Rick Brindle

  I'm really happy to announce that my newest novel,  Sister Alex , has just been published and is available to buy from Amazon. It's a post-apocalyptic story about trans woman Alex, and her fight for survival, and acceptance in a world that doesn't want her. Berkshire, England, and it’s no longer the promised land. Ever since a species-wide illness wiped out nearly every human being, the home counties have become a gender-based battlefield.   The women stick together as a single, cohesive community, but only as long as you’re a woman.   And it’s the same for the men, although they haven’t quite got the same group thing going, choosing instead to range as lone threats, taking what they want. Sometimes they team up and run in pairs, but only as long as you’re a man.   They’re separate tribes, and they hate each other on sight. Pick your gender, pick your side.   And then there’s Alex, born as a man, identifies as a woman, and thanks to a stash of sca...

  We Are Cold Steel , the second novel in the Cold Steel trilogy is now free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your free copy now! A day after their historic concert on the Caribbean island of St Clements, heavy metal band Cold Steel are heroes. Now, all they have to do is stay out of trouble and enjoy a well-earned holiday until they start work on their next album. Except that the owner of the recording studio hates all things Cold Steel. Except that Cold Steel’s record company has blackmailed the studio into accepting them. Except that not all reporters are as friendly as band manager Johnny Faslane’s girlfriend, Rachel Shaw. With a tight deadline, Cold Steel have to get the next album out before their tour starts. They can’t afford any delays, and Johnny has his work cut out keeping the band in line. Feral former soldiers, reporters with an agenda, cake-obsessed studio execs and international criminals all work their way into the mix as the band hurtle from one imp...

  The theory is to break up the shape and blend you in with the background. Some patter work better than others. The British military used DPM from the 60’s to about 2010. It was used in temperate and tropical operations. In the Gulf War, having sold their desert uniforms to Iraq four years earlier, the MOD quickly introduced desert DPM. The US used woodland pattern, very similar. The French used Camouflage Central Europe While the Germans used the super-cool Flecktarn Pixelated pattern came and quickly went My personal favourite is Rhodesian brush stroke. In recent years, there has been a move towards Multi-Terrain Pattern, which allows troops to use the same pattern for desert and temperate/tropical operations. Loads of research goes into the different patterns, but the theory remains the same, to break up the soldier’s shape and to blend him or her into the background. It's Not For Everyone Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard