Rick Brindle

We Are Cold Steel , the second book in Rick Brindle's acclaimed Cold Steel trilogy, is free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your 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 fr...

Cold Steel on the Rocks , the first novel in the Cold Steel trilogy, 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 al...

The Cold Steel trilogy is being advertised in this month's Decibel Magazine. Order one or all three from Amazon! Buried pirate treasure, concerts that affect world events, studio owners with a grudge, feral ex-soldiers, criminal gangs and separatists, godfathers and aristocrats are all thrown into the mix. Life in a metal band is never dull, and you can read about all of that with Cold Steel! Cold Steel on the Rocks   We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone  

The eagle-eyed among you will have seen that 'the players' page at the front of  Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard  described the Damas Infernales as Belles Infernales. This has now been corrected. Apologies to readers with early editions, I hope it didn't detract from your reading enjoyment. 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 fi...

It's Not For Everyone  is free to download to your kindle for a limited time. Get yours now, and stand by for a good queening! 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 join up. But for Rick it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, he wanted to keep hold of the sheltered lifestyle that he’d enjoyed all through his childhood. Having left school, and after three years of trying and failing to become an officer in the Army, Rick was still determined to pursue a career in the armed forces. So in 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment, though, was a world apart from being a forces dependent, and Rick’s dream quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, the privileged community he wanted to be a part of became more like ...

It's Not For Everyone  is advertised in September 2022's edition of  Soldier Magazine 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 join up. But for Rick it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, he wanted to keep hold of the sheltered lifestyle that he’d enjoyed all through his childhood. Having left school, and after three years of trying and failing to become an officer in the Army, Rick was still determined to pursue a career in the armed forces. So in 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment, though, was a world apart from being a forces dependent, and Rick’s dream quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, the privileged community he wanted to be a part of became more like a prison. Most people around him wen...

It's Not For Everyone  get its first review on  goodreads  It's always great to read first hand feedback from my readers, and I take on board everything that gets said. In fact, a reader review of We Are Cold Steel brought Angie Dale into the third Cold Steel book. People power! All four of my books are now getting readers reviews, please keep them coming!   Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone