Your Comeuppance
Book Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5qCZvc42pUThe Story Behind This Book
I had taken a break from pulling together my first novel, The AQALAN Initiative, when a number of external bugger-factors were affecting the storyline. Osama bin Laden, for example, could no longer appear in the present tense and neither could two live Bee Gees nor Sevi Ballesteros. I´ve mentioned Cliff Richard a couple of times … so I´m keeping my fingers crossed that nothing happens to him. Anyway … while I contemplated my navel on the somewhat fluid nature of my first book I decided to start work on the second. I remember sitting in Shamrocks Irish bar in Madrid watching England trying to play football (soccer) at the 2010 World Cup. The match against Algeria was typical of the lacklustre performance we´d come to expect of a bunch of over-paid losers who make the headlines for all the wrong reasons. These so-called professionals are an embarrassment. They fail abysmally and consistently in their (not so important) trade, yet while millions suffer from the ravages of a deepening recession these guys still hold onto their jobs and continue to pull in the multi-million pound salaries, match bonuses and image rights. But this betrayal of English pride and reputation for fair play doesn´t stop at football. Add the charming Sir Fred Goodwin, a plethora of tax-cheating multi-nationals, a multitude of grasping officials and a whole host of disagreeable figures who grace our media headlines … and we´ve got a significant layer of slime choking the air from our otherwise green and pleasant land. From this background of big business cheats and the rise – and silent acceptance – of sub-class chavness, I just had to vent my spleen through the power of the keyboard. Thus the birth of Your ComeUppance.