Rick Brindle

  Cold Steel on the Rocks , the first novel in the Cold Steel series, 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. Aga...

  Coming soon, Charlie Scudsen, An American President, a light hearted story about what might happen if the wrong person ever landed the top job. I'm doing a final read-thorough, following excellent editorial advice from @thewrite_advice and am aiming to publish in July 2026. All artwork credits go to Candescent Press. It’s November 2022, and the American people have chosen their next president. For over two centuries, that immovable four-yearly tradition has held. And because of it, American democracy is lauded around the world as a dependable, balanced and controlled institution.  And with the innate politeness that characterised American politics, even when one side disagreed with the other, everything was done in a civilised way. There was always a peaceful transfer of power, and once the election was done, the whole nation got behind their president. The whole world knew it, and the whole world admired it. Until Charlie Scudsen won The White House, and then everything ch...