Rick Brindle

  We Are Cold Steel , the second novel in the Cold Steel series, 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...

  Unless you’re in charge, probably not you. And back in my day, weapons-wise at least, it really wasn’t that complicated. You either got the SA80 Or the Light Support weapon (LSW). And if you were a knob, you moaned about it, and if you weren’t you just got on with it. So, in basics, you learned how to use both, but it was your Drill Corporal who decided which one you used, and you damn well did as you were told. And once you got posted to a squadron, it would be either your section commander or detachment commander, depending if you were posted to field or air defence, who decided which of the above you used. Gimpy? Well in my day, if you were field, one of these bad boys might become your personal weapon. Rapier squadrons had one per crew, but it was a team weapon as opposed to individual, in the ‘very rare’ event that the Rapier kit stopped working. Boys probably got bigger toys now, but way back when, section battle drills demanded that you fire a 66mm at the enemy position be...