I have had anything but a normal career going from graphic illustrator to Police Forensic Scene of Crime Examiner, before joining the French Foreign Legion. I joined the Legion at the tender young age of 38 and served for 11 years with the Legion Parachute Regiment based in Corsica. My autobiography 'Fighting For the French Foreign Legion' (Memoirs of a Scottish legionnaire) has now gone into its 3rd reprint. It is an honest attempt to show you the important role this unique force serves in todays troubled world.
The unique multi national, religious and secular composition of the Legion makes it the only true 'United Nations' force working for peace in the complex world we live in.
Having retired from active service when I was 50, I returned to my origional occupation of artist, but have now added a new career to my list by becoming an author.
My first novel 'Deadly Black Rain' has been released as an e-book on Amazon's Kindle Bookshop. It is about a special anti-terrorist unit called Taskforce Alpha which has been set up to fight modern terrorism. It is a multi-national, multi-religious, multi-lingual unit, which works independently from the recognised national security services of the participating nations. In many ways it is similar in its structure to the French Foreign Legion.
Fiction can sometimes be the best way of telling the truth.
I have just finished my second novel in the series which is called 'The Real Cost of Terror'. It has also been released as an e-book in the Kindle Bookshop. It continues where 'Deadly Black Rain' ended and deals with the actual problems and political upheaval of todays world.
I have just designed the cover for my next novel which I have called 'Taskforce Alpha Fight Back'. You can see the cover in my collection of images. I am now well into the story and it is right up to date with the current problems we are facing in the Middle East and northern Africa.
I hope you enjoy them all, and believe me these stories could be true. Perhaps they are!!
PLEASE, PLEASE, feel free to publish your reviews. They mean a lot to me, good or bad.
