THE BLOG IS BACK
My blog has had a bit of a rest recently as I’ve been concentrating on finishing the first draft of my novel, currently entitled: “Cowboys and Indians”.
For those of you who can read (this probably excludes most of our Facebook brethren) you can follow this link: http://www.authonomy.com/books/35262/cowboys-and-indians/ and read the first ninety pages on the Harper Collins website, Authonomy. Please feel free to leave a comment as I welcome advice and criticism.
Below is a synopsis of it with the “Strap line”.
Cowboys and Indians is a Black comedy set in South Armagh during the Troubles. Double agent "Fishknife" has one final assignment to perform to erase his past and pocket £5.5m.
John Harris has unique skills. Aged 17 and disaffected with life, he opts for a career as an IRA terrorist.
Diffident and cold, he soon becomes the perfect killing machine. Then he meets Ellen, the niece of the head of the PIRA and falls in love her. He is led to believe that she - and their child - were assassinated by Special Branch.
But when he finds out that he has been used and lied to, he “turns” and becomes a double agent working for the MI6 sanctioned Force Research Unit.
Given the codename “Fishknife”; his nom de plume becomes the harbinger for death and destruction across the province in a British Government sanctioned blood-fest.
But then the Good Friday Agreement makes him redundant. He passes the time in his native Derry working as a Life Coach for former terrorists, writing erotic fiction under a pseudonym and his Saturday nights as a ‘70s disco DJ.
And then he receives the phone call he has been waiting for.
To claim the £5.5 million in a Gibraltar bank account, he must assassinate Sir John Stephenson, whose report is about to reveal who he is and expose the depths to which the British Government sunk during The Troubles.
Before, that is, they can assassinate him.
Diffident and cold, he soon becomes the perfect killing machine. Then he meets Ellen, the niece of the head of the PIRA and falls in love her. He is led to believe that she - and their child - were assassinated by Special Branch.
But when he finds out that he has been used and lied to, he “turns” and becomes a double agent working for the MI6 sanctioned Force Research Unit.
Given the codename “Fishknife”; his nom de plume becomes the harbinger for death and destruction across the province in a British Government sanctioned blood-fest.
But then the Good Friday Agreement makes him redundant. He passes the time in his native Derry working as a Life Coach for former terrorists, writing erotic fiction under a pseudonym and his Saturday nights as a ‘70s disco DJ.
And then he receives the phone call he has been waiting for.
To claim the £5.5 million in a Gibraltar bank account, he must assassinate Sir John Stephenson, whose report is about to reveal who he is and expose the depths to which the British Government sunk during The Troubles.
Before, that is, they can assassinate him.
Well, that’s it folks!
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