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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 expectations, the tour ends on a high and they sail halfway around the world chasing a long-dead pirate’s map. Once there, it seems as though they were safer on a decaying tour. Facing their ultimate challenge, it will take all of Cold Steel's talent to escape a fate of their own creating.
'Cold Steel on the Rocks is the heavy metal book the world needs to know about.' Goodreads.
'Music, I feel the book tells us, unites us and metal music motivates us. It’s a moral I think we can all take to heart.' We Love Metal.
'Heavy Metal and pirates in one novel? Yes, it's not only possible, it's a perfect match!' Goodreads.
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 improbable incident into another. They just want to meet their deadlines, but it seems that everyone else is out to stop it happening.
Can the band get the album recorded on time? Will it ever get released? And what will happen as their upcoming tour approaches? With friends and enemies in the most unlikely places, events unfold in a way that could only ever happen to Cold Steel.
We Are Cold Steel is the explosive sequel to Rick Brindle’s acclaimed novel, Cold Steel on the Rocks.
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 them a head start in the search for the missing treasure and they seize on their one chance to prove that even spoilt rock stars can actually do something for themselves.
At least, that’s their plan, and it puts Johnny Faslane in a race against time to find Cold Steel before they engineer the mother of all musical disasters.
And it’s not just the clock that Johnny has to fight. There are also two vengeful bands out for piece of Cold Steel, enraged mob family members and a reporter with a grudge.
It was never going to be easy, but now, is it even possible?
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 be a soldier.
In 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment.
But life in the Regiment was a world away from what he thought it would be, and it quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, the community he wanted to be a part of became more like a prison. Most people around him went along with the abuse. Some agreed with it, some joined in, while the chain of command routinely looked the other way.
Set over thirty years ago, this is a story of surviving abuse that still resonates today. It’s Not For Everyone is essential reading for anyone considering a military career. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and sometimes sickening, it’s one person’s unprecedented true story of life in the RAF Regiment.
Berkshire, England, and it’s no longer the promised land.
Ever since a species-wide illness wiped out nearly every human being, it’s 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 operate in ones and twos, 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 scavenged hormones, she’s stuck somewhere between the two, lost in the middle and hated by them all.
But she’s survived, and if what’s left of the world won’t leave her alone, maybe she can teach what’s left of the world to accept her.
Maybe.
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