It's Not For Everyone  has just had a brilliant five-star review. Thanks to Steve 'Rocky' Regan for taking the time to write so much about my book, and huge respect to him for taking the same shit that I did, but being man enough to stick around and make a career out of it, which is more than I ever did.  Anyway, here's Steve's review in full. I have read the book now and It was a difficult read, as it brought back unwanted memories of a very dark time. It reminded me of all the sprog bashing, strange perverted sexual initiations that went on when I was an LAC. The problem was that in 1978, when I arrived fresh from basic training with 15 other sprog gunners, we were put into 12 man rooms that were stretched to over capacity by adding another bed to the top of bunk beds and guess who was shoved on the top bunks - the FNGs. I remember so called old sweats, who got drunk, banded together and randomly attacked any victim that presented themselves to them, or were unfor...

  My debut novel,  Cold Steel on the Rocks,  is free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your free copy now. 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 ex...