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I'm in my early fifties. Why does that matter? I only just got married for the first time at 50. I'd had a relationship that ended some ten years before that has lasted 19 years. It should probably have lasted 10.

So there we are sat on the plane to San Francisco for our honeymoon staying with some wonderful friends and the film on offer is the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. If you don't know, it's basically about getting old but still having the ability to realise you have time to make a change, achieve something, do something while you still have a chance.

For the rest of the journey we sat and discussed what would happen if I gave my job up in four months time and did what I always wanted to do, start writing. I might not be good at it. It m I'm in my early fifties. Why does that matter? I only just got married for the first time at 50. I'd had a relationship that ended some ten years before that has lasted 19 years. It should probably have lasted 10.

So there we are sat on the plane to San Francisco for our honeymoon staying with some wonderful friends and the film on offer is the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. If you don't know, it's basically about getting old but still having the ability to realise you have time to make a change, achieve something, do something while you still have a chance.

For the rest of the journey we sat and discussed what would happen if I gave my job up in four months time and did what I always wanted to do, start writing. I might not be good at it. It might be rubbish, it's certainly different to 22 years in the Automotive industry working at head office level for companies like Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Jaguar-Land Rover.

If you don't try you'll never know. So here I am hoping to impress you first time out.

I am a bit of an historian, I spent much of my spare time from age 7 reading about the cold war, the Nazis, politics and real life history. I had this juvenile mantra - Fiction isn't fact and I don't have time to to read something that isn't going to tell me something. When you're young you can be like that. In fact I read so much, studied so much I really did become something of an expert. Our library is vast and there isn't much about the 20th Century I couldn't tell you.

In my work I had the extraordinary fortune to meet some incredibly famous people, from politicians to actors, billionaires and authors. Some were every bit as you'd imagine, some were worse than you could possibly have conceived, but my boss once said "remember we are only here because of our jobs, not who we are". Nonetheless it provided a wealth of experience and one or two I still have contact with today.

I'm not afraid to say my books are probably a good holiday read, they're not some sweeping tome of immense literary merit, God forbid it were that, but I hope you enjoy them, if you smiled once that would make me happy. Laugh out loud and I'll be ecstatic!

I don't have any personal agendas in my books, other than that I might inadvertently educate you in one way or another, to the often extraordinary and amazing things people will do for vanity, power and money - as well as for peace and tranquillity. Wherever possible I have been to most - if not all - of the places in the books, even lived in France - to make sure that the locations, the facts are all quite real, even if the characters are amalgams of dozens of people I have met along the way.

One thing you do need to know. The Templar Horse is actually quite real. It was a staggering discovery. It was the driving force behind this book. Nobody wants to know about it, the scholars, the specialists won't even look. That's why the subject revolves around it.One day I may even right a scholarly thesis on the subject!

I hope you enjoy reading Jake Sheridan's adventures and his rather odd life as much as I enjoy writing about it.

Book 2, Honours Amongst Thieves came about after a heated but fascinating discussion on the subject of Scottish independence - and what would happen if they chose a monarchy of their own. Entirely theoretical, but it opened up a huge landscape to widen, deepen and delve into the depths of so much more, as well as tie up some plot lines from Book 1. It isn't the subject of the mystery, just the catalyst that drove it!

Book 3, Blood Red Moon, is designed to move the pace along, to concentrate just on the location that Jake has adopted as his home and develop this love/hate character more. I've tried to use some new literary devices to drive the plot and create a deeper mystery where you the reader are coming to your own conclusions.The end surprised me when it was written, as it will you, but it is, (and readers tell me so), the right thing to do as we head ...more

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Average rating: 4.4 · 25 ratings · 8 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Sons of Earth Saga Book 1: Nemesis 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Templar Paradox (The Jake Sheridan Mysteries, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SONS OF EARTH SAGA BOOK 2: DAMOCLES 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honours Amongst Thieves (The Jake Sheridan Mysteries #2) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Red Moon (The Jake Sheridan Mysteries #3) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sons of Earth Saga Book 3: Nimrod it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SONS OF EARTH SAGA BOOK 4: IANOS it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SONS OF EARTH SAGA BOOK 5: KAIROS 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars